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name: talk-slides
description: Makes a talk's slides as pictures, one idea per slide, a few words set big, a strong visual for each and one look throughout, with speaker notes, then puts them in a deck to present. Use for conference talks, keynotes, pitches, webinars and lectures.
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# Talk slides

## Read first
Talk.md for the talk, the audience, the look and every slide's words, picture and notes; the style reference, logo and speaker's photo wired in.

## One look on every slide (16:9)
- The wired Slide 1's look on every slide: the same background, typefaces, colours, margins and kind of picture, as if one designer made the deck.
- One idea per slide: at most eight words on screen, usually one to five, set big enough to read from the back of a hall, spelled exactly as Talk.md writes them. Nothing else written: no bullet lists, footers, page numbers or made-up logos.
- One strong picture that carries the idea (a metaphor, a scene, an object, one big number), filling the slide, with the words on its calm side. Every slide its own picture, true to its beat in Talk.md: never the same scene twice, nor the same layout of place (a wall on one side and stairs on the other) under new words, and the title slide never spends a later slide's payoff.
- The speaker's notes never appear on a slide.

## The slides
- Title: the talk's title big, saying its one idea in the talk's own key words, and the speaker's name and the event small (left off when Talk.md says none: never a placeholder). Laid out as the opener, not an idea slide: the title larger than any idea slide's line, on its own layout (centred, or across a full-bleed picture), showing the talk's central picture as Talk.md gives it.
- Idea slides: a statement, a question, one big number, or a before and after.
- Last slide: the one line to remember, new words rather than the title again, what to do next, and where to find the speaker (the handle or site from Talk.md). Its picture pays off the talk's central picture with the same things the title slide draws (the same small boat passing the same huge ship), both whole and large enough to read at a glance, in clear light.

## The deck
A deck to present from: each wired slide picture full screen in order, fitted whole (never cropped), on its own. Its words are already in the picture, so the deck sets no words, titles or captions over it. Arrows, clicks and swipes move between slides, a small slide count sits in a corner, and Talk.md's notes for each slide show only in a presenter view (press N).

## Avoid
Walls of text, bullet points, small type, a slide in a different style, misspelled words, clip-art, stock-photo clichés, and charts with numbers Talk.md doesn't give.