Guitar Chord Chart

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A guitar chord chart in Lato with a legend for strings, fingers and symbols, major, minor and seventh chord diagrams, and practice notes on muting and barre chords.

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Document class
article [11pt]
Compiles with
pdfLaTeX
Pages in the compiled PDF
4
Bibliography
None
Files
1 file: 1 .tex
Packages
  • amsmath
  • fontenc
  • inputenc
  • lato
  • geometry
  • xcolor
  • tikz
  • ifthen
  • tcolorbox
  • enumitem
  • hyperref
The start of the preamble of main.tex, from its \documentclass line.
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

% --- Language & Font Setup ---
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lato}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

% --- Page Geometry ---
\usepackage[letterpaper, margin=0.5in]{geometry}

% --- Color Palette ---
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{accent}{HTML}{0F172A}    % Slate 900 (Deep Slate)
\definecolor{accentlight}{HTML}{3B82F6} % Blue 500 (For subtle highlights/dots)
\definecolor{dark}{HTML}{1E293B}      % Slate 800
\definecolor{light}{HTML}{F8FAFC}     % Slate 50
\definecolor{muted}{HTML}{64748B}     % Slate 500
\definecolor{grid}{HTML}{E2E8F0}      % Slate 200
\definecolor{pagebg}{HTML}{FCFDFE}    % Extremely soft cool white background
\pagecolor{pagebg}

% --- Additional Packages ---
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\tcbuselibrary{skins,breakable}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, linkcolor=accentlight, urlcolor=accentlight]{hyperref}

% --- Paragraph Styling ---
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}

% --- Custom Section Header ---
\newcommand{\sectionheader}[1]{%
  \vspace{2mm}

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It uses the article class (options: 11pt), builds with pdfLaTeX, and loads 11 packages, including amsmath, fontenc, inputenc, lato, geometry, xcolor, tikz and ifthen.

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