Styles and touches

How a deck looks has three layers, and each answers one question.

| Layer | Answers | Changes | |---|---|---| | Template | What does it say? | Structure, slide types and example content for one job. It arrives in a default style. | | Style | What does it look like? | Colours, typefaces, light or dark: Midnight, Paper, Slate, White or Monochrome. Never shape. | | Touch | Whose hand drew it? | How a model draws boxes, keylines, panels, rules and bullets. Never colour. Optional. |

Any template takes any style, and any style takes any touch: the Monochrome keynote drawn with Claude's keylines works. A brand kit is not a fourth layer. It is your company's own style, with a touch if you like, plus logo, fonts and rules, and it lives with the Custom prompt and the brand kit, never on a template.

Styles

Every template family carries the same five styles, so the choice is the same everywhere. A template starts in the style its card shows; change it in Create under Style. Background texture and accent are refinements of the style, under Customise.

How a touch is made

Probe. Each model is asked for a deck using no unPaper vocabulary at all. What comes back is its native dialect.
Distil. The constants across several of its decks, not one deck's accidents, become a reusable set of shapes.
Wear it. The touch changes how the slides are drawn. It does not change the style's colours and it does not change which AI you use.

What you can compare

The Styles and touches page shows the five styles, then each touch beside the model study it came from: dated source generations and a table measuring all files the same way: fixed geometry or fluid, scrolls or pages, prints clean or not, needs JavaScript or not.

That table is measured, not asserted. Each deck is loaded in a real browser, rendered with scripts on and off, resized, and printed to a real PDF.

A note on names

A touch is named for what it looks like, never for the model: "Quiet Keyline", not "the Claude one". The attribution rides beside it as after Claude, which states provenance without claiming endorsement or an official provider template.