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Slide templates

Build brand slide decks from 14 layouts with speaker notes and slide numbers, then export a slide as PNG or SVG or the whole deck as one PDF.

Last updated Oct 14, 2026

Slide templates (tool ID slides) builds slide decks. It is one of the expression tools. A new deck has five slides built from the identity:

  1. A title slide with the tagline as the title and the promise as the subtitle.
  2. An agenda of the identity's strategy pillars.
  3. A proof slide. It shows the identity's figures as metrics, or its customer logos as a proof wall, or a statement when it has neither.
  4. A quote in the identity's voice.
  5. A closing slide with the wordmark and website.
General Translation title slide in the slide editor with the deck list and content inspector
Title slide1600 × 900 · dark chrome
Stripe metrics slide with two proof figures and their labels
Metrics slideStripe · light chrome

Slides

The Slides section lists every slide with its number and a live thumbnail. Click a slide to edit it. Add slide inserts a slide after the current one in the layout chosen in New slide layout (Statement by default). Duplicate slide, Move slide up, Move slide down and Delete slide act on the current slide. To reorder, drag a thumbnail, or focus it and press Alt + ↑ or Alt + ↓.

Each slide has its own layout. The Slide library section applies one of 14 layouts to the current slide. Each layout ID is the lowercase layout name.

LayoutIDContent
TitletitleA title and a subtitle. The subtitle is left out when it repeats the title
SectionsectionA section number and a headline
AgendaagendaUp to 5 numbered items
SplitsplitA headline beside an image or the brand device
MetricsmetricsUp to 3 proof figures with labels, or a proof wall
QuotequoteA line in the brand voice with an attribution
TimelinetimelineUp to 4 steps on a line
StatementstatementOne large centered statement
ComparisoncomparisonThe identity's challenge beside its promise
ProcessprocessUp to 4 steps
ChartchartA bar chart beside a figure or the promise
TeamteamUp to 3 people as initials in circles with names
ImageimageA headline beside a framed image or the brand device
ClosingclosingThe wordmark, a closing line and the website

Metrics and Chart use the identity's numeric proof. An identity with fewer than two figures gets a proof wall on Metrics instead. The proof wall shows the identity's customer logos as one lockup, or its customer names in the display face, or its proof claims as a ruled list. Chart shows the identity's first figure beside the bars, or its promise when it has no figure. The chart's Values · comma separated and Labels · comma separated fields start with placeholder data for every identity (Q1 to Q5 with 42, 68, 55, 88 and 100), so replace them with real figures. Comparison labels its two panels at their foot with "Before" and "With" followed by the identity name.

Switching layouts keeps the slide's text. The headline, list items, metrics and labels move into the new layout. Text that the new layout has no place for comes back when you switch again.

Content controls

  • Content has Title, Typography role and Font weight (100–550) for the headline of the current slide.
  • Body or list · one item per line sets the list items of agenda, timeline, process, comparison and team slides.
  • Speaker notes are stored with the slide.
  • Surface chooses Base white, Base dark, Grid or Noise for the current slide. Add background image, Brand background asset and Background image opacity place and fade an image behind it.

Any text layer can show slide numbers with {page} and {pages}, for example {page} / {pages}. Both numbers are padded to two digits. Templates put the wordmark at the top left, the website at the bottom left and the slide number at the bottom right. The closing slide has the wordmark and website only.

Type rules

Slides follow the shared type scale in Expression tools. On a 16:9 slide, a title is 6–8% of the slide height (67 px on 1600 × 900), and content headlines stay at or below 6% (50 px). Display text has negative tracking, kerning is on, and no layout has a label above its headline.

Formats and export

Formats are 16x9 (1600 × 900), 4x3 (1600 × 1200) and square (1200 × 1200). A format change re-flows every slide.

  • Export PNG renders the current slide at 2×.
  • More exports → Export SVG downloads the current slide as an SVG.
  • More exports → Export PDF deck renders every slide at 2× into one PDF. Each page is a lossless, Flate-compressed image placed at 0.75 pt per pixel, so a 16:9 slide becomes a 1200 × 675 pt page. The PDF leaves out the speaker notes. The file is studio-slides.pdf.

Browser actions

ActionUse
slides.export.png / slides.export.svgExport the current slide
slides.export.pdfExport every slide as one PDF
slides.slide.add / slides.slide.duplicate / slides.slide.move / slides.slide.remove / slides.slide.selectDeck management
slides.document.describeFormat, layouts, slides and layers
slides.layer.add / slides.layer.update / slides.layer.remove / slides.layer.duplicateLayer edits
slides.layer.reorder / slides.layer.select / slides.layer.alignStack order, selection and alignment
slides.format.set / slides.layout.apply / slides.template.resetFormat, layout (with an optional pageId) and template
slides.history.undo / slides.history.redoHistory
  • slides.slide.add takes { layout?, index? } and returns { pageId }. The default layout is statement, and the default position is after the current slide. The new slide becomes the current slide.
  • slides.slide.duplicate takes { pageId? } (default: the current slide) and returns { pageId }.
  • slides.slide.move takes { pageId, index }.
  • slides.slide.remove and slides.slide.select take { pageId }. A deck keeps at least one slide.

slides.export.png and slides.export.svg export the current slide. To export another slide, select it first. See Expression tools for the shared actions.

HTTP

POST /api/generate with { kind: 'template', template: 'slides', slideLayout?, format?, title?, body? } renders one slide as an SVG. body fills the list items, one per line. See Generation API.

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