/vienna-theme

A simple Beamer theme for my presentations based on the metropolis theme

Primary LanguageTeX

Vienna Beamer Theme

This is a fork of the amazing Metropolis Theme by Matthias Vogelgesang.

Most changes here are inspired by the open PRs in https://github.com/matze/mtheme/pulls or adaptations I use in my presentations.

Vienna is a simple, modern Beamer theme based on Metropolis suitable for anyone to use. It tries to minimize noise and maximize space for content; the only visual flourish it offers is an (optional) progress bar added to each slide. The core design principles of the original Metropolis theme were described in a blog post here.

Not convinced? Have a look at the demo slides or read the manual.

Sample

Installation

To install a stable version of this theme, please refer to update instructions of your TeX distribution.

Installing Metropolis from source, like any Beamer theme, involves four easy steps:

  1. Download the source with a git clone of the Vienna repository or as a zip archive of the latest development version.
  2. Compile the style files by running make sty inside the downloaded directory. (Or run LaTeX directly on source/viennatheme.ins.)
  3. Move the resulting *.sty files to the folder containing your presentation. To use Metropolis with many presentations, run make install or move the *.sty files to a folder in your TeX path instead.
  4. Use the theme for your presentation by declaring \usetheme{vienna} in the preamble of your Beamer document.
  5. For best results install Mozilla's Fira Sans.

Usage

The following code shows a minimal example of a Beamer presentation using Metropolis.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{vienna}           % Use vienna theme
\title{A minimal example}
\date{\today}
\author{The Author}
\institute{Centre for Modern Beamer Themes}
\begin{document}
  \maketitle
  \section{First Section}
  \begin{frame}{First Frame}
    Hello, world!
  \end{frame}
\end{document}

Detailed information on using Metropolis can be found in the manual.

License

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.