About this design
Where the Art Deco style comes from, and what it signals.
Art Deco borrows its geometry from the 1920s originals: the sunburst crowns of Manhattan skyscraper lobbies, the stepped ziggurat silhouettes of the era's towers, and the double-rule frames of period poster work. The palette is the jewel-tone pairing the period is known for, near-black emerald #0E1512 under flat gold #D4AF37 and champagne text #EFE3C0, with antique-gold hairlines #6F5B30 doing the framing. Gold follows a strict 60-30-10 discipline: emerald surfaces dominate, champagne type is secondary, and gold stays an accent for ornament and numerals.
The type system is three Google Fonts. Cinzel, drawn from Roman inscriptional capitals, sets every title in uppercase with 0.14em letter-spacing and supplies the big gold numerals; Marcellus handles kickers and labels at 0.22em tracking; Tenor Sans carries body copy in #C9C3B0. Every motif, the sunburst fan, the chevron zigzag band, the fan-arch stat cards, is built from CSS gradients and borders rather than images, so the style survives regeneration without drifting into clip art.
This is a theme for decks that want occasion: gala programs, luxury hospitality and real estate pitches, anniversary retrospectives, and any presentation trading on 1920s glamour. It references the era generically, with no film or brand assets, so a Gatsby-flavored event deck is fair game.
Use it for
- Gala, awards-night and fundraiser event programs
- Luxury hospitality, restaurant and boutique hotel pitches
- Heritage real estate and restoration investment decks
- Anniversary and year-in-review retrospectives with a sense of occasion
- Wedding and private-event proposals with a 1920s brief
Skip it for
- Dense quarterly business reviews; the ornament competes with heavy tables, so use QBR instead
- Minimal product launches where the product should be the only decoration; Keynote Minimal is the better fit
- Bright rooms with weak projectors, where the dark emerald ground washes out; pick a light theme like Letterhead
The presentation design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Art Deco' theme, a 1920s jazz-age deck in deep emerald and flat gold. Background: near-black emerald (#0E1512); content panels sit on #16241F with sharp 90-degree corners and a 1px antique-gold border (#6F5B30) plus a second inset hairline 6px inside it, the signature double-rule deco frame. Typography: slide titles in 'Cinzel', uppercase, letter-spacing 0.14em, champagne (#EFE3C0), always centered, with a centered ornament beneath: a 60px hairline in #6F5B30, an 8px rotated-square gold diamond (#D4AF37), another 60px hairline; kickers and labels in 'Marcellus', uppercase, letter-spacing 0.22em, 11 to 13px, gold; body copy and axis labels in 'Tenor Sans' (#C9C3B0); big numerals in 'Cinzel' gold, agenda numbering in Roman numerals (I to IV). The signature motif is a semicircular sunburst fan built with repeating-conic-gradient(from -90deg, #D4AF37 0deg 1.5deg, transparent 1.5deg 10deg), clipped by border-radius, at 35 to 50 percent opacity, placed symmetrically behind or above title blocks, never as an image. Composition is strictly symmetric everywhere. Title slide: the sunburst rising behind a Cinzel title with a Marcellus gold subtitle, wrapped in the double-rule frame with 12px L-shaped gold corner brackets. Agenda: two symmetric columns of Roman-numbered items separated by 1px #3A3322 hairlines, with a chevron zigzag band (135deg gold repeating-linear-gradient stripes mirrored by a 45deg twin) under the title. KPI slides: four fan-arch stat cards whose top edge is a semicircle arch (border-radius 999px 999px 0 0) filled with the sunburst gradient, metric beneath in Cinzel gold. Charts are flat divs: bars in #D4AF37, then #46A08B, #C25E6A, #ADB5B0, each with a 1px #EFE3C0 top cap, gridlines #3A3322, baseline #6F5B30, value callouts in Cinzel gold. Tables: Marcellus gold headers over a double rule (1px #D4AF37 over 1px #6F5B30), body rows split by #3A3322 hairlines, numerals right-aligned. Frameworks use a stepped ziggurat of 3 to 5 centered #2E2816 blocks with #6F5B30 borders, each wider than the one above. Footer: a full-width #6F5B30 hairline, the deck name in Marcellus uppercase #948E76 flanked by two tiny gold diamonds, page number in Cinzel at far right. Keep gold under 10 percent of any slide. Strictly avoid: Broadway novelty lettering and Gatsby party-invitation scripts; metallic gradients, bevels or shadows on gold; feathers, pearls, champagne glasses, confetti, glitter; rounded corners or pill buttons; asymmetric or ragged-left titles; solid gold backgrounds; pure #000000 or pure #FFFFFF; lowercase display headlines; raster sunburst images or emoji; modern blue or purple accents. Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHub
How to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Art Deco deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Art Deco on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Art Deco presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Art Deco presentation design prompt in practice.
