How many palm cards should a speech have?
There is no fixed number, but a useful rule is one idea per card. An introduction, three main points and a conclusion gives you five cards before you add quotes or evidence. If your teacher sets a limit, write key words rather than full sentences so each card carries more of the speech.
The calculator assumes you are putting the full text on the cards, so treat the result as the most you would need. Cutting the speech down to prompts usually halves the count. Our guide to writing cue cards shows how.
Choosing a card size
The four sizes match the presets in the editor's Layout panel. Palm cards fit comfortably in one hand and suit school speeches. Cue cards hold about twice as much and are easier to read at a lectern. Large cue cards suit a full script read at a desk, and small cards work for vocabulary and revision prompts. For exact measurements in millimetres and inches, see cue card sizes.
The characters per card are estimates for a comfortable reading size. Larger text means fewer characters per card, so lower the number if you plan to print in a big font.