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What is typst and why I love it

Arindam Basu
5 min readNov 25, 2024

Typst is a content authoring tool and typesetting app rolled into one. There is a web app and a free open source version of it as well. You will find the app here:

If you visit the above webpage, you can create a free account and you can use it to write papers, create slides, etc. The app is remarkably nimble and it produces fast PDFs. The app is so good that it produces PDFs “on the fly”. So, one way to think of it, or at least the way I look at it, is like Word but for producing PDFs. The PDFs you produce are nice looking even if you do not do any “tweaking” and perfectly usable.

If you do not want to use Typst locally on your computer, you can use Typst online, and on the cloud; on the other hand, if you want to use Typst locally, you can download their free and open source software on your mahcine and can use it. Download it from here:

You can download and install for Linux:

If you use Mac or Windows, then go here:

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Arindam Basu
Arindam Basu

Written by Arindam Basu

Medical Doctor and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury. Founder of TwinMe,

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