Presentation template for freelance designers: 26 layouts, light and dark (.pptx)

This template is for freelance designers who present a proposal or a project to a client: context, method, past work, offer and contact. It is not a set of frozen slides: it is a master and layouts built on placeholders. You pick a layout, fill its title, text, picture, table or chart placeholders, and the layout stays right without nudging anything. Layouts and sample content are in French.

• 26 layouts built on placeholders: cover, cover with picture, section, agenda, title and text, two columns, key points, quote, big number, key figures, full-page picture, picture on the left, picture on the right, picture grid, captioned pictures, screenshot, before and after, steps, table, offers, about, testimonials, chart, contact, title only and blank.
• 26 sample slides, one per layout: a proposal for an invented client, a neighbourhood cooperative, signed “Votre studio” (your studio). You see each layout filled in before you use it.
• 2 themes, light and dark, each in its own .pptx file. No colour is hard-coded: the master, the layouts, the table and the chart only use the theme colours. Changing the theme colours recolours the whole template.
• 7 text styles on a named scale, from caption to big number, with fixed line heights.
• Work Sans in 2 weights, regular and bold, as TTF files, with its licence.
• A PDF preview of each theme, 52 pages in all, rendered page by page from the delivered files.
• 15 sample images: invented interface screens and geometric compositions drawn from the palette, with no photo, no person and no logo. Each one has alt text.
• The documents: the user guide (in French), the list of layouts and their placeholders (type, number, position and size) and the description of the system (grid, spacing, type scale, light and dark palettes).

Archive layout:

pptx/freelance-design-pitch-deck-light.pptx
pptx/freelance-design-pitch-deck-dark.pptx
pdf/freelance-design-pitch-deck-light.pdf
pdf/freelance-design-pitch-deck-dark.pdf
fonts/WorkSans-Regular.ttf
fonts/WorkSans-Bold.ttf
fonts/OFL.txt
docs/guide.md
docs/dispositions.csv
docs/systeme.json

The zip also holds the licence text, a README file (LISEZMOI) and the credits.

How to use it

• Install the fonts first from the fonts/ folder. Without them, the software swaps Work Sans for another font: widths change and texts no longer fit in their placeholders.
• Add a slide by picking its layout from the list. Placeholders keep the same number from one layout to the next: when you switch layouts, the content follows.
• Avoid free text boxes: they follow neither the grid nor the styles. All the text of the sample slides sits in placeholders.
• Drop your pictures into the picture placeholders: they are cropped to the shape of the placeholder. Fill in their alt text.
• Table and chart are native: the table is edited like any table, the chart data in its built-in spreadsheet. The sample data is invented.

Good to know

• The sample images are the same in the light file and in the dark file. The sample screenshots are light interfaces and stay light in the dark file, as the “light and dark” view of the previews shows. They are there to be replaced with your own, ideally with dark-mode screenshots in the dark file.
• The sample content and the layout names are in French.

Production and AI

The layout system, the layouts, the sample content, the invented interface screens and the scripts were produced with an AI assistant (Claude Code), then reviewed and checked: every text in a placeholder, every colour in the theme, every measurement on the grid, contrast in light and dark, rendering of every page reviewed. No image was made by an image generator: the sample screens are pages written in code and then captured, and the geometric compositions come from the same code.

• PPTX (16:9): the two templates, light and dark, with their master, layouts, theme and sample slides.
• PDF: the preview of each template, to compare your rendering with the reference.
• TTF (OFL): Work Sans, to install on your computer or add to your online tool.
• CSV: the list of layouts and their placeholders, readable in a spreadsheet.
• JSON: the layout system (grid, spacing, type scale, palettes).

The files were checked in LibreOffice Impress: every page of both templates was rendered there, and the PDF preview comes from that rendering. Opening in PowerPoint is still to be confirmed for this version. The .pptx also imports into Keynote and into online presentation tools that read this format; rendering can vary from one application to another: install the fonts, then compare a few pages with the PDF preview.

The template comes under a commercial licence: you may use it for your personal and professional presentations, including the ones you show or hand over to your clients, but you may not resell or redistribute the template, even for free. Work Sans is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: you may install it and ship it with your presentations, not sell it on its own.

• Rename and number your slides automatically before PDF export (in French)
• The art of web design: Bento, Metro UI, Grid and Masonry (in French)
• UX audit and research readout presentation template: the sister template, to present the results of an audit or a user study.
• Project scoping kit for freelance designers: after the pitch, templates for the brief, the quote, the feedback log and acceptance, to run the project through to the wrap-up (in French).

1.0.0 (11 November 2026): first release.