📢 UPDATE: The logo files are now included in this repository.

📽️ fau-beamer

A LaTeX beamer template according to the 2021 style guide of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

The given template allows you to create LaTeX presentations with the beamer class in the corporate style of FAU.

⚙️ Usage and Most Important Options

To use this template you can either clone this repository or download the code. The example document should provide a basic introduction how to set up a document with this template. We are only going over the most important steps here.

Typically you would start your LaTeX document with

\documentclass[<optional arguments>]{beamer}
\usepackage[<optional arguments>]{styles/beamerthemefau}

where the first line loads the beamer class and the second line employs the template. In the following we will explain some of the optional arguments you can pass to beamerthemefau.

⚜️ Choosing The Institute

The option institute specifies which institute template should be used. For example

\usepackage[institute=FAU]{styles/beamerthemefau}

can be used to use the generic FAU style. The following style are available

• [institute=FAU]: Generic style for FAU,

• [institute=Med]: style for Medizinische Fakultät,

• [institute=Nat]: style for Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät,

• [institute=Phil]: style for Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie,

• [institute=RW]: style for Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät,

• [institute=Tech]: style for Technische Fakultät

This option influences

1. the color scheme,

2. the left word mark for the title page

see the sections on colors and logos. The default option is [institute=FAU].

🖼️ Frames

The following image displays the appearance of a normal frame employing the fau theme.

Next to standard frame option of the beamer class, this theme additionally provides the following option.

• begin{frame}[title] ... \end{frame}: This option changes the appearance of the frame to a title theme. It will change the background color the font size, the font color and the headline, as displayed below. This can be useful when you want to employ an outline in the same style as the overview at the begin of each section:

  \begin{frame}[title]{-}
  \tableofcontents
  \end{frame}
  

• begin{frame}[titleimage] ... \end{frame}: This option yields the same behavior as the option above, where additionally the title art is placed in the background, as displayed below. This can be, e.g., employed for the title page.

  \begin{frame}[t,titleimage]{-}
  \titlepage%
  \end{frame}
  

• begin{truplainframe}...\end{trueplainframe}: This option yields a frame, where the sidebar, headline and footer are completely turned off. This will be implemented as a normal frame option in future versions.

🖌️ Colors

The template employs the color scheme as specified by the FAU style guide. Each institute has two colors a base color and a dark base color. These colors are available via the commands \BaseColor and \BaseDarkColor

Institute	\BaseColor	RGB	\BaseDarkColor	RGB
FAU		0,47,108		4,30,66
Med		0, 163, 224		0, 97, 160
Nat		67, 176, 42		34, 136, 72
Phil		255, 184, 28		232, 119, 34
RW		200, 16, 46		151,27,47
Tech		119, 159, 181		65, 116, 141

©️ Logos

The logo files are now included in this repo!!!

The files and the version of the FAU corporate website are outdated and are soon to be replaced.

The following files

• FAUWortmarkeBlau.pdf
• FAUWortmarkeWhite.pdf

are the same for every institute and are therefore placed directly in the /template-art folder. The files for each institute are now placed in the subfolder /<Institute>, where you find

• <Institute>Kennung.pdf
• <Institute>KennungWhite.pdf
• <Institute>Title.jpg

You can add additional logos to the title of the frames via the options

• SecondLogo=<path/to/image>
• ThirdLogo=<path/to/image>

🔧 Misc

You can use the option [scale=<value>] to scale the canvas size. By default the canvas dimensions are

• 338.7 mm x 238.1 mm for 16:9
• 254 mm x 190.5 mm for 4:3

📎 Questions or Remarks

If you have questions about specific features or found an error you can either write an email to the author (see below) or raise an issue here.

🍺 Credit

This template was designed by Tim Roith using the given style from the FAU corporate style guide 2021.