SciLifeLab Beamer Theme

A Latex Beamer theme derived from Metropolis by Matthias Vogelsang and others and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

It uses the Linux Biolinum Font Family designed by Philipp H. Poll for better readability. The official sans-serif font specified by SciLifeLabs visual guide is Lato designed by Łukasz Dziedzic. To use open source/beamerfontthemescilifelab.dtx and replace \usepackage{biolinum} with \usepackage{lato} in line 50.

Installation

Since this theme is not on CTAN, it needs to be installed from source:

1. Download the source with a git clone of the scilifelab repository or as a zip archive of the latest development version.
2. Compile the style files by running make sty inside the downloaded directory. (Or run LaTeX directly on source/scilifelabtheme.ins.)
3. Move the resulting *.sty files to the folder containing your presentation. To use the theme with many presentations, run make install or move the *.sty files to a folder in your TeX path instead (might require sudo rights).
4. Use the theme for your presentation by declaring \usetheme{scilifelab} in the preamble of your Beamer document.
5. For best results install Mozilla's Fira Sans.

Usage

The following code shows a minimal example of a Beamer presentation using the theme.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{scilifelab}           % Use scilifelab theme
\title{A minimal example}
\date{\today}
\author{A Scilifelab Member}
\institute{Science for Life Laboratory}
\begin{document}
  \maketitle
  \section{First Section}
  \begin{frame}{First Frame}
    Hello, world!
  \end{frame}
\end{document}

License

Like Metropolis, from which it is derived, this theme is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This means that if you change the theme and re-distribute it, you must retain the copyright notice header and license it under the same CC-BY-SA license. This does not affect the presentation that you create with the theme.