KTH-PQ: a beamer template for KTH Royal Institute of Technology

General information

This software provides a LuaLaTeX beamer template following KTH's Brand guidelines published in October 2023. This package is not directly supported by KTH or its communications department.

External files

The files beamer...themekthpq.sty are distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.txt for more details. This is only relevant if you plan on distributing the software. If you are just using the template for a presentation, there is no need to worry about this :)

This software includes parts of Figtree, found in the directory fonts/Figtree.

This package also includes elements of KTH's visual identity. These are stored in the directory kthpq-files/figs.

Other files

This software is meant to be accessible via the Overleaf gallery.

How to use

See the documentation for a more detailed presentation of the template.

On Overleaf

Use the Overleaf template or download this repository and import it into your project.

On your computer

Put this repository somewhere accessible by TeX (the simplest is to put the files in your working directory).

In both cases

Your preamble should look something like this:

\documentclass[17pt, t, lualatex]{beamer}

...

\usetheme[...]{kthpq}

\begin{document}

Regarding the document class options:

• 17pt and 14pt look pretty good, but the template is designed for 17pt and the given slide size (254 x 143mm).
• t aligns slides to the top, which is closer to the PowerPoint template provided by KTH.
• lualatex is used when using kthpq with the LuaLaTeX engine, see options below.

The following options are available when loading the theme:

• engine=lualatex or pdflatex. The default and recommended engine for compiling with kthpq is lualatex, which is the only way to get the recommended fonts Figtree and Georgia. The option pdflatex should be faster, but uses Helvetica and Bitstream Charter.
• mathshape=sf, rm, or custom. This determines the shape used for math. The default is sf, sans-serif. rm corresponds to serif and custom means that no new math font is loaded (in case you want to load your own font).
• fontdir=<directory> or auto. Provide the directory path (relative or absolute) to the Figtree font files. The path used on Overleaf is provided in sample.tex. For local setups, use the option auto when fontspec can find the font by itself.