SISL Beamer Color Themes
Elephant bird
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About
Elephant Bird and Ostrich are two color themes for the
Beamer class.
They can give your presentation a distinct appearance.
UIC logos are included for institution identification.
Both of these themes consist of colors being used on this wiki.
Elephant Bird employs a dark palette useful for displaying slideshows on a video projector.
Ostrich has a bright palette, useful for printed media and other applications.
Examples
Here are screenshots of the two ratites.
Actual results may vary depending on the major (structural) theme selected.
Elephant bird color theme
Ostrich color theme
How to use
Download the
theme files.
Extract the
latex/ directory into your presentation's working directory.
For best results, select the main (structural) theme before selecting the color theme.
For instance, in your initial
.tex file, select the Ostrich theme using the command below.
\usetheme{default}
\usepackage{latex/packages/ostrich}
You can select the Elephant bird theme similarly:
\usetheme{default}
\usepackage{latex/packages/elephantbird}
Logos
The themes define several graphic
logos.
Each university logo comes in a default size, but you can vary the scaling with an optional parameter.
% Standard UIC logo, default scaling of 0.25%:
\UICLogo
% Standard UIC logo, twice the normal size:
\UICLogo{0.5}
UIC logo
The basic
UIC logo is included by default on slides where defined by the selected structural theme.
It is white on the Elephant bird theme, and Navy blue on the Ostrich theme.
CS Department logos
The
Computer Science Department logos are available on command.
They will have a black or white background, depending on which color theme you are using.
More logos
There are some other logos available as well.
Feel free to experiment with them to get the right look for your slides.
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\UICFlamesLogo
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\UICStackedLogo
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\UICVerticalLogo
Theme compatibility
This table charts the compatibility of Elephant bird and Ostrich with the stock structural themes packaged with Beamer.
Compatibility chart:
= Works
= Doesn't work
| Theme | Elephant Bird | Elephant Bird Comments | Ostrich | Ostrich Comments |
|---|
| default | | | | |
| AnnArbor | | Yellow slide titles | | Yellow slide titles |
| Antibes | | | | |
| Bergen | | Color and formatting bad | | Color and formatting bad |
| Berkeley | | | | Logo color doesn't match |
| Berlin | | | | |
| Boadilla | | | | |
| CambridgeUS | | Lots of color problems | | Red/white slide titles |
| Copenhagen | | | | |
| Darmstadt | | Subsection title area looks wrong | | Subsection title area looks wrong |
| Dresden | | | | |
| Frankfurt | | Progress area looks wrong | | Progress area looks wrong |
| Goettingen | | Sidebar color is wrong | | Sidebar color is wrong |
| Hannover | | Does not display logo | | Does not display logo |
| Ilmenau | | | | |
| JuanLesPins | | Progress area looks wrong | | Progress area looks wrong |
| Luebeck | | | | |
| Madrid | | | | |
| Malmoe | | | | |
| Marburg | | Sidebar color is wrong | | Sidebar color is wrong |
| Montpellier | | | | |
| PaloAlto | | | | Logo color doesn't match |
| Pittsburgh | | | | |
| Rochester | | | | |
| Singapore | | | | Progress area looks wrong |
| Szeged | | | | |
| Warsaw | | | | |
Elephant bird illustration from “Vanished Species” by David Day, Gallery Books, 1989 revision. Fetched from here on 12/07/2007.
