Metropolis
A modern beamer theme
Matthias Vogelgesang
Center for modern beamer themes
Table of contents
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Introduction
Metropolis
The metropolis theme is a Beamer theme with minimal visual noise
inspired by the hsrm Beamer Theme by Benjamin Weiss.
Enable the theme by loading
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}
Note, that you have to have Mozilla’s Fira Sans font and XeTeX installed
to enjoy this wonderful typography.
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Sections
Sections group slides of the same topic
\section{Elements}
for which metropolis provides a nice progress indicator . . .
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Titleformats
Metropolis titleformats
metropolis supports 4 different titleformats:
• Regular
• Smallcaps
• allsmallcaps
• ALLCAPS
They can either be set at once for every title type or individually.
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Small caps
This frame uses the smallcaps titleformat.
Potential Problems
Be aware, that not every font supports small caps. If for example you
typeset your presentation with pdfTeX and the Computer Modern Sans
Serif font, every text in smallcaps will be typeset with the Computer
Modern Serif font instead.
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all small caps
This frame uses the allsmallcaps titleformat.
Potential problems
As this titleformat also uses smallcaps you face the same problems as
with the smallcaps titleformat. Additionally this format can cause some
other problems. Please refer to the documentation if you consider using
it.
As a rule of thumb: Just use it for plaintext-only titles.
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ALL CAPS
This frame uses the allcaps titleformat.
Potential Problems
This titleformat is not as problematic as the allsmallcaps format, but
basically suffers from the same deficiencies. So please have a look at the
documentation if you want to use it.
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Elements
Typography
The theme provides sensible defaults to
\emph{emphasize} text, \alert{accent} parts
or show \textbf{bold} results.
becomes
The theme provides sensible defaults to emphasize text, accent parts or
show bold results.
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Font feature test
• Regular
• Italic
• SmallCaps
• Bold
• Bold Italic
• Bold SmallCaps
• Monospace
• Monospace Italic
• Monospace Bold
• Monospace Bold Italic
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Lists
Items Enumerations Descriptions
• Milk 1. First, PowerPoint Meeh.
• Eggs 2. Second and Beamer Yeeeha.
• Potatos 3. Last.
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Animation
• This is important
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Animation
• This is important
• Now this
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Animation
• This is important
• Now this
• And now this
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Animation
• This is really important
• Now this
• And now this
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Figures
Figure 1: Rotated square from texample.net.
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Tables
Table 1: Largest cities in the world (source: Wikipedia)
City Population
Mexico City 20,116,842
Shanghai 19,210,000
Peking 15,796,450
Istanbul 14,160,467
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Blocks
Three different block environments are pre-defined and may be styled
with an optional background color.
Default Default
Block content.
Block content.
Alert
Block content. Alert
Block content.
Example
Block content. Example
Block content.
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Math
n
1
e = lim 1+
n→∞ n
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Line plots
0.5
−0.5
−1
−4 −2 0 2 4
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Bar charts
25 lorem
ipsum
dolor
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Bar
15
10
1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
Foo
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Quotes
Veni, Vidi, Vici
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Frame footer
metropolis defines a custom beamer template to add a text to the
footer. It can be set via
\setbeamertemplate{frame footer}{My custom footer}
My custom footer 19
References
Some references to showcase [allowframebreaks] [?, ?, ?, ?, ?]
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Conclusion
Summary
Get the source of this theme and the demo presentation from
github.com/matze/mtheme
The theme itself is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
cba
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Questions?
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Backup slides
Sometimes, it is useful to add slides at the end of your presentation to
refer to during audience questions.
The best way to do this is to include the appendixnumberbeamer
package in your preamble and call \appendix before your backup slides.
metropolis will automatically turn off slide numbering and progress bars
for slides in the appendix.
References i
