Typst makes big strides

Typst makes big strides September 9, 2026 This article was contributed by Lee Phillips Typst is a system for typesetting documents into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progress, HTML. It is adept at handling technical material, and is often considered to be an eventual LaTeX replacement.

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• September 9, 2026 This article was contributed by Lee Phillips Typst is a system for typesetting documents into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progress, HTML.
• It is adept at handling technical material, and is often considered to be an eventual LaTeX replacement.
• We last looked in on Typst a year ago, when it had reached version 0.13.
• A new version, 0.15, was released in June with lots of new features , including support for variable fonts, MathML, multiple bibliographies, and more.
• Typst is free, Apache-2.0-licensed software, programmed in Rust.
• Variable Fonts Typst now has support for variable fonts .