About this design
Where the Passepartout style comes from, and what it signals.
Passepartout treats the slide like a gallery wall. The passe-partout is the wide mat board a framer cuts around a print, and here it becomes the layout: every image floats in a generous cream or white mat behind a single thin keyline, the way a matted photograph sits inside a frame. The point of all that empty mat is the same in a deck as on a wall, it gives the eye somewhere to rest and tells the room the work is worth the space. That makes this a photography portfolio presentation that reads as curated rather than uploaded.
The type does the rest. Cormorant Garamond, a high-contrast serif, carries the titles, the exhibition name and the Roman plate numerals at display sizes in near-black #20201E. Tenor Sans handles the museum placards, set small, uppercase and letter-spaced, so each print gets its title, medium, year and dimensions the way a gallery label would read them. The palette stays quiet: warm-white #F7F5F0, near-black ink, and a single muted brass #9A7B4F used only as a hairline, a short rule or a plate numeral. Nothing competes with the work.
The system repeats across an art portfolio deck without ever feeling like a template: a cover plate, an exhibition checklist, a single matted print, a diptych, a salon-hung grid wall and a colophon. Whether the slide holds one image or six, the mat, the keyline and the placard stay constant, which is what makes a gallery presentation feel like one continuous hang instead of a folder of slides.
Use it for
- Photography portfolio presentations and photographer pitch decks
- Fine artist and illustrator portfolios
- Gallery, exhibition and show proposal decks
- Visual portfolio reviews where the work should lead
- Art-led brand and studio lookbooks
Skip it for
- Dense data decks with tables, KPIs and multi-series charts
- Dark, high-contrast brand or product launch decks
- Text-heavy reports where images are incidental
The presentation design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Passepartout' theme: a fine-art photography portfolio styled like a quiet, well-lit gallery hang. Background: gallery warm-white #F7F5F0 on every slide, with prints presented on a pure white or cream inner mat #FFFFFF. Layout grammar: every image is a 'print' that sits inside a wide passe-partout mat, generous mat margins on all sides, and the print itself is a tasteful tonal or duotone CSS gradient panel, never a literal photo or clipart; a single thin 1px keyline in #E3DED3 traces the inside of each mat. Below each print place a museum placard set in 'Tenor Sans' at 10 to 12px, uppercase, letter-spaced around 0.22em, giving title, medium, year and dimensions on their own lines in muted gray #908B81 with the title in near-black #20201E. Typography: titles, plate numerals and display lines in the high-contrast serif 'Cormorant Garamond' at 30 to 72px in near-black #20201E; both 'Cormorant Garamond' and 'Tenor Sans' are Google Fonts. Accent: use the muted brass #9A7B4F sparingly and only as a hairline rule, a short underline, a small plate numeral or a single keyline; never as a fill behind text. Roman plate numerals (Plate I to Plate VI) and a refined two-column checklist tie the deck together. Keep the contrast low and the air generous: lots of mat, thin keylines, near-black serif over warm white, brass as the quietest note in the room. Strictly avoid: real or stock photos and clipart, drop shadows, rounded cards, a second accent color, saturated or neon colors, dense bullet lists, heavy borders, and any decorative ornament around the prints. 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 Passepartout 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 Passepartout 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 Passepartout presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Passepartout presentation design prompt in practice.
