A clean and minimal Beamer theme mimicking David Blei's presentation from his Variational Inference tutorial and developed for academic presentations.
See example.pdf for a complete example of the theme in action, showcasing all features and styling options. The source code for that is in example.tex, but with images and other assets lacking to keep things simple!
- Clean, minimal design with serif fonts (Bitstream Charter)
- Simple navigation with page numbers in footer
- Customizable grey boxes for highlighting content
- Built-in bibliography support with
biblatex - Overlay functionality for emphasis
- Automatic section outline slides
- Optimized for clean academic presentations
- Download
beamerthemeblei.styor clone the repo - Place it in your local texmf directory:
~/texmf/tex/latex/local/beamerthemeblei.sty
\documentclass[10pt,xcolor={dvipsnames}]{beamer}
\usetheme{blei} % <---- Use the theme
\title{Your Presentation Title}
\author{Your Name}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{frame}{Your First Slide}
Content goes here...
\end{frame}
\end{document}\documentclass[10pt,xcolor={dvipsnames}]{beamer}
\usetheme{blei}
\addbibresource{your-bibliography.bib}
% Your content...
% Add references at the end
\insertreferences
\end{document}All features are on display in example.pdf; its source code is in example.tex.
Highlight important content with grey boxes:
\greybox{Your highlighted content here}Create overlay text for emphasis:
\overlay{Important message}Add extra spacing between list items:
\begin{itemize}
\widesep
\item First item
\item Second item
\end{itemize}Many thanks go to David Blei, not in the least for helping me understand VI!
Released under MIT license.