[Tex/LaTex] Changing the font family of the mini-navigation in the ‘Frankfurt’ beamer theme

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I am currently in process of tweaking the look of my beamer presentation and would like the navigational elements (TOC and mini-navigation, that is shipped alongside the Frankfurt theme) to use Sans-Serif fonts, while the rest of the presentation is supposed to use Roman fonts.

This wasn't such a problem for the TOC, but I have trouble correctly selecting the text above the navigational circles.

Referring to this answer, I tried to use mini, but that didn't change anything.

Here is the current code snippet:

\setbeamerfont{mini}{family=\sf}
\setbeamerfont{section in toc}{size=\scriptsize,family=\sf}
\setbeamerfont{subsection in toc}{size=\tiny,family=\sf}

Best Answer

I'm afraid I'm not completely sure what you want to achieve, as sans fonts are the same as sans-serif fonts, that is to say fonts without the little lines at the end of the strokes (like the one used on this website). I guess you're using something like

\usefonttheme{serif}

to get a serif typeface for the normal text of your presentation, but you still want to retain the default sans-serif typeface in the headline. This can be achieved by changing the beamer theme section in head/foot:

\setbeamerfont{section in head/foot}{family=\sffamily}

(using \sffamily instead of the deprecated \sf).

Full example code

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Frankfurt}
\usefonttheme{serif}
\setbeamerfont{section in head/foot}{family=\sffamily}
\begin{document}
\section{Section 1}
\subsection{Subsection}
\frame{Serif typeface}\frame{Serif typeface}\frame{Serif typeface}
\section{Section 2}
\subsection{Subsection}
\frame{Serif typeface}\frame{Serif typeface}\frame{Serif typeface}\frame{Serif typeface}\frame{Serif typeface}
\section{Section 3}
\subsection{Subsection}
\frame{Serif typeface}\frame{Serif typeface}
\end{document}

frame showing text in serif typeface in combination with a sans-serif header

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The navigation symbols are those normally placed at the bottom. To remove the circles you mentioned you can use:
```
\setbeamertemplate{mini frames}{}
```
Maybe you could use my answer from here?

[Tex/LaTex] Customize mini frame navigation

As said in the comments, the right way to proceed is to define separately the two templates headline and frametitle.

Here is a possible implementation (as test image I used the logo of my university):

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lmodern}
%=====================================================================
% Color definition

% Setzt Deep Harlequin (dunkler)  
\definecolor{jvagreen}{RGB}{22, 89, 0}

% Setzt Vivid Gold (dunkler)
\definecolor{jvagold}{RGB}{231, 202, 0}

% Farbe der Elemente der headline
\setbeamercolor{section in head/foot}{fg = jvagold, bg = jvagreen}

%=====================================================================
% Templates - headline, frametitle

\makeatletter
% Komprimiert die miniframe Kreise auf eine Linie
\beamer@compresstrue
\makeatother

% Definiert die headline
\setbeamertemplate{headline}
{ 
\includegraphics[width=0.15\paperwidth]{logopolito} % test logo
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.85\paperwidth,right]{section in head/foot}
    \rule{0.85\paperwidth}{1pt}
    %Vertikaler Abstand
    \vskip10pt
    %Fügt die Standard-Navi ein (miniframes)
    \insertnavigation{0.85\paperwidth}
    \vskip8pt
    \rule{0.85\paperwidth}{0.5pt}
    \vskip27.5pt % same height of the example provided, but IMHO is too much
    \rule{0.85\paperwidth}{1pt}
\end{beamercolorbox} 
}

% definition of the frametitle
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}
{
\vskip-24pt % to shift up the frametitle
\hbox{ 
 \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.0675\textwidth]{} % left shift
 \end{beamercolorbox} 
 \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=4pt]{section in head/foot}
 \insertframetitle
 \end{beamercolorbox} 
 }
}

\begin{document}
\section{Test 1}
\subsection{first}
\begin{frame}{A title}
hello
\end{frame}

\subsection{second}
\begin{frame}{A second title}
hello
\end{frame}

\section{Test 2}
\subsection{first}
\begin{frame}{Another title}
hello
\end{frame}

\subsection{second}
\begin{frame}{A second title}
hello
\end{frame}

\section{Test 3}
\subsection{first}
\begin{frame}{Last title}
hello
\end{frame}

\subsection{second}
\begin{frame}{A second title}
hello
\end{frame}

\subsection{second}
\begin{frame}{A third title}
hello
\end{frame}
\end{document}

The final result is:

enter image description here

Best Answer

Full example code

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