I wanted to give a little bit of background on the motivation behind this post. For a while, I've been making academic posters using PowerPoint, Keynote, or Adobe Illustrator, and while it's possible to get a high-quality result from these tools, I've always been frustrated by the amount of manual effort required to do so: having to calculate positions of elements by hand, manually laying out content, manually propagating style changes over the iterative process of poster design...
For writing papers (and even homework assignments), I had switched to LaTeX a long time ago, but for posters, I will still using these frustrating GUI-based tools. The main reason was the lack of a modern-looking poster theme: there were existing LaTeX poster templates and themes out there, but most of them felt 20 years old.
A couple weeks ago, I had to design a number of posters for a conference, and I finally decided to take the leap and force myself to use LaTeX to build a poster. During the process, I ended up designing a poster theme that I liked, and I've open-sourced the resulting theme, hoping that it'll help make LaTeX and beamerposter slightly more accessible to people who want a modern and stylish looking poster without spending a lot of time on reading the beamerposter manual and working on design and aesthetics.
Hi HN, author here.
I wanted to give a little bit of background on the motivation behind this post. For a while, I've been making academic posters using PowerPoint, Keynote, or Adobe Illustrator, and while it's possible to get a high-quality result from these tools, I've always been frustrated by the amount of manual effort required to do so: having to calculate positions of elements by hand, manually laying out content, manually propagating style changes over the iterative process of poster design...
For writing papers (and even homework assignments), I had switched to LaTeX a long time ago, but for posters, I will still using these frustrating GUI-based tools. The main reason was the lack of a modern-looking poster theme: there were existing LaTeX poster templates and themes out there, but most of them felt 20 years old.
A couple weeks ago, I had to design a number of posters for a conference, and I finally decided to take the leap and force myself to use LaTeX to build a poster. During the process, I ended up designing a poster theme that I liked, and I've open-sourced the resulting theme, hoping that it'll help make LaTeX and beamerposter slightly more accessible to people who want a modern and stylish looking poster without spending a lot of time on reading the beamerposter manual and working on design and aesthetics.
It looks great. You should consider putting it as a template on Overleaf.
That's a great idea -- I've submitted it to Overleaf.