A clean, modern Beamer (LaTeX) slide template with Tsinghua University branding. Uses the Lexend + Inter font family for a Google Fonts-like aesthetic while retaining full academic functionality.
- Tsinghua Purple colour scheme with customisable accent colours
- Automatic section divider pages with decorative rules
- Smooth navigation bar header (section dots) + page-number footer
- Full biblatex / Biber citation support (footnote style)
- Built-in styles for code listings, TikZ diagrams, tables, multi-column layouts, and placeholder boxes
- XeLaTeX + fontspec pipeline — works on Windows, macOS, and Linux
- CJK support out of the box (Microsoft YaHei / SimSun fallback)
| Tool | Minimum version | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| TeX Live | 2023+ | or MiKTeX 2023+ |
| XeLaTeX | bundled | comes with TeX Live / MiKTeX |
| Biber | bundled | for bibliography processing |
| latexmk | bundled | optional but recommended |
# Option 1: latexmk (recommended — auto-runs biber)
latexmk slide.tex
# Option 2: manual
xelatex slide.tex
biber slide
xelatex slide.tex
xelatex slide.textemplate/
├── slide.tex # Main presentation source
├── Tsinghua.sty # Beamer theme (colour / layout)
├── .latexmkrc # latexmk config (XeLaTeX mode)
├── README.md # This file
├── fonts/
│ ├── Inter/ # Inter font family (.ttf/.otf)
│ └── Lexend/ # Lexend font family (.ttf)
├── pic/ # Images & logos
│ └── Tsinghua_University_Logo.eps
└── ref/
└── refs.bib # Bibliography database
Edit the metadata block near the top of slide.tex:
\author{Your Name}
\title[Short Title]{Your Presentation Title}
\institute{Tsinghua University}
\date{\today}All accent colours are defined at the top of slide.tex:
\definecolor{THUPurple}{RGB}{111, 23, 135}
\definecolor{AccentBlue}{RGB}{0, 102, 204}Place images in pic/ and reference them:
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{my-figure.png}\placeholder{Figure to be added later}Add entries to ref/refs.bib, then cite in slides:
This was shown by prior work.\footfullcite{vaswani2017attention}| Slide type | What it demonstrates |
|---|---|
| Title page | Logo, author, institute, supervisor |
| Outline | Numbered section list |
| Text + citations | Footnote-style references via biblatex |
| Research question | Coloured block environment |
| Two-column + TikZ | Side-by-side layout with inline diagram |
| Mathematical formulation | Display math with underbrace annotations |
| Algorithm steps | Nested enumerate with colour accents |
| Results table | booktabs + multirow professional table |
| Ablation table | Compact comparison table |
| Heatmap visualisation | TikZ-generated pseudo-heatmap |
| Flowchart | TikZ node-based flowchart with decision node |
| Code listing | Python code with syntax highlighting |
| Columns + placeholder | Draft-mode placeholder box |
| Multi-column | Two-column itemize with summary block |
| Conclusion | Contributions + future directions |
| Thank-you page | Contact info |
| References | Full bibliography page |
This template is provided as-is for academic use. The Tsinghua University logo is a registered trademark of Tsinghua University.