The mtheme is a Beamer theme with minimal visual. The core design principles of the theme were described in a blog post. Not convinced? Have a look at the demo slides.
To install the theme either run make install
or copy the style files ending
with .sty
to the source files of your presentation. As of now, fonts, colors
and the section indicator are hardcoded into the theme. For the demo you need
- XeLaTeX,
- the Fira Sans and Mono font and
- TikZ.
Depending on the Linux distribution, the packaged name of Fira Sans might be
Fira Sans OT
instead of Fira Sans
. In that case, you may have to edit
beamerfontthememetropolis.sty
. You may also need to install Fira Sans; see
the contrib/
directory for more
To build the demo slides just run make
in the top-level directory. To use this
theme with Pandoc-based presentations, you
can run the following command
$ pandoc -t beamer --latex-engine=xelatex -V theme:m -o output.pdf input.md
The usetitleprogressbar
option adds a thin progress bar similar to the section
progress bar underneath each frame title
In order to use \cite
, \ref
and similar commands in a frame title you have
to protect the title. This can be done automatically with the
protectframetitle
option.
The blockbg
option defines extra colors used in defining the blocks.
The blocks then have a gray background similar to other beamer themes.
By default, this package adds \vspace{2em}
after the frametitle to
make content more centered on the frame. If using more content per
slide, this can be turned off at the package-level by passing the
nooffset
option.
With option nosectionslide
, no dedicated slide is produced when a new section
starts. By default when using the \section
command, a slide is created with
just the title on it.
The nosmallcapitals
option supresses the usage of small capitals on
title page, frame titles and dedicated section slides.
Option usetotalslideindicator
creates slide numbering in lower right corner
in following format: #current/#total. By default, just current page number is
printed.
The \plain{title=[]}{body}
command sets a slide in plain dark colors
which can be useful to focus attentation on a single image.
The beamer theme also contains pre-defined pgfplot styles. Use the mlineplot
key to plot line data and mbarplot
or horizontal mbarplot
to plot bar
charts.
The theme itself is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This means that if you change the theme and re-distribute it, you must retain the copyright notice header and license it under the same CC-BY-SA license. This does not affect the presentation that you create with the theme.