I would like to know a way to change the background color of the section page in the beamer metropolis theme.
I tried something like this:
\setbeamercolor{sectionpage}{fg=blue,bg=blue}
but it didn't work. Any ideas?
cheers,
[Tex/LaTex] Beamer metropolis theme: change color of section page
beamerbeamer-metropolis
Related Solutions
You need to load some more elements (and explicitly load TikZ) to reproduce metropolis title frame over a default beamer theme.
Following code just loads title frame format, used colors come from default theme.
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{title page}{
\begin{minipage}[b][\paperheight]{\textwidth}
\ifx\inserttitlegraphic\@empty\else\usebeamertemplate*{title graphic}\fi
\vfill%
\ifx\inserttitle\@empty\else\usebeamertemplate*{title}\fi
\ifx\insertsubtitle\@empty\else\usebeamertemplate*{subtitle}\fi
\usebeamertemplate*{title separator}
\ifx\beamer@shortauthor\@empty\else\usebeamertemplate*{author}\fi
\ifx\insertdate\@empty\else\usebeamertemplate*{date}\fi
\ifx\insertinstitute\@empty\else\usebeamertemplate*{institute}\fi
\vfill
\vspace*{1mm}
\end{minipage}
}
\def\maketitle{%
\ifbeamer@inframe
\titlepage
\else
\frame[plain,noframenumbering]{\titlepage}
\fi
}
\def\titlepage{%
\usebeamertemplate{title page}
}
\setbeamertemplate{title graphic}{
\vbox to 0pt {
\vspace*{2em}
\inserttitlegraphic%
}%
\nointerlineskip%
}
\setbeamertemplate{title}{
\raggedright%
\linespread{1.0}%
\inserttitle%
\par%
\vspace*{0.5em}
}
\setbeamertemplate{subtitle}{
\raggedright%
\insertsubtitle%
\par%
\vspace*{0.5em}
}
\newlength{\metropolis@titleseparator@linewidth}
\setlength{\metropolis@titleseparator@linewidth}{0.4pt}
\setbeamertemplate{title separator}{
\begin{tikzpicture}
\fill[fg] (0,0) rectangle (\textwidth, \metropolis@titleseparator@linewidth);
\end{tikzpicture}%
\par%
}
\setbeamertemplate{author}{
\vspace*{2em}
\insertauthor%
\par%
\vspace*{0.25em}
}
\setbeamertemplate{date}{
\insertdate%
\par%
}
\setbeamertemplate{institute}{
\vspace*{3mm}
\insertinstitute%
\par%
}
\makeatother
\author{John Doe}
\title{Presentation with Metropolis title frame}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{frame}{example frame}
text
\end{frame}
\end{document}
If you don't like the renewcommand, you could pass the image name as optional argument to the section page template.
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}
%%% Section page template with picture
\makeatletter
\defbeamertemplate*{section page}{mytheme}[1][]{
\centering
\begin{minipage}{22em}
\raggedright
\usebeamercolor[fg]{section title}
\usebeamerfont{section title}
\insertsectionhead\\[-1ex]
\usebeamertemplate*{progress bar in section page}
\par
\ifx\insertsubsectionhead\@empty\else%
\usebeamercolor[fg]{subsection title}%
\usebeamerfont{subsection title}%
\insertsubsectionhead
\fi
\vskip0.5cm
\ifstrempty{#1}{}{%
\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{#1}%
}
\end{minipage}
\par
\vspace{\baselineskip}
}
\makeatother
%%% Define a command to include picture in section,
%%% make section, and revert to old template
\newcommand{\sectionpic}[2]{
\setbeamertemplate{section page}[mytheme][#2]
\section{#1}
\setbeamertemplate{section page}[mytheme]
}
%%% Document
\begin{document}
\section{normal}
\begin{frame}
abc
\end{frame}
\sectionpic{image}{example-image}
\begin{frame}
abc
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
It is possible to do much damage to the aesthetic styles by changing colours on each frame so you need to avoid glaring contrasts like whot I have done.
I will simply point you a snippet producing the above frames generated by adding after the default title page