# Beamer: Custom styles for environments

In beamer, there are some predefined (colour) styles like plain, theorem, definition and remark. My first question is where can I find the list of these styles? and the second one is how can I create my own style? For instance, I want to apply orange colour for remarks.

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Have a look at the end of the file beamerinnerthemedefault.sty –  percusse Jul 14 '13 at 8:53

Here's how you can easily define new customized theorem-like blocks; the idea is to define a new style with customized settings, and then use this new style for your structures:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}

\makeatletter
\def\th@mystyle{%
\normalfont % body font
\setbeamercolor{block title example}{bg=orange,fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{block body example}{bg=orange!20,fg=black}
\def\inserttheoremblockenv{exampleblock}
}
\makeatother
\theoremstyle{mystyle}
\newtheorem*{remark}{Remark}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{theorem}[An important theorem]
Some text
\end{theorem}

\begin{remark}[Some important remark]
Some text
\end{remark}
\end{frame}

\end{document}


## Relevant settings for definition of theorem-like structures:

In the file beamerbasetheorems.sty you find:

\def\th@example{\th@remark}


and

\ifbeamer@countsect
\newtheorem{theorem}{\translate{Theorem}}[section]
\else
\newtheorem{theorem}{\translate{Theorem}}
\fi
\newtheorem{corollary}[theorem]{\translate{Corollary}}
\newtheorem{fact}[theorem]{\translate{Fact}}
\newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{\translate{Lemma}}
\newtheorem{problem}[theorem]{\translate{Problem}}
\newtheorem{solution}[theorem]{\translate{Solution}}

\theoremstyle{definition}
\newtheorem{definition}[theorem]{\translate{Definition}}
\newtheorem{definitions}[theorem]{\translate{Definitions}}

\theoremstyle{example}
\newtheorem{example}[theorem]{\translate{Example}}
\newtheorem{examples}[theorem]{\translate{Examples}}


which means that the example style is the same as the remark style; the plain style is used for theorems, corollaries, lemmas, problems, solutions. The definition style applies to definitions, and the example style, to examples.

Also relevant might be the lines

\def\inserttheoremheadfont{\the\thm@headfont}
\def\inserttheoremblockenv{block}

\def\th@example{%
\normalfont % body font
\def\inserttheoremblockenv{exampleblock}
}


which show basically that for the example style, exampleblock is used, but for all other theorem-like structures block is used.

In beamerbaseauxtemplates.sty one finds:

\defbeamertemplate{theorem begin}{ams style}
{%
\begin{\inserttheoremblockenv}
{%
\inserttheoremname
\inserttheoremnumber
\inserttheorempunctuation
}%
}

\defbeamertemplate{theorem end}{ams style}
{\end{\inserttheoremblockenv}}

\defbeamertemplate{theorem begin}{numbered}
{%
\begin{\inserttheoremblockenv}
{%
\inserttheoremname
\inserttheoremnumber
}%
}

\defbeamertemplate{theorem end}{numbered}
{\end{\inserttheoremblockenv}}

\defbeamertemplate{theorem begin}{normal font}
{
\normalfont
\begin{\inserttheoremblockenv}
{%
\inserttheoremname