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+# Beamer color theme `owl`
+
+> The effectiveness of a colour scheme is heavily dependent on the conditions you present in. Colours that look nice on a computer screen may be invisible projected; colours that stand out in a lit room may strain the eyes in a dark room. If possible, you should carefully choose from Beamer's wide variety of colour themes to find one that fits your presentation's individual needs.
+
+
+The above paragraph would be excellent advice, except for one thing --- only a handful of pre-selected colour themes are publicly available for Beamer. The vast majority of Beamer presentations use one of the [built-in colour themes](https://mpetroff.net/files/beamer-theme-matrix/), which are effective in some conditions but inadequate in others. The goal of this package is to reduce the number of situations you find yourself without any good colour options. `owl` is a flexible dark or light colour theme designed for maximum readability in environments where most themes fall flat.
+
+
+
+## Examples
+
+![The `owl` colour theme used with the Beamer themes `Hannover`, `Pittsburgh`, and `metropolis`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rchurchley/beamercolortheme-owl/master/ex/readme.jpg)
+
+
+
+## Installation
+Installing `owl`, as with any other LaTeX package, involves just three easy steps:
+
+1. **Download the source** as a [zip archive](https://github.com/rchurchley/beamercolortheme-owl/archive/master.zip) or with a `git clone` of this Git repository.
+
+2. **Compile** `beamercolorthemeowl.ins` with LaTeX to produce the package file `beamercolorthemeowl.sty`.
+
+3. **Move the `.sty` file** to the folder containing your presentation or a directory in your TeX path.
+
+That's it! We are working on a CTAN release which would make it even easier to
+install through your LaTeX distribution's package manager.
+
+
+
+## Usage
+
+Once you have downloaded and installed the `beamercolorowl` package, using it is a piece of cake:
+
+```latex
+\usecolortheme{owl}
+```
+
+Unlike many Beamer themes, `owl` defaults to a dark theme with white text on a black background. This is particularly recommended for presentations with low ambient lighting, where it has the most advantages.
+
+If you expect to present in a brightly-lit room or with a weak projector, you may wish to use to use the `snowy` option to use black text on a white background:
+
+```latex
+\usecolortheme[snowy]{owl}
+```
+
+In addition to setting the colour scheme of your slides, `owl` redefines the redefines the basic colour names `red`, `green`, `blue`, `yellow`, `violet`, `brown`, `orange`, and `cyan` to hues that are more visible when when displayed by some projectors. If you do not want these colour names to be redefined, use the `cautious` option when loading `owl`:
+
+```latex
+ \usecolortheme[cautious]{owl}
+```
+
+In either case, `owl`-defined colours will be available as `OwlRed`, `OwlGreen`, and so forth.
+
+![`OwlRed`, `OwlGreen`, `OwlBlue`, and `OwlYellow`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rchurchley/beamercolortheme-owl/master/ex/colours.png)
+
+
+
+## Contributions
+
+The biggest way you can help `owl` is by sharing your experience using it. Our goal with `owl` is to provide colours that are as visible as possible, even in unfavourable presenting conditions, and that is very difficult to test with only one pair of eyes and a handful of projectors!
+
+If you have used `owl` or seen it used, we would greatly appreciate your opinion on how it performed. Please open a GitHub Issue or privately email `ross@rosschurchley.com` with as much of the following information as you can:
+
+- The version of `owl` used.
+- The Beamer theme, if any, that was used together with `owl`.
+- Whether `owl` was used as a dark or light theme.
+- Details on the room (auditorium, large room, small room, ...)
+- Details on the lighting conditions (brightly lit, dark, windows, ...)
+- Details, if known, on the reporter's vision (glasses, colour deficiencies, ...)
+- Your opinion on:
+    + whether normal text was visible against the background.
+    + whether the provided colours (`OwlRed`, `OwlBlue`, etc) were legible against the background.
+    + whether the provided colours (`OwlRed`, `OwlBlue`, etc) were distinguishable from each other and from the normal text colour.
+
+We also welcome technical feedback and bug reports in the form of GitHub Issues and pull requests. 
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