Font sizes are too small
Raul Alfredo Tello
A presentation is not always projected on an appropriate screen, often available walls and even on a smart TV are used. In these cases, having an appropriate font size makes a difference, this could be added to the card configuration, I think that the option available in this regard is not enough to achieve an appropriate display of the content of the presentation.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
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The words in PPT always small
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Sally LO
I always use a lot of time to adjust the content of word size. Actually, the heading's size is okay. Please advise. Thanks for your attention.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Hey Sally LO, thanks for calling this out. Quick couple questions so we can pass something actionable to the team: 1) Is this happening after you export to PPT, or are the words already small inside Gamma before export? 2) Which text is too small (body text, bullets, captions), and does it happen on specific layouts or pretty much every slide? If you can share a screenshot of an example slide (and the exported PPT version if that’s where it shows up), that’d help a ton.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
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Minimum Font Size as a Funtion
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Rene Nachtsheim
Gamma is often producing slides with a Font size below 14 even if there is enough space on the slide. For me it is feels random what kind of font size is used. Sometimes its working quite good. Change the setting in the page setup does also not work. Is there a function where you change font size for all slides? I attached an example were the font size is really small
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Nik Payne (Gamma design)
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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.
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Todd Overbeek
Avoid size 8 font...think more like 18 and up... I often go through the slides and enlarge the font, taking advantage of lots of white space. ...but this is excellent technology. Keep up the improving work!
Rob Moreira
inclusive, isto atrapalha na hora de editar o slide em um programa como power point. Esse problema acontece com qualquer texto gerado nos slides pelo Gamma. o Tamanho global deveria ser no mínimo 14 ou 16.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Thanks for the screenshot and the super clear writeup, Rene Nachtsheim. Totally get how annoying it is when the font size feels random and dips below what’s readable even when there’s space.
I’ll pass this along to the team. Quick couple questions so we can pin down the right fix:
1) Is this happening mostly when Gamma is generating slides from pasted content (like tables), or also when you’re manually editing text blocks?
2) When it goes below 14, is it usually a specific element type (table text, captions, body text), or basically anything on the slide?
And just to confirm, what minimum size would you want as a global setting (14, 16, etc.)?
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.
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Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Eran Gilad: Would love to pick your brain on this more! Please grab some time on my calendar if you're interested:
Font sizes in Gamma are kinda complex. We have a base size in themes, s/m/l in page setup, a 'scale to fit' option that shrinks fonts as you add more content, and we do some shrinking at export time—so figuring out how to solve this has been a bear.
We're a small team doing our best, and this problem hasn't been prioritized but it's on our radar. But you can help!
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Désolée, mais Gamma est en train de perdre en qualité
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Sophie Bertin
Depuis début 2025, je suis une très grande fan de Gamma, je l'ai recommandé à tous.
Mais depuis quelques semaines, je remarque une baisse de qualité très nette. Les fonctionalités ne sont plus de la même qualité, les prompts délivrent de la qualité médiocre, et les templates avec les couleurs ne sont pas suivi. Donc je passe beaucoup de temps à essayer d'arranger, mais sans succès. Et depuis que d'autres (y compris Claude et notebookLM) sont capables de créer des présentations et pages web de très grande qualité, franchement, je me pose la question pourquoi continuer avec Gamma. C'est dommage, car j'ai adoré Gamma pendant des mois, mais maintenant, je vois une dégradation nette. Est-ce que Gamma va faire quelque chose???
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