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midcenturymodern is a Beamer template inspired by mid-century modern graphic design (1950s-60s). It comes in two colour schemes: Kraft, warm terracotta and kraft paper, and DeepBlue, dark navy with icy blue accents. They can be switched with a single line, \mcmTheme{Kraft} or \mcmTheme{DeepBlue}. Compile with LuaLaTeX. It uses three typefaces: TeX Gyre Adventor for titles and TeX Gyre Heros for text, free versions of Avant Garde Gothic (1970) and Helvetica (1957), with Universalis ADF on the title page. What's new v2.0.0 New typography throughout. Title page reworked graphically. Alert and example blocks redrawn: a title band over a tinted body, coloured from the scheme's accents. Frame titles can carry a subtitle. v1.1.0 The title page fits itself: type sizes and gaps scale to the amount of text, so a long title or author list stays on the slide. Blocks place themselves: stacking two, or setting one beside another in a column, no longer needs a manual \vspace. Hosted on GitHub. Read the introductory blog post. Released under CC BY 4.0.

Jules Leguy

midcentury-olive

A quiet, typographic 16:9 Beamer theme in olive green, built for a 45-minute defence and carried through one. Small-caps frame titles on a full-bleed band; card rows for a process or a pipeline; section dividers that take a subtitle; a SWOT grid whose quadrant colours are mixed from its two axes rather than picked. EB Garamond and Montserrat are bundled and loaded by filename, so nothing has to be installed and nothing is silently substituted. The unusual part is what it does when a slide holds too much: it says so, and names the frame. It never scales the type down to fit. A deck whose size changes from page to page is worse than a deck that is one page longer, and auto-shrinking produces the first without ever telling you. The included demo.tex fills every construct to a realistic length, so you can see a spacing problem before your own text hides it. Compile with XeLaTeX. Extends the "midcentury modern" theme by Jules Leguy (CC BY 4.0); this version is also CC BY 4.0. No institutional logo is included — the placeholder is yours to replace.

Midcentury Olive — a Beamer theme that reports what will not fit

Slate Blocks — a Beamer theme with seven named blocks

A 16:10 Beamer deck in a desaturated slate blue-grey, on stock themes (Madrid, miniframes, circles). No fonts to install, and it compiles under pdfLaTeX or XeLaTeX as it is. Two things it adds. Beamer gives you three blocks — block, example, alert; this gives you seven, each named for what it holds: Example, Comment, Proposal, Reminder, Problem, Challenge, Definition. And the whole palette is derived from a single colour by colour-wheel relations, all seven at the same lightness and saturation, so the hue distinguishes them and nothing shouts. Change one \definecolor and the deck re-tints. Also included: a photographic title page that covers the slide at any aspect ratio without distorting, the same photograph as a 6.7% watermark under every slide, and a SWOT grid. CC BY 4.0. The cover photograph is the author's own — replace it with yours; one line sets both the cover and the watermark. The logo is a placeholder, not anyone's mark.

Hao ZHANG