When we sing, we’re singing poetry; and the idea behind the poetry is too often lost without the appropriate punctuation. Too, it can be difficult to learn a new song without the proper punctuation. During a recent worship conference, we were singing a song that was new to most of the congregation. One particular point in the refrain kept giving everyone trouble because there was a repeated word. The word was an important one, and without punctuation to set it apart, it took us a long time to get that line down.

To those ends, I always make sure the punctuation is as accurate as I possibly can. The benefits of doing that far outweigh the time saved in not doing so and the message of the song is much easier to grasp.

Btw, I have used Papyrus in the background and I thought they looked fantastic! I use an outline and a shadow to give extra contrast and make the text as big as I can without it “screaming” at the congregation.

Thank you for articles.

Treb has been reckoned to be a good font for dyslexics & visually impaired people.

For background, by default we use a ’steve jobs’ grey to black fade (so every service can be an apple keynote

for me with a smaller screen verdana has been the perfect font.

Also Looped backgrounds can get overboard if you have a super zealous video person.

I like to intermingle video with image backgrounds

i also like to emphasize some text with one slide for a word or doing one word in all caps.