About this design
Where the Marquee style comes from, and what it signals.
Marquee draws from 1920s art deco poster design: the strict geometry, bilateral symmetry and obsessive letterspacing that poster artists used to turn a nightclub bill into something that looked permanent. Every element is centered. The double frame, the diamond rule break and the sunburst are direct lifts from the visual language of theater marquees and annual ball programs of that era.
The palette is brass gold #D4AF37 on near-black #0E0D0B with cream body text #F3EAD3. Titles run in Cinzel, an uppercase-only serif that approximates inscribed Roman stone letters; Marcellus handles everything else in small letterspaced caps. Statistics appear in four equal columns divided by vertical gold hairlines, large Cinzel numbers over small Marcellus labels. The sunburst behind title and section slides comes from a repeating conic gradient at low opacity, keeping it present without competing with the text.
Use it for events that should feel like occasions: award ceremonies, annual reviews dressed as revues, luxury brand presentations, or any deck where the tone needs to signal that this moment has been prepared for.
Use it for
- Award ceremonies and gala event programs
- Annual reports framed as a year-in-review revue
- Luxury brand or hospitality strategy presentations
- Fundraiser or benefit performance programmes
Skip it for
- Data-heavy analysis where asymmetric column layouts aid comprehension
- Quick internal updates; the formality overhead is too high
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in 1920s art deco style, the 'Marquee' theme. Background: near-black (#0E0D0B). Accent: brass gold (#D4AF37). Text: cream (#F3EAD3). Every slide is perfectly symmetric and center-aligned, wrapped in a double frame: a 2px gold border inset about 20px from the edge, and a second 1px gold border about 14px inside it. Titles: 'Cinzel' serif, uppercase, letterspaced around 0.18em, with body and small letterspaced caps in 'Marcellus' (both Google Fonts), and a thin gold rule broken by a centered diamond '◆' above and below. Title, section and closing slides get a sunburst of thin gold rays radiating up from the bottom center at low opacity, behind the text. Numbering uses roman numerals in gold 'Cinzel' serif. Statistics sit in equal columns divided by thin gold vertical lines: large 'Cinzel' gold numbers over small letterspaced cream 'Marcellus' caps. Strictly avoid: asymmetry, sans-serif headlines, rounded corners, any color beyond gold and cream on black, photographs. 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 Marquee 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 Marquee 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 Marquee presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Marquee slide design prompt in practice.
