Quarto templates

A small collection of personal PDF templates for Quarto. They share one clean style: Libertine and Inconsolata fonts, British English spelling, coloured links, and generous margins.

Libertine + Inconsolata British English pdflatex 5 templates
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The templates

Each template is a single .qmd file with a matching LaTeX layout. Click any preview to open the rendered PDF.

First page of the article template

Article

Academic article with numbered sections, double spacing, an abstract, keywords, JEL codes, and back references.

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First page of the title-page template

Title page

The article layout with a separate, formatted title page for the author, abstract, and affiliation details.

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First page of the CV template

CV

A curriculum vitae with clear section headings, aligned dates, and the same typographic style as the rest.

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First page of the letter template

Letter

A formal letter with optional letterhead and signature images, set through a few simple YAML fields.

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First page of the syllabus template

Syllabus

A course syllabus with room for a schedule, readings, and policy sections, ready to adapt to any class.

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One shared style

Aa

Libertine + Inconsolata

A warm serif for the body and a readable mono for code, used across every template.

EN

British English

Spelling, hyphenation, and date formats all set to lang: en-GB by default. Prefer American English? Just change it to lang: en-US.

↗

Coloured links

Dark-blue URLs and mahogany internal links and citations, easy to change in the YAML.

PDF

Render with pdflatex

Built for a standard LaTeX toolchain, and light enough to use TinyTeX.

Installation

You need Quarto, a LaTeX distribution, and (for the default kernel) Python with Jupyter.

Prefer R? Delete the jupyter: python3 line from the YAML header (that line is what tells Quarto to use Python) and install the quarto-r and rmarkdown packages. Quarto then renders with R: it switches to the knitr engine on its own as soon as it sees an {r} code chunk, and you can make that explicit by adding engine: knitr to the header. Either way, you do not need Python or Jupyter.

Usage

Clone the repository and render any template you like.

git clone https://github.com/danilofreire/quarto-templates.git
cd quarto-templates/article
quarto render article.qmd --to pdf

Edit the .qmd file to change the content, and adjust the YAML header to change the formatting (fonts, spacing, margins, colours). Each template carries its own .latex file that controls the PDF layout.

The letter template adds a few optional fields for a letterhead and a signature image:

letterhead: emory.png          # path to letterhead image
letterhead-width: 7cm          # image width
signature: /path/to/sig.png    # path to signature image
signature-width: 5cm           # signature image width

All of these are optional. Leave them out and the letter renders with neither a letterhead nor a signature.

The templates are free to use and adapt. If you find them helpful, consider starring the repository; comments, issues, and pull requests are welcome