A320
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Other / Unknown
ATC Issue All Types
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Procedure; Chart Or Publication
It appears that the vast majority of the PDC's now includes the clearance to 'climb via SID'; yet so many SID's have that altitude clearance written in small font buried someplace on the page. In other cases the altitude clearance on the SID is somewhat confusing as in the LAS SHEAD 8. This is just an incident waiting to happen.  If ATC is going to put this on our back then the altitude on the SID should be more conspicuous.
A320 Captain laments the altitude restrictions burried in the routing section; in small font; in many of the new RNAV SID's.