Written: May 04 2020
Updated: January 07 2021
λέξις (lexis) is a theme for the xaringan R package for making slides. It has a light gray background and uses Fira Sans Condensed for headers, Inter for body text, and SFMono-Regular for mono text (i.e. code). The theme copies ideas from several other themes, most notably from Allison Hill’s xaringan workshop. It also uses many of the wonderful features from Garrick Aden-Buie’s xaringanExtra package.
The easiest way to use this theme is to download and use the demo template:
When communicating an idea to others, there is a fundamental difference between the content of what is be communicated and the form of how it is communicated. Aristotle phrased this as the difference between λόγος (logos), the logical content of a speech, and λέξις (lexis), the style and delivery of a speech (see also this article on content versus form). Since the entire purpose of making a xaringan theme is to customize the form of how content is delivered, “lexis” seemed like an appropriate name.
