Circadia Lab Quarto/RevealJS presentation template.
A ready-to-use Quarto RevealJS slide template matching the Circadia Lab visual identity — Playfair Display headings, Alice body text, navy/coral/cream colour palette, and the split-panel cover slide.
Clone or use as a GitHub template to start a new presentation in seconds. Every push to main automatically re-renders the slides and publishes them to a public GitHub Pages URL — no manual export required.
# 1. Click "Use this template" on GitHub and name your new repo
# 2. Clone it
git clone https://github.com/circadia-bio/YOUR-REPO-NAME.git
cd YOUR-REPO-NAME
# 3. Edit the params block at the top of index.qmd
# 4. Preview locally
quarto preview index.qmd
# 5. Commit and push — slides deploy automatically
git add -A
git commit -m "✨ feat: initial slide content"
git pushSee guide/getting-started.md for a full step-by-step guide.
SlidesTemplate/
├── index.qmd # ⭐ Your presentation — edit this
├── custom.scss # Circadia Lab theme (fonts, colours, layout)
├── _quarto.yml # Quarto project config
├── SlidesTemplate.Rproj # RStudio project file
├── assets/
│ ├── cover.png # Cover slide background
│ ├── circadia_logo.png # Watermark shown on every content slide
│ └── northumbria.png # Northumbria University logo on cover
├── .github/
│ └── workflows/
│ └── deploy.yml # Auto-render + deploy to GitHub Pages
├── guide/
│ ├── getting-started.md # Full setup and authoring guide
│ ├── slide-reference.md # All available classes and layouts
│ └── github-pages.md # How to enable and use GitHub Pages
- YAML params cover — set title, subtitle, presenter, and event once at the top of the file; the cover slide renders them automatically
- Cover slide — full-bleed background with right-aligned title, subtitle, presenter, date; footer and logo hidden automatically
- Content slides — cream background, Playfair Display titles, Alice body, coral em-dash bullets
.intro— mid-blue introductory paragraph.cta— coral bold accent line.smaller— scale down font on content-heavy slides- Two-column layouts —
:::: {.columns}with sensible defaults - Circadia logo watermark — 35% opacity, auto-hidden on cover
- Auto-deploy — GitHub Actions renders and publishes on every push
| Token | Hex | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Navy | #004474 |
Titles, primary text |
| Blue | #1B6799 |
Subtitles, intro text, footer |
| Coral | #FC544A |
Bullets, bold emphasis, CTAs |
| Cream | #FAEBD7 |
Slide background |
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
guide/getting-started.md |
Installation, first render, params, R packages, renv |
guide/slide-reference.md |
Every class, layout, and formatting option |
guide/github-pages.md |
Enabling Pages, custom domains, troubleshooting |
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Developer / Researcher | Lucas França |
| Researcher | Mario Leocadio-Miguel |
- 🌙 SleepDiaries — participant-facing sleep diary app
- 📋 ScoreMe — research questionnaire scorer
- 🛏 slumbR — R companion for Sleep Diaries exports
- 🧮 tallieR — R companion for ScoreMe exports
- 🔬 circadia-bio — the Circadia Lab GitHub organisation
Released under the MIT License.
Copyright © Circadia Lab — Lucas França & Mario Leocadio-Miguel