reishi123 / beamertheme-bjeldbak

A simple, minimalistic Beamer theme to keep eyes on the content

beamertheme-bjeldbak

A simple beamer theme. I'm aiming for a minimalistic look.

This theme started off as me modifying Cameron Bracken's theme published in his blog post here.

Installing

Add this repository to your presentation like so

$ git clone [email protected]:martinbmadsen/beamertheme-bjeldbak.git

then, in your root or preamble set beamerthemebjeldbak.sty as the presentation style with \usetheme{bjeldbak}.

Screenshots

Minimum working example

Having cloned as above, this will compile a mini presentation.

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{bjeldbak}

\title{Testing}
\author{Martin Bjeldbak Madsen}

\begin{document}
  {%
    \setbeamertemplate{headline}{}
    \frame{\titlepage}
  }

  \begin{frame}
    It's working!
  \end{frame}
\end{document}

Customizing

Here are a couple of things you can change up. I'm sure there are more!

Changing theme font

This is done on line 9 with \RequirePackage{tgpagella}, and can be set to any packaged font in the TUG font catalogue.

Changing current slide typography

Line 20 accomplishes this. You can replace / with -, of, or any other separation character(s) you may have in mind.

Changing top/bottom bar colors

If you want to change the color of the teal bars above and below each slide, simply change the \definecolor{barcolor}{HTML}{77C4D3} command on line 43 with any other hex value.

Showing clickable bottom bar

By default, the clickable navbar at the bottom (enabled by in all standard themes) is hidden, as I have never needed to use it. If you want re-enable it again paste the following after the \usetheme{bjeldbak} in your preamble:

\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}[horizontal]

Alternatively, remove/comment out line 40 in the theme file.