About this design
Where the Ticker style comes from, and what it signals.
Ticker recreates the visual environment of a financial data terminal: amber monospace on pure black, in the tradition of Bloomberg and Reuters terminals before color arrived. The assumption is that an investor briefing or earnings review audience will find this vocabulary immediately legible because they spend their working hours in exactly this kind of interface.
The ticker strip at the top of every slide is the signature element: a row of symbol-price-change entries separated by amber dividers at 40% opacity, sitting on a 1px amber rule. Share Tech Mono handles all text: amber #FFB000 for primary labels, white for key values, and #6E6E6E for secondary information. Gains read green #00C853 with a triangle prefix; losses read red #FF3B30 with a down-triangle. Section headers invert to black text on solid amber blocks. Data tables stay dense with 1px #2A2A2A row rules, and function-key chips in amber rectangles add a period-correct terminal detail.
Use Ticker for earnings reviews, investor updates, fund performance decks, and financial presentations where the audience will be skeptical of anything that looks designed to impress rather than inform.
Use it for
- Earnings releases and quarterly investor briefings
- Hedge fund and private equity LP updates
- Financial model walkthroughs for analyst audiences
- Fixed income or equity research presentations
Skip it for
- Consumer-facing product pitches where the terminal look creates distance
- Presentations to non-financial executives who may find the density hard to parse
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Ticker' theme, a market data terminal. Background: pure black #000000. Typography: 'Share Tech Mono' (a Google Font) everywhere; amber #FFB000 is the primary text color, white for key values, #6E6E6E for secondary text; gains in green #00C853 with a ▲ prefix, losses in red #FF3B30 with a ▼ prefix. Signature motifs: (1) a ticker strip across the top of every slide, one row of entries like 'NWND 42.18 ▲1.2%' separated by thin amber dividers at 40 percent opacity, sitting on a 1px amber rule; (2) section headers as black uppercase text on solid amber blocks; (3) dense right-aligned data tables with 1px row rules in #2A2A2A; (4) function-key chips like 'F8 EQUITY', black 'Share Tech Mono' on small amber rectangles. Charts are flat amber bars over hairline #2A2A2A gridlines with the latest bar in green #00C853. Strictly avoid: gradients, rounded corners, shadows or glow, photographs, blue accents, decorative icons. 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 Ticker 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 Ticker 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 Ticker presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Ticker slide design prompt in practice.
