tutorial

version 0.3.6
A light modern LaTeX Beamer theme for academics

• style
  • lightxminimal flat style based on Szeged
• color
  • whale with energetic text colors
• font
  • Fira Sans typeface font theme from Metropolis

tutorial title page, style gallery and its full demo slides

Installation

• theme
  • (frequent, recommended) allocate both sty files into your Beamer theme texpath, or
  • (occasional) leave them aside with your main tex file
• font
  • (xelatex, recommended) install Fira Sans typeface from Mozilla, or
  • (pdflatex) MiKTeX might install FiraSans, FiraMono and newtxsf packages on the fly
• document
  • write your main tex file header as follows
  • replace either <options> with comma-separated light and/or minimal
  • recommend to enable both options for minimal visual noise

\documentclass[<options>]{beamer}
\usetheme[<options>]{tutorial}

Intention

• originally designed for my weekly tutorial sessions --- hence default tutorial keeps
  • headline section navigation bar
  • footline presentation information
    in each non-title frame for students' reference in class
• extended with lightxminimal options for less visual noise
  • light background for headline, footline and frametitle
  • minimal without headline or footline but frame number
• traditional Beamer Blended Blue x white color theme in accordance with
  • current "mainstream" presentation preference in Academia
  • convenient inclusion of graphs and/or tables with white background
• convenient to customize your own colors as follows for
  • main theme structure and general background
  • normal text, alerted text and example text
    where an asterisk * means to reset both fg and bg values

\setbeamercolor*{structure}{fg=<main color>, bg=<background>}
\setbeamercolor{<text style>}{fg=<text color>}

Limitation

• headline section navigation bar always coexists with footline information
• math and text font theme not carefully adjusted yet
• fixed frame numbering style
  • frame number only for minimal
  • otherwise shown as a fraction
• theme options cannot \PassOptionsToClass or \PassOptionsToPackage through command line
• common Beamer compress option untuned

Licensing

tutorial may be distributed and/or modified under the LaTeX Project Public License 1.3 and/or under the GNU General Public License 3.0.

tutorial is also required to be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
This means that if you modify the theme and/or distribute it, you are required to retain the copyright notice header and license it under the same CC-BY-SA license. This does not affect the presentation created with the theme.