Peano: a minimal & modern Beamer theme

Peano is a PDFLaTeX-compatible Beamer theme developed by myself, and possibly others in the future, for use in the CrypTo research group at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). The theme is named after the famous Turinese mathematician Giuseppe Peano, also the namesake of our department.

Compliance. The color palette is derived from , the new institutional color of Politecnico di Torino. Logos and corporate imagery from Politecnico di Torino were adopted in accordance with their most recent legal guidelines. However, the formal request for imagery use is still pending.

Authoring and Licensing

This theme was created starting from the excellent answer by Claudio Fiandrino on StackOverflow. Inspiration mainly came from a Beamer theme by Giacomo Borin and Leonardo Errati (myself).

The theme is distributed under the GNU General Public License v3 (or later if available). You may redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL. No warranty is provided, either expressed or implied.

Installation and Usage

1. Download the .sty files an add them in the root repository of your LaTeX project.
2. Load the theme in your main document:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{peano} 

3. Define author, date, and other metadata.

\title{Presentation Title}
\author{Author Name}
\date{Date}

Q&A

Q: Can I edit the colours of the theme?

A: They can be modified in beamercolorthemepeano.sty style file via their HEX values.

Q: Can it be used for other groups/departments in Politecnico di Torino?

A: That is possible via removal of the CrypTo logos from beamerouterthemepeano.sty and beamerinnerthemepeano.sty, then substituting them with the desired logos (or none at all). I reckon I will probably add support for integrating any logos via package options, but that will require some time.

Q: Isn't the footer small?

A: Indeed. Support for shortened author, title, date fields (e.g. \date[EC26]{Eurocrypt 2026}) is intentionally not implemented: simplicity is a feature. Although I might add some customization via package options in the future.