Clean and Simple Beamer Presentation Template

This repository provides a clean and simple template for presentations made with the LaTeX beamer package. The design is based on the metropolis theme.

It is highlighted by many guides on good slide design that slides should contain no clutter and as few objects as possible. Jean-luc Doumont says the following about slide templates in his talk about Creating effective slides:

A template is a way to specify where the content should come and how the content should look once it comes there.
As long as you don't have content, there should be nothing.

Usage/Installation

Simply copy all of the files into a new folder or click on "Use this template" on GitHub.

The file presentation.tex is the main file that needs to be compiled. It is recommended to use lualatex, if you want to use the Fira fonts that are the default fonts in the metropolis theme.

Requirements

Make sure that you have a LaTeX installation on your computer, which includes the metropolis theme. It should be included in every popular LaTeX distribution like TeX live or MiKTeX.

If you want to use the Fira fonts, you need to install them on your machine first.

Customization

Colors

The template allows an easy customization of the colors and styles according to your needs. In particular, you only need to edit the color definitions in the setup-colors.tex file.

There are four colors in this theme which you can adjust to your needs:

\definecolor{accent}{HTML}{7EBDC2} % accent color
\definecolor{bgcolor}{HTML}{FCFCFF} % background color
\definecolor{bgcolorAlt}{HTML}{ECF1FC} % alternative/second background color
\definecolor{fgcolor}{HTML}{222244} % foreground/text color

accent : Accent color that is used for the progress bar and \alert{text}.

bgcolor : Main background color that is used as the background color of the slides.

bgcolorAlt : Second/alternative background color that is used as the background color of the slide titles and as the background color for boxes.

fgcolor : Foreground color that is used as the text color.

Logo

If you want to show the logo of your institution/university on the title page, you simple need to adjust the \titlegraphic command like

\titlegraphic{\includegraphics[height=.17\textheight]{logo.png}}

where logo.png refers to the image file of the logo.

Example

The following image shows the provided example slides with an example color scheme.