Need help with structuring text with figures?

Question

I need help in order to be able to make this for my own thesis. If anyone would try to help me, I would be very thankful.

Answer 1

Components:

• Logo: I found a logo with higher resolution at a university page. As member of the university you can maybe get a good vector graphics version of the logo. Also the next steps might not be necessary with the a vector graphics version.

  The image on the website was then loaded in an image manipulating program, gimp:

  • The white margins are removed/the image cropped.
  • The white color is made transparent. In gimp I have used the menu entry "Colors → Colors to Alpha".
  • Then the image is exported as PNG file with transparency as file logo_UK.png.

• Colors.

  • The color of the red band can be derived from a color picker of an image program. I have taken the color from the name of the background image for the red menu bar at the home page of the university. The result was the HTML color #CC2C32.

  • I have guessed the color for the gray background of the logo as 10 % black and 90 % white. The example draws the background via TikZ. Alternatively the background could be set in the image file.

• Measurements. The example below only uses rough guesses. The margins can be adopted using options of package geometry.

• The font seems to be Palatino, thus I have used package tgpagella, the clone for Palatino from the TeX Gyre project. The sizes are just simple guesses. Change them to your needs.

The following example generates one page with the title page. This page can then be included with package pdfpages in the main document.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[
  % your settings for the title page
]{geometry}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{tgpagella}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\maxdepth}{0pt}

\newsavebox{\imagebox}
\sbox{\imagebox}{%
  \includegraphics[
    width=52mm,
  ]{logo_UK.png}%
}

\newdimen\RedBandWidth
\setlength{\RedBandWidth}{14mm}

\definecolor{RedBandColor}{HTML}{CC2C32}
\definecolor{LogoBackgroundColor}{gray}{.9}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[inner sep=0pt]
  \draw[
    RedBandColor,
    line width=\RedBandWidth,
    line cap=butt,
    <-,
    >={Triangle Cap[cap angle=105, reversed]},
  ]
    (0, 0) -- (0, \textheight)
  ;
  \fill[LogoBackgroundColor]
    (0, \textheight - \RedBandWidth - .5\ht\imagebox)
    circle[radius=.5\wd\imagebox - 1pt]
    node (image) {\usebox{\imagebox}}
  ;

  \coordinate (BotText) at (0, 21mm);

  \path[
    node font=\Large\bfseries\scshape,
    every node/.style={rotate=90},
  ]
    (BotText) node[white, right]
    {\strut\textls[70]{Matematicko-Fyzik\'aln\'ifakulta}}
    ++(-.5\RedBandWidth - 4mm, 0)
    node[above right]
    {\textls[70]{Univerzita Karlova v Praze}}
  ;

  \def\TextSep{5.5mm}
  \path
    (BotText) ++(.5\RedBandWidth + \TextSep, 0) coordinate (RightColumn)
    node[above right, align=left, font=\small] {%
      Katedra algebry\\
      Vedouc\'i pr\'ace: doc.\@ Mgr.\@ \v St\v ep\'an Holub, Ph.\@\,D.\\
      Studijn\'i program: Matematika\\
      Studijn\'i obor: obecn\'a matematika\\
      Praha 2013\vphantom{g}
    }
    (RightColumn) ++(0, 61mm)
    node[above right, font=\large\bfseries] (author) {Miroslav Ol\v s\'ak}
    (author.north west) ++(0, 12mm)
    node[above right, font=\LARGE\bfseries, align=left]
    {Kvadratick\'e rovnice\\na slovech}
    (image.east) ++(\TextSep, 0)
    node[right, font=\large\bfseries] {Bakal\'a\v rsk\'a pr\'ace}
  ;

  % Set bounding box to cover full text area
  \pgfresetboundingbox
  \useasboundingbox
    (0, 0) (image.west) ++(\textwidth, 0) (0, \textheight)
  ;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}