Title page themes

Title page themes are pre-defined sets of titlepage-theme options. Themes can be used as a starting place and the page elements can be further customized by passing in titlepage-theme values.

a static LaTeX file

You can pass in a static file. If you do so, this will be used as the title page and the titlepage-theme will be ignored.

    titlepage: yourtexfile.tex

vline

    titlepage: vline 
    titlepage-logo: "img/logo.png"
    titlepage-theme:
      elements: ["\\titleblock", "\\authorblock", "\\vfill", "\\affiliationblock",  "\\logoblock", "\\footerblock"]
      page-align: "left"
      title-style: "plain"
      title-fontstyle: ["large", "bfseries"]
      title-space-after: "4\\baselineskip"
      subtitle-fontstyle: ["large", "textit"]
      author-style: "superscript-with-and"
      author-fontstyle: "large"
      affiliation-style: "numbered-list-with-correspondence"
      affiliation-fontstyle: "large"
      affiliation-space-after: "0pt"
      footer-style: "plain"
      footer-fontstyle: "large"
      logo-size: "0.15\\textheight"
      logo-space-after: "1\\baselineskip"
      vrule-width: "2pt"
      vrule-align: "left"
      vrule-color: "black"

vline-text

    titlepage: vline 
    titlepage-logo: "img/logo.png"
    titlepage-theme:
      elements: ["\\titleblock", "\\authorblock", "\\vfill", "\\affiliationblock",  "\\logoblock", "\\footerblock"]
      page-align: "left"
      title-style: "plain"
      title-fontstyle: ["large", "bfseries"]
      title-space-after: "4\\baselineskip"
      subtitle-fontstyle: ["large", "textit"]
      author-style: "superscript-with-and"
      author-fontstyle: "large"
      affiliation-style: "numbered-list-with-correspondence"
      affiliation-fontstyle: "large"
      affiliation-space-after: "0pt"
      footer-style: plain"
      footer-fontstyle: "large"
      logo-size: "0.15\\textheight"
      logo-space-after: "1\\baselineskip"
      vrule-width: "0.5in"
      vrule-align: "left"
      vrule-color: "blue"
      vrule-text-color: "white"
      vrule-text-fontstyle: ["bfseries", "Large"]
      vrule-text: "Add your text in vrule-text"

colorbox

    titlepage: colorbox 
    titlepage-theme: 
      elements: ["\\titleblock", "\\vfill", "\\authorblock"]
      page-align: "left"
      title-style: "colorbox"
      title-fontsize: 100
      title-space-after: "2\\baselineskip"
      subtitle-fontsize: 25
      subtitle-fontstyle: "bfseries"
      title-subtitle-space-between: "5\\baselineskip"
      author-style: "plain",
      author-sep: "newline",
      author-fontstyle: "Large"
      author-align: "right"
      author-space-after: "2\\baselineskip"
      title-colorbox-borderwidth: "0.5cm"
      title-colorbox-bordercolor: "black"
      title-colorbox-fill: "cyan"

academic

    titlepage: academic
    titlepage-logo: "img/logo.png"
    titlepage-theme:
      elements: ["\\headerblock", "\\logoblock", "\\titleblock", "\\authorblock", "\\vfill", "\\dateblock"]
      page-align: "center"
      title-style: "doublelinetight"
      title-fontstyle: ["huge", "bfseries"]
      title-space-after: "1.5cm"
      subtitle-fontstyle: "Large"
      author-style: "two-column"
      affiliation-style: "none"
      author-fontstyle: "textsc"
      affiliation-fontstyle: "large"
      logo-space-after: "2\\baselineskip"
      header-fontstyle: ["textsc", "LARGE"]
      header-space-after: "1.5cm"
      date-fontstyle: "large"

bg-image

    titlepage: bg-image 
    titlepage-bg-image: "img/corner-bg.png"
    titlepage-logo: "img/logo.png"
    titlepage-geometry: ["top=3in", "bottom=1in", "right=1in", "left=1in"]
    titlepage-theme:
      elements: ["\\titleblock", "\\authorblock", "\\vfill", "\\affiliationblock",  "\\logoblock", "\\footerblock"]
      page-align: "left"
      title-style: "plain"
      title-fontstyle: ["large", "bfseries"]
      title-space-after: "4\\baselineskip"
      subtitle-fontstyle: ["large", "textit"]
      author-style: "superscript-with-and"
      author-fontstyle: "large"
      affiliation-style: "numbered-list-with-correspondence"
      affiliation-fontstyle: "large"
      affiliation-space-after: "0pt"
      footer-style: "plain"
      footer-fontstyle: "large"
      logo-size: "0.25\\textheight"
      logo-space-after: "2\\baselineskip"
      vrule-width: "1pt"
      bg-image-size: "0.5\\paperwidth"
      bg-image-location: "ULCorner"

formal

    titlepage: formal 
    titlepage-logo: "img/logo.png"
    titlepage-theme:
      elements: ["\\titleblock", "\\authorblock", "\\vfill", "A report presented at the annual\\\\meeting on 10 August 2025\\\\ \\vspace{0.8cm}",  "\\logoblock", "\\footerblock"]
      page-align: "center"
      title-style: "plain"
      title-fontstyle: ["Huge", "textbf"]
      title-space-after: "1.5cm"
      subtitle-fontstyle: "LARGE"
      title-subtitle-space-between: "0.5cm"
      author-style: "plain"
      author-sep: "newline"
      author-fontstyle: "textbf"
      author-space-after: "2\\baselineskip"
      affiliation-style: "numbered-list-with-correspondence"
      affiliation-fontstyle: "large"
      affiliation-space-after: "0pt"
      footer-style: "plain"
      footer-fontstyle: ["Large", "textsc"]
      footer-space-after: "0pt"
      logo-size: "0.4\\textwidth"
      logo-space-after: "1cm"

classic-lined

    titlepage: classic-lined 
    titlepage-logo: "img/logo.png"
    titlepage-theme:
      elements: ["\\titleblock", "\\authorblock", "\\vfill", "\\logoblock", "\\footerblock"]
      page-align: "center"
      title-style: "doublelinewide"
      title-fontsize: 30
      title-fontstyle: "uppercase"
      title-space-after: "0.1\\textheight"
      subtitle-fontstyle: ["Large", "textit"]
      author-style: "plain"
      author-sep: "\\hskip1em"
      author-fontstyle: "Large"
      author-space-after: "2\\baselineskip"
      affiliation-style: "numbered-list-with-correspondence"
      affiliation-fontstyle: "large"
      affiliation-space-after: "0pt"
      footer-style: "plain"
      footer-fontstyle: ["large", "textsc"]
      footer-space-after: "0pt"
      logo-size: "0.25\\textheight"
      logo-space-after: "1cm"