UniPi Beamer Theme

A personal, independent Beamer theme inspired by the visual identity of the University of Pisa. This is the theme I use for my own academic presentations — seminars, thesis defences, and conference talks. It aims to balance a formal academic style with a clean, modern layout.

Disclaimer — This is a personal project and not an official template of the University of Pisa. Released under the MIT License: you are free to use, modify, and adapt it for any purpose, including changing colours, logos, and style to match a different university, department, or personal taste.

Preview

A full demo presentation showcasing every feature is available here: docs/demo.pdf

PDF viewer note — The code listing slides use a dark-background colour block rendered by the listings package. This displays correctly in Chromium-based browsers and Adobe Acrobat. Some lightweight or browser-embedded viewers (e.g. Safari's built-in renderer, certain mobile readers) may show the background incorrectly or omit it entirely. For the best preview experience, open the PDF in Chrome or Acrobat.

Repository layout

theme/      the theme itself — the only files you need to reuse
example/    source files of the demo presentation (see below)
docs/       the compiled demo PDF

File	Role
theme/beamerthemeunipi.sty	layout, fonts, environments, commands
theme/beamercolorthemeunipi.sty	colours only — edit to create variants

About example/

The example/ folder contains the two source files used to produce docs/demo.pdf:

File	Role
example/main.tex	main presentation source — documents every theme feature
example/refs.bib	bibliography database used in the demo

The demo was compiled on Overleaf with main.tex and refs.bib uploaded as the project's root files. You can replicate the same setup by creating a new Overleaf project, uploading the theme/ folder alongside main.tex and refs.bib, and hitting Recompile — Overleaf runs biber automatically.

main.tex is also a copy-pasteable reference: every command and environment is shown in context with short academic examples.

Quick start

Copy the theme/ folder next to your .tex file, then:

\makeatletter
\def\input@path{{theme/}}
\makeatother
\usetheme{unipi}

The colour file is loaded automatically.

Recommended packages

The theme deliberately does not load fonts, math, or bibliography packages, so you stay free to choose your own. The demo uses:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[sfdefault,scaled=0.9]{FiraSans}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=numeric]{biblatex}

Features

• Block environments: definitionblock, highlightblock, goldblock, resultblock, noteblock, warningblock, exampleblockunipi, plus theorem-style shorthands (theoremblock, lemmablock, corollaryblock, openproblemblock) and a pseudoblock for pseudocode.
• Special slides: title page, full-bleed section dividers, references slide, closing slide, and an appendix boundary.
• Code listings: a dark-background listings style, usable inline via \unipicodeset or through the self-contained unipicodeframe.
• Inline utilities: \keypoint, \highlight, \code, \sourcenote, \slidecite.
• Layout helpers: a simple twocols two-column environment.
• Citations: works with biblatex (\footfullcite, \printbibliography) and a theme-native \slidecite.
• Optional progress bar and automatic section-overview slides.

Note: docs/demo.pdf is committed intentionally so the preview is visible without compiling. If you regenerate it, copy the fresh PDF into docs/.

Adapting the palette

All colours live in theme/beamercolorthemeunipi.sty. To create a variant for a different university or department, edit only that file — redefine the UniPi* colours at the top and everything else follows automatically.

License

MIT © 2026 Angelo Nardone