Content and design
Making screens people can read from across the room, and building content that's quick to change.
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Designing for screens: text size, contrast and viewing distance
How big to make text on a venue screen, which colour pairs stay readable across a room, and how to check a design from where customers stand.
Content and design · 6 min read
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How long should each slide stay on screen?
How many seconds to give each slide on a venue screen, how long the whole loop should run, and where to set the timings in Casty playlists and layouts.
Content and design · 5 min read
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Image and video sizes for HD and 4K screens
The pixel sizes to use for images and video on HD and 4K screens, wide or portrait, plus the file types to choose and how to stop pictures looking soft.
Content and design · 5 min read
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Keeping your brand consistent across sites with shared playlists
How to keep screens on brand across several sites with shared playlists, templates, your own fonts and locked spots, while each venue adds local content.
Content and design · 5 min read
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Layouts, playlists and campaigns: how screen content fits together
What layouts, playlists and campaigns are in Casty, how they fit together with the media library and the schedule, and when to use each one.
Content and design · 5 min read
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Making screen content accessible to more people
How to make venue screens easier for more people to read: bigger text, strong contrast, enough time per slide, captions on video and sensible screen heights.
Content and design · 5 min read
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Showing live data on screens with datasets
How Casty datasets keep fixtures, class times, events and price lists up to date on screen, typed in, imported from a CSV file or fetched from a web address.
Content and design · 5 min read
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Starting from templates: good screens without a designer
How to get good-looking venue screens from templates: choosing a starting point, adding your own photos, fonts and colours, and saving your own templates.
Content and design · 5 min read
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Tickers, news and RSS feeds on screens
How to add a scrolling ticker or news headlines to venue screens with RSS feeds, run it over other content as an overlay and keep it easy to read.
Content and design · 4 min read
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Video or still images: what works on venue screens
When to use video and when still images work better on venue screens, how to mix the two, and the formats, sound and file sizes to watch.
Content and design · 5 min read
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Writing words for screens: say less, say it bigger
How to write words for venue screens that people read at a glance: one message per slide, the important fact first, and plain wording cut right down.
Content and design · 5 min read
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