About this design
Where the Christmas style comes from, and what it signals.
Christmas borrows from letterpress holiday cards and mid-century gift wrap instead of clipart: a cream #faf6ec paper base, thin gold keylines set just inside card edges, and string lights redrawn as a working motif, a dotted #c9b98a line threaded with pine, berry and gold bulbs that serves as the agenda spine and the year-in-review timeline. The festive elements live in the margins and rules; the content grid underneath stays rectangular, calm and unmistakably a business document.
Headlines are Playfair Display in deep pine #1b4332 under a berry red #9b2226 small-caps kicker and a short gold #c0902e rule; body copy is Source Sans 3 in #3d4a40, and Caveat appears only as a handwritten accent on gift-tag chips and one aside per slide. Charts keep to four flat colors with berry reserved for the single highlight, so a December bar reads as the point of the exhibit rather than decoration, and gold never appears as a fill, only as thin rules, numeral caps and four-point stars.
This is a format for teams closing out the year: the December all-hands that pairs a KPI recap with the party run of show, holiday event invitations, seasonal campaign reviews, or a classroom end-of-term celebration. It stays festive without ever asking the audience to squint past a snowfall overlay.
Use it for
- Company year-in-review decks presented at a December all-hands
- Holiday party invitations, schedules and run-of-show decks
- Seasonal retail or e-commerce campaign recaps with monthly charts
- Classroom, club or team end-of-year celebration presentations
Skip it for
- Board meetings or investor updates delivered after the first week of January; the seasonal framing dates instantly, use Boardroom instead
- Formal consulting-style strategy documents; reach for McKinsey Style, where the structure carries the authority
- Somber announcements such as restructurings or budget cuts; string lights read wrong above hard news, use Memo
The presentation design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Christmas' theme, a festive year-end style built like a letterpress holiday card. Background: cream paper (#faf6ec); content sits on #fffdf6 cards bordered 1px #e6dcc4; hero cards add an inset 1px gold keyline (#c0902e) 8px inside the edge. Typography: 'Playfair Display' headlines and stat figures, 'Source Sans 3' body at 16 to 18px in #3d4a40, and 'Caveat' as a handwritten accent on chips and asides, never above 20px or twice per slide. Every header: a berry (#9b2226) small-caps kicker (12px, 0.14em tracking), a 40px by 2px gold rule, then a 40 to 48px Playfair Display headline in deep pine (#1b4332). Title slide: a centered keylined card, pine sprig ellipse clusters at 25% opacity in two corners, the kicker 'HOLIDAY EDITION' plus the current year, a 56px title, presenter and date in muted small caps. Agenda: five bauble numerals, 36px pine circles with cream numbers and tiny gold rectangle caps, hung from one 2px dotted #c9b98a string-lights line. KPI slide: four cream stat tiles with Playfair figures, the hero tile marked by a 2px gold top border, above a flat 12-bar monthly column chart in pine with the December bar in berry, 1px #e9e0cc gridlines and 11px #6f7d70 axis labels. Timeline slide: a string of lights, 10px bulbs alternating pine, berry and gold, five larger 14px bulbs for key months, each with a card below, a gold four-point star at the terminus. Party slide: a schedule table with a pine header row, cream small-caps labels and zebra rows (#fffdf6 and #f4eeda) beside gift-tag chips (#e3ede6 fill, pine border, hole-punch dot, Caveat label). Closing: three starred recommendation cards, a lights divider, then a centered Playfair thank-you with a berry small-caps RSVP line. Footer: hairline #e6dcc4, the deck name in 11px small caps, the page number in a 22px gold-outlined circle. Gold stays thin: rules, caps, stars and strokes only, at most three stars per slide. Strictly avoid: clipart Santas, reindeer, cartoon snowmen, candy canes or emoji-style icons; adjacent pure #ff0000 red and #00ff00 green; metallic gradient or glitter gold; snowfall overlays, bokeh backgrounds or pattern washes behind text; script, blackletter or novelty Santa fonts; red text on green fills or the reverse; stock photos of office parties or gift piles; drop shadows, bevels or gloss on baubles; more than one string-lights motif per slide or lights as a full-slide border; cluttered margins that stop the deck reading as a business document. 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 Christmas 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 Christmas 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 Christmas presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Christmas presentation design prompt in practice.
