8  UMBC themes

I have created four themes which you may use just like any other Beamer theme.³ These are named: umbc1, umbc2, umbc3 and umbc4.

The umbc1 theme

\documentclass{beamer} 
\usetheme{umbc1} 

The umbc2 theme

This is a slight variation on Beamer 3.01’s Singapore theme or Beamer 2.21’s Classic theme.

\documentclass{beamer} 
\usetheme{umbc2} 

The umbc3 theme

This is inspired by a PowerPoint theme.

\documentclass{beamer} 
\usetheme{umbc3} 

The umbc4 theme

This is inspired by a well-known PowerPoint theme.

\documentclass{beamer} 
\usetheme{umbc4} 

Customizing the umbc themes

Beamer customization options described in Customizing themes apply to UMBC themes as well. For instance, here is what umbc2 looks like in the RawSienna color and centered title in italics:

\documentclass[xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer} 
\usetheme{umbc2} 
\usecolortheme[named=RawSienna]{structure} 
\setbeamerfont{frametitle}{family=\rmfamily,shape=\itshape} 
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}[default][center] 

Remark: If you have a department account, you don’t need to do anything special to use the UMBC themes—they are already installed. If you don’t have a department account, you may download the UMBC theme collection beamer-umbc.tar.gz and install alongside Beamer’s own theme files. Here is the beamer-umbc.readme file from that collection.