Marp Slide Creation Best Practices

Marp Slide Creation Best Practices

Guidelines for creating "cool" high-quality slides.

Slide Titles (h2)

✅ Good Examples

• Concise: About 5-7 characters
• Clear: Content is immediately understandable
• Consistent: Use the same style at the same hierarchy level

## Introduction
## Problem
## Solution
## Results

❌ Bad Examples

## In this section we will explain the introduction
## What are the challenges we are facing

Bullet Points

✅ Good Examples

• 3-5 items: Not too many
• Concise: About 15-25 characters per line
• Parallel: Same grammatical structure at the same level

- Simple and easy to understand
- Unified design
- Effective information delivery

❌ Bad Examples

- This is a very long explanation that doesn't fit on one line and becomes difficult to read
- Short
- The next item is in sentence format. This lack of uniformity makes it hard to read.

Slide Structure

Basic Structure

1. Title Slide (<!-- _class: lead -->)

   • Title
   • Presenter name
   • Date

2. Agenda Slide

   • Show overall flow
   • About 3-5 items

3. Content Slides

   • 1 slide = 1 message
   • Title summarizes content

4. Summary Slide

   • Reconfirm key points
   • Words of thanks

Recommended Slide Count

• 5-minute presentation: 5-8 slides
• 10-minute presentation: 10-15 slides
• 20-minute presentation: 15-25 slides

Text Amount

✅ Good Balance

## Product Features

- High-speed processing
- Intuitive UI
- Highly extensible design

❌ Too Crowded

## About the Product

This product was developed using the latest technology.
The main features include the following 7 points:
- Feature 1: Detailed explanation continues at length...
- Feature 2: Even more detailed explanation...
(Continued)

Using Whitespace

• Adequate whitespace: Don't cram too much information
• Visual guidance: Layout that naturally draws eyes to important information
• Breathing room: Appropriate "pauses" between slides

Using Colors

Leverage colors defined in the theme:

• Background color: #f8f8f4 (light beige)
• Text color: #3a3b5a (dark navy)
• Heading color: #4f86c6 (blue)
• Accent color: #000000 (black)

When Using Additional Colors

<span style="color: #c62828;">Important point</span>

Use sparingly and avoid excessive decoration.

Using Images

Effective Usage

• Clear purpose: To aid understanding, not just decoration
• High quality: Use high-resolution images
• Appropriate size: Neither too large nor too small

Layout Tips

# Text on left, image on right
![bg right:40%](image.png)

- Point 1
- Point 2

Font Size Guidelines

Defined in the theme:

• h1: 56px (title slide only)
• h2: 40px (regular slide titles)
• h3: 28px (subheadings)
• Body text: 22px

Animations and Transitions

Marp does not support animations by default. Focus on simple slide transitions.

Checklist

After completing slides, verify:

• Are titles concise (5-7 characters)?
• Are bullet points 3-5 items?
• Is it 1 slide = 1 message?
• Is the text amount appropriate?
• Is there sufficient whitespace?
• Are images used effectively?
• Is there overall consistency?
• Is the slide count appropriate?