Typst Packages

An experimental package repository for Typst. A searchable list of all packages that were submitted here is available in the official documentation.

Package format

A package is a collection of Typst files and assets that can be imported as a unit. A typst.toml manifest with metadata is required at the root of a package. An example manifest could look like this:

[package]
name = "example"
version = "0.1.0"
entrypoint = "lib.typ"
authors = ["The Typst Project Developers"]
license = "Unlicense"
description = "An example package."

Required by the compiler:

• name: The package's identifier in its namespace.
• version: The package's version as a full major-minor-patch triple. Package versioning should follow SemVer.
• entrypoint: The path to the main Typst file that is evaluated when the package is imported.

Required for submissions to this repository:

• authors: A list of the package's authors.
• license: The package's license. Must contain a valid SPDX-2 expression describing one or multiple OSI-approved licenses.
• description: A short description of the package. Double check this for grammar and spelling mistakes as it will appear in the package list.

Optional:

• repository: A link to the repository where this package is developed.
• exclude: An array of globs specifying files that should not be part of the published bundle that the compiler downloads when importing the package. To be used for support files like images or documentation that would otherwise unnecessarily increase the bundle size.

Packages always live in folders named as {name}/{version}. The name and version in the folder name and manifest must match. Paths in a package are local to that package. Absolute paths start in the package root while relative paths are relative to the file they are used in.

Published packages

This repository contains a collection of published packages. Due to its early and experimental nature, all packages in this repository are scoped in a preview namespace. A package that is stored in packages/preview/{name}/{version} in this repository will become availabe in Typst as #import "@preview/{name}:{version}". You must always specify the full package version.

Submission guidelines

To submit a package, simply make a pull request with the package to this repository. There are a few requirements for getting a package published, which are detailed below:

• Naming: Package names should not be merely descriptive to create level grounds for everybody (e.g. slides is forbidden, but sliding or slitastic would be ok). Names should not include the word "typst" (as it is redundant). If they contain multiple words, names should use kebab-case. Look at existing packages and PRs to get a feel for what's allowed and what's not.
• Functionality: Packages should conceivably be useful to other users and should expose their capabilities in a reasonable fashion.
• Documentation: Packages must contain a README.md file documenting (at least briefly) what the package does and all definitions intended for usage by downstream users. Examples in the README should show how to use the package through an @preview import. If you have images in your README, you might want to check whether they also work in dark mode.
• Style: No specific code style is mandated, but two spaces of indent and kebab-case for variable and function names are recommended.
• License: Packages must be licensed under the terms of an OSI-approved license. In addition to specifying the license in the TOML manifest, a package must either contain a LICENSE file or link to one in its README.md.
• Size: Packages should not contain large files or a large number of files. This will be judged on a case-by-case basis, but if it needs more than ten files, it should be well-motivated. To keep the package small and fast to download, please exclude images for the README or PDF files with documentation from the bundle. Alternatively, you can link to images hosted on a githubusercontent.com URL (just drag the image into an issue).
• Security: Packages must not attempt to exploit the compiler or packaging implementation, in particular not to exfiltrate user data.
• Safety: Names and package contents must be safe for work.

This list may be extended over time as improvements/issues to the process are discovered. Given a good reason, we reserve the right to reject any package submission.

Once submitted, a package will not be changed or removed without good reason to prevent breakage for downstream consumers. By submitting a package, you agree that it is here to stay. If you discover a bug or issue, you can of course submit a new version of your package.

There is one exception: Minor fixes to the documentation or TOML metadata of a package are allowed if they can not affect the package in a way that might break downstream users.

Note: Please do not submit templates as packages just yet. We plan to build infrastructure around this so that they can show up in the web app's template gallery and be used to scaffold a project through the CLI. Stay tuned!

Downloads

The Typst compiler downloads packages from the preview namespace on-demand. Once used, they are cached in {cache-dir}/typst/packages/preview where {cache-dir} is

• $XDG_CACHE_HOME or ~/.cache on Linux
• ~/Library/Caches on macOS
• %LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows

Importing a cached package does not result in a network access.

Local packages

Want to install a package locally on your system without publishing it or experiment with it before publishing? You can store packages in {data-dir}/typst/packages/{namespace}/{name}/{version} to make them available locally on your system. Here, {data-dir} is

• $XDG_DATA_HOME or ~/.local/share on Linux
• ~/Library/Application Support on macOS
• %APPDATA% on Windows

Packages in the data directory have precedence over ones in the cache directory. While you can create arbitrary namespaces with folders, a good namespace for system packages is local:

• Store a package in ~/.local/share/typst/packages/local/mypkg/1.0.0
• Import from it with #import "@local/mypkg:1.0.0": *

Note that future iterations of Typst's package management may change/break this local setup.

License

The infrastructure around the package repository is licensed under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license. Packages in packages/ are licensed under their respective license.