Slaide Theme Gallery: Every Master, Live
Every real Slaide theme in one gallery: the two bundled masters plus five custom masters from real decks, live previews and real YAML included.
A master is a small YAML file that defines a deck’s whole look as data: fonts, colors, gradients, layouts, and chrome. Swap the master: line in a deck’s headmatter and every slide restyles, content untouched. This page is every real master that exists, bundled or built for an actual deck, with nothing invented.
Bundled with the CLI
These two ship inside the @aivorynet/slaide npm package’s themes/ folder. slaide themes lists them; both are Apache-2.0.
Aurora - the default
A refined dark theme with a serif display face and an electric-blue accent. Aurora is what you get when a deck’s headmatter has no master: line at all.
No screenshot for this one on purpose: Aurora is the theme behind most of the plain deck examples already in the docs, so a dedicated preview would just repeat them. Its own header is a fair preview of what it is:
schema: slaide/1
name: aurora
description: A refined dark theme with a serif display face and an electric-blue accent.
Use it by leaving master: out of the deck’s headmatter entirely, as documented in the master file reference.
Blank - the neutral starting point
A minimal white placeholder theme built on Open Sans. It is not meant to be a finished look, it is the bare skeleton the CLI ships as its second bundled master, deliberately plain so a fresh deck reads as neutral rather than half-designed.
schema: slaide/1
name: blank
description: A minimal white placeholder theme (Open Sans). Meant to be replaced by a real theme.
Reference any master the same documented way: master: ./blank.slaide.yaml, once you have a copy of the file. Most people use it as the skeleton to build a real theme on top of, per Authoring a theme.
Custom masters, built for real decks
These five are not bundled with the CLI. Each one is a real master written for a specific deck. They are here because a theme gallery with only two entries is not much of a gallery, and because they are the clearest proof that the master format can hold a genuinely different visual identity every time. Copy the pattern in Authoring a theme to build your own; these files themselves are not published for download.
Slaide Brand
The house theme this website’s own homepage runs on: warm cream paper, a slate-to-azure gradient, IBM Plex Sans, Fraunces, and JetBrains Mono. It is the theme behind the live deck embedded on the Slaide homepage itself.
schema: slaide/1
name: slaide-brand
description: >-
The slaide house theme - warm cream surface, slate-to-azure brand gradient,
IBM Plex Sans + Fraunces + JetBrains Mono. Dark-glow cover/closing.
Pulse
A YC seed-stage pitch theme: near-black ground, one electric-coral accent, oversized geometric-grotesque type built to read from across a room. It is the theme shown on the homepage’s theme strip as “yc,” and the one behind the pitch deck in What 6,000 Pitch Decks Taught One VC Fund.
schema: slaide/1
name: pulse
description: >-
PULSE - a YC seed-stage pitch theme. Near-black ground, one electric-coral
accent, oversized geometric-grotesque type. Built to read from across a room.
Ember & Oat
An artsy independent roastery zine: a risograph-warm palette of espresso, terracotta, and sage on oat paper, with an expressive display face and a typewriter mono for price tags. Shown on the homepage’s theme strip as “cafe.”
schema: slaide/1
name: ember-oat
description: >
Ember & Oat - an artsy independent roastery zine. Risograph-warm palette
(espresso, terracotta, riso-amber, sage) on oat paper.
Marbury & Stone
A premium, traditional law-firm identity: Oxford navy and ink on bone paper, one restrained brass accent, an old-style serif, and letterspaced labels. Shown on the homepage’s theme strip as “lawyer.”
schema: slaide/1
name: marbury
description: >
Marbury & Stone - a premium, traditional law-firm identity. Oxford navy and
ink on bone paper, a single restrained brass accent.
Ascend
A YC space-elevator pitch theme: a cosmic deep-space palette of electric cyan and violet on near-black, with Space Grotesk display and body and JetBrains Mono kickers. There is no live demo of this one on this site, only the deck it was built for, so here is the actual slide instead of an iframe:
schema: slaide/1
name: ascend
description: >
Ascend - a YC space-elevator pitch. Cosmic deep-space palette (electric cyan
+ violet on near-black), Space Grotesk display/body, JetBrains Mono kickers.
See it in context in The Exact Prompt I Use to Generate an Investor Deck.
One theme left out
The product’s examples folder has at least one more custom master (a dark pitch-deck theme called Vela) that has no live demo or screenshot published anywhere on this site yet, so it is not in this gallery. Seven real themes beats padding the count with one nobody can actually see.
Build your own
All seven of these prove the same point: the master format holds wildly different visual identities without touching a line of deck content. Authoring a theme walks through fonts, colors, gradients, backgrounds, chrome, and layouts from a blank file. If you just want a working deck today, start from Aurora and reskin it.