matze/mtheme

Metropolis is a visual theme for Beamer, which is the standard tool for making slide presentations using LaTeX. LaTeX is a document formatting system widely used in academic and scientific writing, and Beamer is its presentation layer. Themes control the colors, fonts, layout, and overall look of the slides, Metropolis provides a clean, minimal design intended to keep the focus on content rather than decoration. The design philosophy is to remove visual clutter. Slides are mostly white or light gray with dark text, using a sans-serif font called Fira Sans by default. The only decorative element available is an optional progress bar at the bottom of each slide that shows how far through the presentation you are. To use it, you add one line to your LaTeX document declaring the theme, and Beamer applies the Metropolis styling automatically. Installation is straightforward because the theme is available through standard TeX distribution package managers like MikTeX and TeX Live, meaning most users can install it without downloading the source. The theme is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, which means you can use it freely for your own presentations. If you modify and redistribute the theme files themselves you must keep the copyright notice and use the same license, but this restriction does not apply to the presentations you make with it. Metropolis is aimed at anyone making academic or professional presentations in LaTeX who wants a modern look without spending time on manual styling. The README is brief and the project scope is narrow: it is a single theme with a small set of configuration options documented in a separate manual.