Beamer: Creating a slide with short, centered, prominent text

Question

Between the introductory slides and the meat of my presentation done in Beamer, I would like to add one slide with the text: "Coming up: Our Work". Or some such. This is the only text on this slide, and it should appear centered on the slide. Is there a built-in and/or recommended way of doing this?

If there is no built-in way to make such a "filler slide between sections", I guess I could typeset a single slide with the required text centered on the page using \hfill and \vfill "on all sides" of the text. But what would be a good font/color scheme for this text? In particular, if I wanted this text to look like a frame title, but centered on the page, then how could I achieve this? What are the font commands for this, and is hfill/vfill a good way to center text on the slide?

Answer 1

A blank slide is easy to produce by adding the argument plain. By also adding c you center the text on the page (you also have the options t: top and b: bottom). Note that you must also omit the frame title.

\begin{frame}[plain,c]
%\frametitle{A first slide}

\begin{center}
\Huge Coming up: Our Work
\end{center}

\end{frame}

As for text type face and colour, I do not want to make any specific suggestions. For the type face, use the type face you use in the presentation, mixing too many type faces udually is not a good idea. The colour depnds on you colour scheme. If you want it to "scream" then use red or some other bright colour. You can always chose something that clearly deviates from the colour scheme you use but on the whole having too many colours that do not fit the scheme may jsut make the presentation look messy.