PhD Defense Beamer

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A PhD defense in 16:9 Beamer set in Lato, organised around three research questions on representation drift: detect it unlabeled, predict it, and recover from it.

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Document class: beamer [aspectratio=169, 11pt]
Compiles with: pdfLaTeX
Pages in the compiled PDF: 14
Bibliography: None
Files: 1 file: 1 .tex
Packages: fontenc
lato
amsmath
booktabs
tikz

The start of the preamble of main.tex, from its \documentclass line.

\documentclass[aspectratio=169,11pt]{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lato}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning,arrows.meta}

% ---------------- custom theme ----------------
\definecolor{ink}{HTML}{1B2A4A}
\definecolor{accent}{HTML}{3A7CA5}
\definecolor{accent2}{HTML}{E9A44C}
\definecolor{light}{HTML}{EEF3F8}
\definecolor{mist}{HTML}{5A6577}

\usecolortheme{default}
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=ink}
\setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=white,bg=ink}
\setbeamercolor{structure}{fg=accent}
\setbeamercolor{block title}{fg=white,bg=accent}
\setbeamercolor{block body}{bg=light}
\setbeamercolor{itemize item}{fg=accent}
\setbeamercolor{itemize subitem}{fg=accent2}
\setbeamerfont{frametitle}{series=\bfseries}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}{%
  \nointerlineskip
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=3.2ex,dp=1.2ex,leftskip=0.6cm]{frametitle}%
    \usebeamerfont{frametitle}\insertframetitle%
  \end{beamercolorbox}%
  {\color{accent2}\rule{\paperwidth}{2pt}}}
\setbeamertemplate{itemize item}{\small\raise0.5pt\hbox{\donotcoloroutermaths$\blacktriangleright$}}
\setbeamertemplate{footline}{%
  \hbox{\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=2.6ex,dp=1ex,leftskip=0.5cm,rightskip=0.5cm]{}%
    \color{mist}\tiny K.\ Ramaswamy \textbullet\ PhD Defense
    \hfill \color{mist}\tiny letx.app \hfill \color{mist}\tiny \insertframenumber/\inserttotalframenumber%
  \end{beamercolorbox}}}

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It uses the beamer class (options: aspectratio=169, 11pt), builds with pdfLaTeX, and loads 5 packages: fontenc, lato, amsmath, booktabs and tikz.

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