I'm using a table with alternating colors in beamer. Is there a way to base the colors I use on the palette that is already defined? In this way if I switch color themes the colors should still go well together.
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Section 17.2.2 “Using Beamer’s Colors” of the Beamer manual describes how to use preset colors: The command \usebeamercolor[fg]{<beamer color name>}
and \usebeamercolor[bg]{<beamer color name>}
set the current color to the foreground resp. background color given by beamer color name
. Typical values for beamer color name
are normal text
, structure
or alerted text
Of specific interest for you are probably the palette colors (see section 17.4 of the manual) palette primary
to palette quaternary
and palette sidebar primary
, etc. Themes are typically based on these colors.
You can also have a look at the beamer/themes/color/beamercolortheme*.sty
files (in the beamer installation dir, usually under $TEXMF/tex/latex/
) to see what colors are typically defined by a color theme.
(All section numbers refer to the beamer v3.10 manual.)