I wrote my (phd) thesis recently, which mean I got to do a survey of the various templates for that purpose. KOMAscripts wins, hands down. This is cute, but KO

I wrote my (phd) thesis recently, which mean I got to do a survey of the various templates for that purpose. KOMAscripts wins, hands down. This is cute, but KOMAscript is just ridiculously featureful and customizable. It's also very well documented, can be adapted to any page format and has very good typography.