Deck font is way too small
Eran Gilad
Has anyone at Gamma ever given a presentation? I mean, seriously - you can't put a ton of text in a small font on a slide. This is not how a presentation should look like. Nobody can read that, and nobody wants to read a ton of text when someone's giving a talk. I just don't understand how such weird product decisions are made at Gamma. It's presentations best practices 101 - don't place a lot of text on the slides. It's not a paper, it's a visual aid.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Totally fair callout, and sorry the default deck typography is making your slides feel unreadable. I’ll pass this along to the team. Quick couple questions so we can pin down what “too small” means in your setup: 1) which theme/template were you using and what kind of content (bullets, paragraphs, tables)? 2) where are you presenting (in-app present mode, exported PDF, Google Slides, etc) and roughly what screen/room size?
Eran Gilad
Nik Payne (Gamma design) I've built a presentation using Gamma about a year ago, and the font issue was really annoying back then as well. I was hoping you've figured this out by now, since I want to extend my talk soon. I checked out your templates now and came across one that seemed appropriate - "Code-Inspired Slides for Dev & Tech Decks". Looking at the template, it's clear to me that its creator has never, ever, given a technical talk, and I seriously doubt they've ever seen a half-decent technical talk. Just look at the text in this template - is that amount and size appropriate for a presentation? Is that the best you can offer?
I'm annoyed by this because I was hoping to use Gamma again, this time with a better experience than on my previous attempt (which required way more work than getting the same results with google slides or powerpoint). Seeing this template made me realize that I'm stuck - using Gamma again will be tedious, and using another tool will be a waste of all the work I've invested in my Gamma presentation. And the most annoying part is that the issues I'm talking about are product issues, not technical ones. They're old and they're fixable.