Riginica

If you must  have a table on your poster, look into what options you have for your numbers. Many fonts have number variants. Proportional numbers have skinny numbers (e.g., 1) and wide numbers (e.g., 0). Two numbers differ in width depending on what numbers they have.…

Microsoft Publisher is my go to software package for making posters. It hits a sweet point for me between power and ease of use. I recently found another reason to use Publisher: it lets you in to a whole new realm of type you might not have known existed. Many profess…

Inkscape is a free software that creates vector-based illustrations. As such, it’s the freeware answer to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW . Inkscape has been on my radar for some time, but I hadn’t had a chance to sit down and use it seriously until the second #SciF…

Today’s contribution come from Ian Haydon , who is kind enough to share it with us. Click to enlarge! Ian writes: The attached poster won best in show at my departmental retreat last week. I think why this took best poster was that two of the judges commented that I “t…