About this design
Where the Chevron style comes from, and what it signals.
Chevron borrows its organizing metaphor from civil engineering and program management: the gantt chart, the phase gate, the milestone diamond. The fat right-pointing arrow banners descend from the swimlane flowcharts that hang in operations centers, translated into a typographic form that works at presentation scale.
Headlines in Archivo, a sturdy grotesque, carry full-sentence action titles in navy #1E3A8A beneath a hairline rule. The designer draws phase arrows as clip-path polygons, 60px tall, the active phase filled solid navy and the others outlined at 1.5px so the audience tracks where they are. Amber #F59E0B is reserved for gates and the single dashed 'Today' line on the gantt. Sky blue #60A5FA marks supporting workstreams.
A steering committee reviewing this deck can read phase status, workstream progress, and the distance to the next gate without hunting. Use it when the audience owns a program's outcome and needs to track decisions against a timeline.
Use it for
- Program status readouts for steering committees
- Capital project reviews with phase gates
- Operations transformation decks mid-program
- Roadmap presentations with hard delivery dates
- PMO quarterly updates for executive sponsors
Skip it for
- Strategy decks without a timeline; the arrow row implies a sequence that may not exist
- Creative or product pitches where the phases-and-gates idiom reads as bureaucratic
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Chevron' theme, a program management deck. Background: pure white (#FFFFFF). Typography: headlines in the sturdy grotesque 'Archivo' and body text in 'Inter' (both Google Fonts); action titles as full sentences in navy (#1E3A8A) with a hairline rule beneath; secondary text in gray (#6B7280). Signature motifs: fat chevron process arrows, a horizontal row of right pointing arrow banners 44 to 60px tall cut as clip path polygons with an 18px point, numbered Phase 1 through 4; the current phase filled navy (#1E3A8A) with white text, the others outlined 1.5px navy on white. A gantt strip with rounded full height bars per workstream in navy and sky (#60A5FA) over hairline month gridlines in #E5E7EB, crossed by one vertical dashed amber (#F59E0B) line labeled Today. Phase gates are small 10px amber diamonds, squares rotated 45 degrees. Strictly avoid: gradients, drop shadows, 3D effects, clip art, curved or swooshing arrows, amber used for anything except gates and alerts. 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 Chevron 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 Chevron 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 Chevron presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Chevron slide design prompt in practice.
