Scientific presentation slides for Typst, built on Touying. Five color themes, nine reusable layouts, and components for figures, equations, tables, and conclusions. Extracted from the sci-brain write-slides skill.

Starter PDF · Full gallery PDF · Layout guide · Style tokens

Get started

Install Typst 0.14.0 or newer and DejaVu Sans. On Debian or Ubuntu, the font is in fonts-dejavu-core. Math and monospace fonts are bundled with Typst.

typst init @preview/sci-brain-slides:0.1.0 my-talk
cd my-talk
typst compile main.typ

To try a theme or larger text, compile with --input theme=dark --input text-size=22.

Write a talk

#import "@preview/sci-brain-slides:0.1.0": *

#let deck = setup(theme: "academic", text-size: 22pt)
#let (twocol,) = deck.layouts
#show: deck.theme.with(
  config-info(title: [Measuring a noisy signal], author: [Your name]),
)
#title-slide()

== What does averaging change?
#twocol([
  *One measurement*
  $ x_i = mu + epsilon_i $
  The signal plus a random error.
], [
  *Many independent measurements*
  $ "SE"(hat(mu)) = sigma / sqrt(N) $
  Uncertainty falls as the sample count grows.
])

#focus-slide[Check the noise before collecting more samples.]

== starts a content slide. = introduces a section divider. #pause reveals more content on another PDF page, retaining the slide number. #focus-slide[...] creates a full-color statement with no running header or footer.

Use the starter source as a complete talk and the gallery source for individual examples. Bind only the names you use from deck.layouts and deck.gadgets.

Choose a layout

The starter uses twocol, hero, spread, and cards, then closes with a focus slide. The gallery demonstrates every layout and component; the layout examples begin on page 10.

Figure frames, callouts, statistics, tables, theorem and proof boxes, and conclusion components are documented in the layout guide. Pass ready-made image content, such as image("figure.svg"), to image helpers so paths resolve in your talk’s directory.

Themes and text size

#let deck = setup(theme: "brand", primary: rgb("#aa1e2b"), text-size: 22pt,
  sizes: (xlarge: 36pt, caption: 16pt, chrome: 12pt))
#show: deck.theme.with(font: "DejaVu Sans", lang: "en",
  config-info(title: [My talk]))

The default body text is 20 pt. text-size scales the typography; sizes overrides individual tokens afterward. Available tokens are xlarge, large, normal, caption, and chrome. Values must be positive absolute lengths. Use deck.sizes for custom text and deck.palette for custom colors.

Margins and fixed figure dimensions do not scale with the text. The starter fits at 20, 22, and 24 pt in all five themes. The template never shrinks content automatically. Recompile and inspect the PDF after changing text, fonts, or page dimensions; shorten or split an overfull slide.

The default footer shows only a slide number. Repeated footer text and a progress bar are optional via footer: [...] and footer-progress: true. Labels preserve the capitalization you write. See style tokens for page geometry, palette fields, and typography defaults.

Development

Python 3.11 or newer is needed only for the checks:

python3 tests/check.py
python3 tests/check.py --typst /path/to/another/typst --output /tmp/slides-check
git diff --check

The checks initialize a fresh project, compile every theme, verify the starter at three text sizes, and exercise invalid inputs, custom colors, local images, long titles, reveal timing, and optional diagrams. Generated PDFs go into previews/. CI runs the same checks on Typst 0.14.0 and 0.15.1.

Core slides use Touying 0.7.4. Optional diagram helpers load CeTZ 0.5.2; annotation helpers load pinit 0.2.2. All dependency versions are pinned.

See the changelog for releases. Bug reports should include a minimal .typ example, Typst version, and the theme and text size used.

License

MIT. The initial components came from sci-brain’s write-slides/zoo library. Touying is distributed under its own license. Sample values are analytical examples; all sample graphics are drawn from source in this repository.