Note
This template style is fairly complete and working well, but any feature requests or bug reports to improve it are very welcome! The theme should adjust to various aspect ratios and page sizes.
This is an unofficial conference poster template for UVT (West University of Timișoara). It is loosely based on the official UVT branding. However, the university does not offer an example of a conference poster, so this is just inspired by the existing templates (for letterheads and presentation slides).
Templates in the same series:
Copy beamerthemeuvtposter.sty, beamercolorthemeuvtposter.sty, template.tex,
and the relevant logos from assets/ to your working directory. Modify
template.tex as appropriate and build with PDFLaTeX (or XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX
for the adventurous). The poster is based on the beamerposter
package and can be customized using standard Beamer macros (e.g. \setbeamercolor,
\setbeamerfont, and \setbeamertemplate).
The package defines the following options used as \usetheme[opts]{uvtposter}.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
language |
Can be romanian or english |
helveticanow |
Attempt to load the the Helvetica Now Display fonts |
size=aN |
Set the paper size |
orientation=name |
Set the orientation to "landscape" or "portrait" |
scale=1.0 |
Scale the font sizes of the whole poster |
showframe |
[DEBUG] Shows a frame around page elements (margins, etc.) |
layoutgrid |
[DEBUG] Adds a debug grid to check alignment |
Additional options are passed directly to beamerposter, so you should consult
its documentation. The language option is only used to automatically set some
default strings (e.g. for \headeruniversity) and other assets. If you provide
them yourself, this will have no effect.
The standard branding colors are given below.
| Color | RGB |
|---|---|
UVTDarkBlue |
 (3, 58, 137) |
UVTSkyBlue |
 (37, 136, 231) |
UVTLightBlue |
 (174, 217, 248) |
UVTBlack |
 (18, 18, 18) |
UVTAccentWhite |
 (252, 245, 247) |
UVTWhite |
 (255, 255, 255) |
UVTPosterYellow |
 (228, 172, 36) |
UVTPosterDarkBlue |
 (0, 37, 97) |
UVTPosterDarkGray |
 (166, 166, 166) |
UVTPosterLightGray |
 (221, 221, 221) |
The following helper macros are defined for some standard functionality.
| Macro | Description |
|---|---|
\footerleft |
Generic text to add on the left of the footer |
\footermiddle |
Generic text to add on the middle of the footer |
\footerright |
Generic text to add on the right of the footer |
\footerweb |
Personal or institutional website (on the left) |
\footerlocation |
Location of the poster presentation (in the middle) |
\footeremail |
Contact email (on the right) |
\footername |
Presenter or institution name (on the right) |
\headerlogo |
Logo shown in the top left of the header |
\headeruniversity |
Name of the university shown in the header (top left) |
\headerdepartment |
Name of the faculty/department shown in the header (top left) |
\headerconference |
Name of the conference shown in the header (top right) |
\heading |
A macro that adds a small heading inside blocks |
\separatorcolumn |
Adds a standardized spacing between columns |
The logo in the header is taken from the official university branding website. It was trimmed and resized to better fit the header using
just trim logo.png
just square logo.pngThe UVT Letterhead Template has a lot more logos in the right format, so you can get more from there. If you need to add more logos to your poster, we recommend making a block at the bottom right (under any references) and adding them there with appropriate acknowledgements.
Note that the Official Manual recommends the Helvetica Display
Now font. This font is generally
not available for free, but can be purchased from Monotype or a
reseller.
Ideally, you can get it from the university for official documents. If you
managed to get it, you will need to use the XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX engines to
load it (since PDFLaTeX does not support OTF or TTF fonts).
If you do not have the recommended font, a good alternative is the open source
TeX Gyre Heros font (a quality classic Helvetica clone). This is loaded by
default by the template if the helveticanow option is not given or if the
font is not found.
If you are using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, there are many other nice fonts to
keep in mind that would work well. For example: Carlito (a Calibri clone),
Caladea (a Cambria clone), Montserrat (inspired by Gotham), Adobe Source Sans,
and many others. A nice font will always make your poster look nicer!
This theme was originally based on the Gemini theme, but little of it remains. If you need a more general theme, Gemini is quite wonderful!
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