About this design
Where the Outrun style comes from, and what it signals.
Outrun is a direct citation of the 1980s synthwave poster: a vertical sky gradient descending from deep violet #1A0B33 through magenta #8E2470 to sunset orange #FF7A3C, with a horizon line roughly 70 percent down the slide. Below it, a perspective grid in glowing pink #FF4FA3 converges toward the vanishing point. The striped sun, a semicircle with horizontal transparent slices, sits on the horizon of title and section slides.
Orbitron carries the headlines, heavy uppercase italic with a chrome vertical gradient from white through pale blue #BFE3FF to steel blue #6FA7FF, plus a hard pink #FF4FA3 drop shadow offset 3 pixels down. Body text runs in Exo 2. Content panels are dark violet with thin pink borders and a soft outer glow; key chart elements glow in cyan #41E8E0. The hot pink and cyan pairing comes from the retrowave tradition of complementary neon on a dark field.
The theme commits fully to its source material, which is both its strength and its limit. Use it when the energy of the room matters as much as the content. Audiences who read extravagance as imprecision will not be won over.
Use it for
- Product launch events and keynote-style marketing decks
- Gaming, music and entertainment brand presentations
- Conference openers that need to set an aggressive tone
- Internal hype decks for growth milestones and team celebrations
Skip it for
- Finance, legal or board presentations; the aesthetic reads as frivolous to those audiences
- Print or PDF handouts, where the dark gradient background bleeds ink and loses detail
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation styled like a 1980s synthwave poster, the 'Outrun' theme. Background: a vertical gradient sky from deep violet (#1A0B33) through magenta (#8E2470) to sunset orange (#FF7A3C), ending at a horizon line about 70 percent down the slide; below the horizon, a dark floor with a glowing pink (#FF4FA3) perspective grid converging toward the center, and a glowing pink horizon line. Scatter a few tiny white stars in the sky. On title and section slides, a striped sun sits on the horizon: a semicircle with a yellow-to-orange gradient and transparent horizontal slices. Typography: headlines in 'Orbitron', body in 'Exo 2' (both Google Fonts). Headlines: heavy uppercase italic with a chrome effect, a vertical gradient from white through pale blue (#BFE3FF) to steel blue (#6FA7FF), plus a hard pink drop shadow offset about 3px down. Accents: hot pink (#FF4FA3) and cyan (#41E8E0); panels are dark violet with thin pink borders and a soft pink outer glow; key chart elements glow cyan. Strictly avoid: serif fonts, white backgrounds, muted or pastel colors, corporate gray. 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 Outrun 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 Outrun 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 Outrun presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Outrun slide design prompt in practice.
