I also like those backgrounds that are busy and vibrant as long as they fit the tempo of the song.

In the total antithesis and to get really freaky, you’ll lose some legibility LEFT justify a week…very nice.

Jordan: I agree about centering in graphic design – for me though anything but centered for lyrics looks odd, my opinion. I’ll talk about backgrounds in the upcoming articles. I like always using the same font because it almost “brands” the worship time – whereas in other areas we use multiple fonts, like in our lower third sermon points, ministry ads, etc. But I just like the songs to always look familiar. And I agree about comic sans… ew.

Debby: nice point – uniform look helps drive home the point…

Mandy: I know, Free stuff in our line of work is rare!

what software is used here?

it is the first thing all designers do and they mock layouts using that dreaded font

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as a graphics designer i would kill the centering if you look in applied arts or communicative arts at all the winning layouts the trend of moment is to not center very often

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i would use a subtle non-moving background to reinforce the metaphor that will be communicated through the word preached very subtle of course

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mix it up. we did an ancient feeling series and so we used a reformational printing pressed look including large initial cap on each slide and press fonts

(have i made the case to sometimes use punctuation sometimes at least)

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