{"route":"/en-US-v0.13.1/reference/foundations/type/","title":"Type","description":"Documentation for the Type type.","part":null,"outline":[{"id":"summary","name":"Summary","children":[]},{"id":"example","name":"Example","children":[]},{"id":"compatibility","name":"Compatibility","children":[]},{"id":"constructor","name":"Constructor","children":[{"id":"constructor-value","name":"value","children":[]}]}],"body":{"kind":"type","content":{"name":"type","title":"Type","keywords":[],"oneliner":"Describes a kind of value.","details":"

Describes a kind of value.

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To style your document, you need to work with values of different kinds:\nLengths specifying the size of your elements, colors for your text and\nshapes, and more. Typst categorizes these into clearly defined types and\ntells you where it expects which type of value.

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Apart from basic types for numeric values and typical\ntypes known from programming\nlanguages, Typst provides a special type for content. A value\nof this type can hold anything that you can enter into your document: Text,\nelements like headings and shapes, and style information.

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Example

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#let x = 10\n#if type(x) == int [\n  #x is an integer!\n] else [\n  #x is another value...\n]\n\nAn image is of type\n#type(image("glacier.jpg")).\n
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The type of 10 is int. Now, what is the type of int or even type?

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#type(int) \\\n#type(type)\n
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Compatibility

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In Typst 0.7 and lower, the type function returned a string instead of a\ntype. Compatibility with the old way will remain until Typst 0.14 to give\npackage authors time to upgrade.

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Determines a value's type.

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#type(12) \\\n#type(14.7) \\\n#type("hello") \\\n#type(<glacier>) \\\n#type([Hi]) \\\n#type(x => x + 1) \\\n#type(type)\n
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The value whose type's to determine.

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