The glasgowtheme is a Beamer theme with minimal visual distraction, designed around the University of Glasgow's branding guidelines. The theme is a modified version of a theme described at 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,
- epspdf (to convert the UoG logo to PDF format)
- wget (to retrieve the logo from the University server)
- bash (to run the download script)
- the Fira Sans font,
- TikZ and
- the Python package Pygments that you can get with
pip install pygments.
The package can be installed by running make install in the
repository, which will automatically place the files in your TEXMF
tree. This will also download the logo files, however, you'll need to
be either on campus or connected to the UoG VPN system for this to
work.
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
beamerfontthemeglasgow.sty.
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:glasgow -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.
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.