I designed 18 clean, 1920x1080 lyric and announcement slides in Figma this week for our Thursday youth service, and I’m releasing the files for any church to use — beauty in service of the Word. Download (Figma + PNGs) here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WORSHIPSLIDES and use freely; no attribution needed.
Used a similar set last month — “beauty in service of the Word” indeed; add a 6–8% safe margin in Figma because projectors love to nibble edges, and consider #111 instead of pure black to reduce banding — did you include safe guides in the file?
On our Thursday youth service, I add a barely-there shadow to lyric text in Figma (0, 2, 12, 20%) so it stays readable over motion backgrounds. If your projector blooms, skip the shadow and use a thin 10–15% black bar behind the lines instead — thanks for the “Figma + PNGs” share.
Love this — since you’re sharing Figma files, one thing that’s saved me is duplicating the file and converting all text to “outlines” (Shift+Cmd/Ctrl+O) on a separate page so teams without the fonts can export clean 1920x1080 PNGs. Only catch: outlines aren’t editable, so keep the original text layers too.
Quick tip from our install: many projectors still crop the edges, so I keep lyrics inside a 5–7% ‘safe area’ with guides in Figma. If your screens are perfectly mapped you can push it wider, but this has saved us from ‘Hosanna’ turning into ‘Hosann’ more than once.
And i’ve had better readability than shadows by giving lyrics a 1px stroke (black at about 18%) in Figma, @michael7935, which keeps edges clean over bright motion. If a projector’s sharpening makes the stroke look crunchy, bump the font to semi‑bold and +1% letter spacing instead.
One thing that’s helped me with 1920x1080 slides is adding a super‑light monochrome noise layer (about 1–2% opacity) over gradients in Figma to kill projector banding; it keeps lyrics crisp without bulky shadows. If you’re using flat colors you can skip it, but for those “beauty in service of the Word” gradients it’s made a big difference.