Research Guides: Social Work: Poster Making Resources

Poster Making Resources

There are lots of resources on campus to help with creating & presenting poster! Here are a few:

SOWK Poster Tips
**SUPER HELPFUL tips created by your professors to help you through the poster making process!
Canva Digital Poster Guide
Step by Step instructions for creating a digital poster using Canva!
Basics of Poster Design
Guidance choosing colors, fonts, and layout.
Copyright Basics
From the United States Copyright Office, 2017

JMU Communication Center
Learn skills to enhance your presentations, including how to talk about your work and create data visualizations!
JMU Print Services
Send your poster here to be printed!

Use this guide to find license-free media to include without copyright restrictions in your poster! Includes images, fonts, and icons:

Free Media for Creative Use
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High Contrast Color Palettes for Accessibility

Color Safe
Color Safe provides accessible color palettes based on WCAG Guidelines of text and background contrast ratios. Simply enter a background color, and determine the styling of your text.
Color Contrast Checker
The color contrast checker will determine if colors you are already using for background and text are WCAG compliant. Enter an RGB foreground and background color in #hex or integer format to see if it meets accessibility standards.
Coolors
Use the generator to generate complementary color schemes for your infographic. The color blindness feature allows users to preview what the color selection will look like for people with various types of colorblindness.
Adobe Color Wheel
Choose a color to start with, and the color palette generator will produce four additional colors that complement one another. Save the palette if you have an Adobe Creative Cloud account, or write down the hex codes to use with another tool. Adobe Color can also identify colors used in an image if you upload it under the "Extract Gradient" tab.

Infographic Templates

Infographics can be fun and engaging ways of presenting content in a more visual way. These sites have easy-to-use templates if you want to add one to your poster!

Canva
With thousands of professional templates, images and quality content to choose
Piktochart
Empowering people around the globe to tell powerful visual stories that matter.
Venngage
an infographic template to suit your specific needs.