change color of title in custom title page

Question

I'm using the custom title page shown in this SE post:

\documentclass{beamer}
\defbeamertemplate*{title page}{customized}[1][]
{
  \usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle\par
  \usebeamerfont{subtitle}\usebeamercolor[fg]{subtitle}\insertsubtitle\par
  \bigskip
  \usebeamerfont{author}\insertauthor\par
  \usebeamerfont{institute}\insertinstitute\par
  \usebeamerfont{date}\insertdate\par
  \usebeamercolor[fg]{titlegraphic}\inserttitlegraphic
}
\title{A customized title page}
\subtitle{for demonstration}
\author{Stefan Kottwitz}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

but I can't figure out how to change the color of the title

down in my .sty file I tried adding

\setbeamercolor{title}{bg=red,fg=white}

but that didn't work

any ideas?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 31 '20 at 18:27

If you want the title to take the fg and bg color of template title, you have to change the title page template, add a beamercolorbox, as in: \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=0.9\textwidth,sep=1em]{title}\usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle\end{beamercolorbox}

Then you can apply the color as in your example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\defbeamertemplate*{title page}{customized}[1][]
{
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=0.9\textwidth,sep=1em]{title}\usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle\end{beamercolorbox}
    \usebeamerfont{subtitle}\usebeamercolor[fg]{subtitle}\insertsubtitle\par
    \bigskip
    \usebeamerfont{author}\insertauthor\par
    \usebeamerfont{institute}\insertinstitute\par
    \usebeamerfont{date}\insertdate\par
    \usebeamercolor[fg]{titlegraphic}\inserttitlegraphic
}
\setbeamercolor{title}{bg=red,fg=white}
\setbeamercolor{subtitle}{fg=blue}
\title{A customized title page}
\subtitle{for demonstration}
\author{Stefan Kottwitz}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
    \maketitle
\end{document}

Be aware, that you need to set the subtitle color appropriately, otherwise it will be white on white.

change color of title in custom title page

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