Typst

8 engineers on Hacker News describe using Typst first-hand: 6 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.

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8first-hand users
6in production
endorse 6mixed 0regret 0uses, no opinion

“It's just so robust, efficient and works everywhere. Never again do I need to worry about html formatting to make PDFs.”

endorse · production · film42 · 2026-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Switching to Typst was a massive win for us. The single static binary resulted in tiny images and faster boot times.”

endorse · production · mr-karan · 2025-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using typst for a couple of years now and I'm so glad I went to the process of making my personal templates”

endorse · personal · 2 yr · warebrew · 2024-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've switched to Typst some months ago and not once have I thought it might have been a mistake.”

endorse · personal · humanfromearth9 · 2024-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“For my team Typst was a perfect LaTeX replacement and we've been happy ever since we switched.”

endorse · production · thomas34298 · 2024-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using Typst in production to generate a PDF on the fly and it has been amazing. Much smaller dependencies than LaTeX and it was also extremely fast.”

endorse · production · huijzer · 2023-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We use Typst to generate PDFs, and we template Typst files using Jinja2 from YAML.”

neutral · production · sinaatalay · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We rewrote the book in Typst. On the hypermedia.systems website, the new EPUB ebook release is built from the new codebase.”

neutral · production · deniz-a · 2024-06-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?