Design/Presentation Templates

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    Impress Default Templates

    Many users are dependent or rely on the default templates for a variety of reasons (ex: inability to access online templates). Therefore it is important that LibreOffice's Impress comes with useful and stunning default templates that cover a variety of themes and uses. With the (currently arbitrary) goal of creating 20-30 default templates the following themes (which we hope can cover as many use cases as possible) are being considered.

    How you can help

    Please update the list with themes, comments or ideas for background and bullet images. Bear with us as the wiki page slowly gets update.

    Proposed Default Template Themes

    Academic templates:

    • Architecture/Engineering (I-beam or similar structural element)
    • Biology/Chemistry (chemical symbol or stylized chemical model)
    • Social Sciences (one template as a sociology image)
    • Economics could overlap with Business template and Geography could overlap with travel
    • Performing arts
    • History Business Templates:
    • Business logo oriented theme (could include directions in theme to substitute a company logo for a placeholder within the master)
    • Motivational: (Stylized human reaching for star)

    Leisure & home Templates:

    • Photobooks ("bound book" look)
    • Weddings or other life-events
    • Sports (maybe a Futbol theme as it is the most popular sport internationally)

    Nature and Travel Templates:

    • Seasonal (perhaps a simple one for each season)
    • Nature and animals
    • Travel (Famous locations or a stylized map/compass)

    General Templates:

    • Solid color (currently available in LibO, so we should evaluate which ones we want to keep)
    • High contrast (Simple black on white or similar)
    • Right-to-left language templates: exs: Arabic, Hebrew
    • Top-to-bottom language Templates: exs: Chinese

    Work Progress for Default Templates

    Each Template's progress should be tracked using the table before. The community can then link to this page to explore the different templates and provide feedback.

    Theme Category Theme Status

    (No work, In development, Final Draft, Completed)

    Team working on template Background Image
    Concept
    Bullet Image
    Concept
    Fonts used Comments Link to File
    Academic Example:

    Architecture/Engineering

    Incomplete Jaron, Kevin I-beam or similar structural element Level 1) Gear

    2) Diamond
    3) Circle
    4-10) LibO Default

    Arial Jaron:This is an example
    no link
    ------------- ------------- ------------- ------------- ------------- ------------- ------------- ------------- -------------
    General "Green Theme" In development Paulo José White with shadow; Green title bar <In progress> Sans-serif (Ubuntu) Jaron: Looks good Paulo, can't wait to see the bullets Paulo's Blog Link
    ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

    Review of Existing LibreOffice Default Templates

    Template/Master Page Name Theme Description Comments on Background Image Comments on Bullet Images Comments on Fonts Misc. Comments
    "Default" Default Theme: White background; Black fonts and bullets. Background: Bullets: Good default spacing; 1st and 2nd level bullets are both filled circles. Fonts: Title: Arial

    Content: Arial

    Footer font is Times New Roman
    "Black and White" Light charcoal line background with semi-transparent center that results in a colored "margin"; default bullet shapes; top-center aligned title. Background: Background is not properly aligned to the content area, therefore text could overlap into the "margin" Bullets: Indent on 2nd level and higher is quite large (Jaron: too large in my opinion). Fonts: Title: Albany

    Content: Albany

    Footer overlaps content area, font is Times New Roman, and isn't aligned with the content area box.
    "Blue Border" Water paint blue line around the edge of the document; blue text and orange default bullet shapes; top-center aligned title. Background: Color of background doesn't match slide text. Bullets: Indent on 2nd level and higher is quite large. Fonts: Title: Albany

    Content: Albany

    Title/content boxes are not the same size properly aligned to the page and are therefore not centered.

    Footer overlaps content area, font is Times New Roman, and isn't aligned with the content area box.

    "Blue Lines and Gradients" Dark blue title area and bottom right centered radial gradient of dark to lighter blue for content area, horizontal stripes roughly divide title and content area and content and footer area; White Bolded title text and white content text with yellow bullets; top center aligned title. Background: Horizontal line at bottom of content area could interfere with text on slides with 8 bullets;
    Jaron: Lines are distracting
    Bullets: Indent on 2nd level and higher is quite large. Fonts: Title: Albany bolded

    Content: Albany;

    Footer overlaps content area and font is Times New Roman
    "Blue Step Gradients" A rough step gradient from white at the top of the slide to black at the bottom with a blue theme; Black bolded title text and white content text with whiteish-blue default shape bullets; top center aligned title. Background: Step gradient results in a color change through the center of the title area which may be distracting. Bullets: Indent on 2nd level and higher is quite large. Fonts: Title: Albany bolded

    Content: Albany;

    Footer overlaps content area and font is Times New Roman
    "Blue and Grey" Blue background with semi radial grey gradient centered at the top left of the slide; White title and content text, 'orange 4' default shape bullets; top center aligned title. Background: Bullets: Indent on 2nd level and higher is quite large. Fonts: Title: Albany

    Content: Albany;

    Footer is font Times New Roman
    "Blue and Red Gradient" Red and blue colorful background with semi-transparent white center that results in a colored "margin"; Blue title and Black content text, 'Blue' default shape bullets; top center aligned title. Background: Very bright and potentially distracting. Bullets: Color, although blue, doesn't match with background image; Indent on 2nd level and higher is quite large. Fonts: Title: Thorndale bolded

    Content: Thorndale
    Uses Serif fonts

    Footer is font Times New Roman
    "Blue with Bottom Title" Similar to 'Blue Lines and Gradient' except vertically inverted. Blue/turquoise title area at the bottom of the page and bottom right centered radial gradient of turquoise to white for content area, horizontal stripes roughly divide title and content area; White Bolded title text and black content text with red bullets; bottom center aligned title. Background: Bottom title is awkwardly positioned. Bullets: Indent on 2nd level and higher is quite large. Fonts: Title: Albany

    Content: Albany;

    Footer overlaps content area, font is Times New Roman and is awkwardly positioned between the content area and the slide title.
    "Brown" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Characters with Glow" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Forest" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Fresco" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Glacier" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Green with White Lines" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Keyboard" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Light Blue Shapes" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Noise Paper" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Notebook" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Numbers of Dark Background" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Red Noise Shapes" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Rounded Rectangles" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Technical Polygon" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Tunnel" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Water" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "White Blue and Lightnings" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Wine" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Introducing a New Product" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...
    "Recommendations of a Strategy" Background: Bullets: Fonts: ...