knut0815 / xsmin

minimalist beamer theme

xsmin: A Minimalist Beamer Theme

This is a beamer template derived from "Execushares" by Kenton Hamaluik (http://hamaluik.com/posts/better-beamer-themes/). Many features of that theme have been removed. A few minor cosmetic changes have been made as well.

Status

This template is a work in progress and the current version has many known issues. Use at your own risk.

Requirements

• xelatex
• Beamer
• tikz
• Adobe's "Source Pro" Fonts (free):
  • Source Serif Pro
  • Source Sans Pro
  • Source Code Pro

Quick start

In the linux terminal, a typical command to compile the sample presentation would be

xelatex sample.tex

producing as output sample.pdf.

To use xsmin with your own presentation, use documentclass beamer and add the command

\usetheme{xsmin}

to your document preamble. Also copy beamerthemexsmin.sty to the directory containing your tex file, or place this style file in the xelatex search path.

Known issues

• The title slide is drawn over top of whatever is on slide 1, even if that slide is not designated as the title slide.

• The square bullets for enumerated or itemized lists do not have the correct vertical alignment if a larger font size is used.

• The contact info slide in the sample presentation is sometimes not rendered correctly. Recompiling the presentation seems to fix this, but the cause is unknown.

• The title slide, frame title, and contact info slide are not beamer templates (as they should be), but instead are drawn manually after instructing beamer to create a suitable blank area on the slide.

Contributors

David Dumas [email protected]

The Execushares theme (from which this one was derived) was created by Kenton Hamaluik.