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Designing for Television

There was an excellent article written by Jim Heid for MacWorld about designing for television. He wrote about the differences between TV monitors and computer monitors, and gave excellent tips to ensure that your design doesn't flicker when viewed on a TV. The article was written in 1996, so we weren't able to find it online. Here are some of the main ideas:

• Create your design using a program that can anti-alias text and has an option for NTSC standard TV colors.
• Make lines at least 4 pixels and not an odd number of pixels.
• Kerning needs to be loose.
• Use at least 14 point type.
• Don't use thin fonts, serif fonts, or ones that have variation in thickness.
• Don't place an important element at the edge as TVs spread pixels beyond the edges of the screen.
• Proof your design on an NTSC monitor.

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