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+## Beamer mtheme
+
+The *mtheme* is a Beamer theme with minimal visual noise based on Mozilla's Fira
+Sans typeface. Not convinced? Have a look at the [demo slides](demo.pdf).
+
+
+![Sample](http://i.imgur.com/wP4uGbS.png)
+
+
+### Requirements
+
+As of now, fonts, colors and the section indicator are hardcoded into the theme.
+Thus to compile the demo with `make` you must
+
+* use XeLaTeX,
+* install the [Fira Sans](https://github.com/mozilla/Fira) font and
+* have a usable TikZ installation.
+
+
+### License
+
+The theme itself is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
+4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). This
+means that if you change the theme and re-distribute it, you *must* retain the
+copyright notice header and license it under the same CC-BY-SA license. This
+does not affect the presentation that you create with the theme.
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