About this design
Where the Herbarium style comes from, and what it signals.
Herbarium takes its cues from nineteenth-century botanical field guides: the kind that pressed specimens between pages and labeled them in italic Latin. The background is warm paper white #FBF9F2; every heading is preceded by a figure caption in small uppercase Karla at wide tracking, formatted like 'Fig. 3 · Specimen of the week', which places each slide as a numbered entry in a larger collection.
Headings set in Crimson Pro serif at deep ink green #2F3526 sit above body text in #4C5240, both on paper white with no drop shadows or gradients. The decorative motifs are structural: thin-line SVG botanical sprigs at 1.5px stroke in leaf green #5A7048 bleed off corners and stand beside content; small specimen tags carry dashed #5A7048 borders around uppercase labels over italic Latin subtitles; a round faded stamp with two concentric circles and curved text appears in a corner at about 50 percent opacity.
It fits scientific communication, conservation reporting and nature education, and works for any presentation that relies on careful observation as its authority. The constraint against photographs is deliberate: the line drawings carry more precision than stock images.
Use it for
- Ecology, botany and conservation research presentations
- Natural history or science museum educational materials
- Academic field study and survey reports
- Brand or product work with a crafted, natural-goods identity
Skip it for
- Fast-paced sales or pitch decks where the contemplative pace reads as slow
- Dark-themed tech talks; Herbarium is firmly a daylight theme
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Design slides as a botanical field guide, the 'Herbarium' theme. Background: warm paper white #FBF9F2. Typography: serif headings in 'Crimson Pro' and body in 'Karla' (both Google Fonts); headings in deep ink green #2F3526; body in #4C5240; above every heading a figure caption in small uppercase letters with wide tracking in leaf green #5A7048, formatted like 'Fig. 1 · Signups by month'. Signature motifs: thin-line botanical sprigs, curved stems with small leaf outlines at 1.5px stroke in #5A7048, bleeding off corners and standing beside content; specimen tags, small boxes with a 1px dashed #5A7048 border holding an uppercase label over an italic 'Crimson Pro' latin-style subtitle; one round faded stamp outline, two concentric circles with curved lettering at about 50 percent opacity, slightly rotated in a corner. Panels and stat cards fill with soft sage #E7EBDD, square corners, no borders. List markers are circles, outlined in green or filled #5A7048 for the active item. Strictly avoid: photographs, drop shadows, gradients, bright saturated colors, filled flower illustrations, rounded corners on cards. 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 Herbarium 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 Herbarium 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 Herbarium presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Herbarium slide design prompt in practice.
