Universe

A Typst package for creating beautiful, print-friendly title styles for documents. Perfect for textbooks, course materials, academic papers, and any document that needs professional heading styles.

Features

  • 19 distinctive styles - From classic academic to modern creative
  • Print-friendly - All styles use minimal ink (no heavy backgrounds)
  • Fully configurable - Colors, sizes, spacing, and numbering
  • Styled Table of Contents - Each style has a matching TOC design
  • Page breaks - Optional automatic page breaks before chapters
  • Multilingual - Customizable prefixes for any language
  • Native Typst support - Works with = Heading syntax
  • Cross-references - Full outline and bookmark support

View the full manual (PDF)

Quick Start

#import "@preview/beautitled:0.2.0": *

#beautitled-setup(style: "titled")
#show: beautitled-init

= My Chapter Title
== My Section Title
=== My Subsection Title

Available Styles (19)

Category Style Description
Original titled Boxed sections with floating labels (DEFAULT)
General classic Traditional with underlines
modern Clean geometric with accent
elegant Refined with ornaments
bold Strong left border
creative Student portfolio style
minimal Ultra-clean
vintage Classic book ornaments
Educational schoolbook Textbook style
notes Course notes
clean Maximum simplicity
Academic technical Documentation
academic Professional academic
textbook Bold numbers, clear hierarchy
scholarly Centered with thin rules
classical Small caps, minimal
educational Left border with numbers
structured Boxed numbers
magazine Editorial style
titled style: chapter heading with boxed floating label
titled		 classic style: traditional heading with underline
classic		 modern style: clean geometric heading with accent bar
modern
elegant style: refined heading with ornamental rules
elegant		 bold style: strong left border heading
bold		 creative style: student portfolio heading
creative
minimal style: ultra-clean heading with no decoration
minimal		 vintage style: classic book heading with ornaments
vintage		 schoolbook style: textbook heading with number badge
schoolbook
notes style: course notes heading with tab marker
notes		 clean style: maximum simplicity heading
clean		 technical style: documentation heading with monospace number
technical
academic style: professional academic heading with serif
academic		 textbook style: bold numbered heading with clear hierarchy
textbook		 scholarly style: centered heading with thin rules
scholarly
classical style: small caps heading with minimal decoration
classical		 educational style: left border heading with large number
educational		 structured style: boxed number with indented heading
structured
magazine style: editorial heading with decorative rule
magazine
Table of contents in titled style with floating chapter labels
titled		 Table of contents in classic style with dot leaders
classic		 Table of contents in modern style with accent bar
modern		 Table of contents in elegant style with ornamental rules
elegant
Table of contents in bold style with left border
bold		 Table of contents in minimal style with clean layout
minimal		 Table of contents in scholarly style with centered titles
scholarly		 Table of contents in simple style
simple

Configuration

Full Parameter Reference

#beautitled-setup(
  // Style
  style: "titled",              // Style name

  // Colors
  primary-color: rgb("#2c3e50"),
  secondary-color: rgb("#7f8c8d"),
  accent-color: rgb("#2980b9"),

  // Font sizes
  chapter-size: 18pt,
  section-size: 14pt,
  subsection-size: 12pt,
  subsubsection-size: 11pt,

  // Numbering
  show-chapter-number: true,
  show-section-number: true,
  show-subsection-number: true,
  show-chapter-in-section: true,

  // Prefixes (localization)
  chapter-prefix: "Chapitre",
  section-prefix: "Section",

  // Page breaks
  chapter-pagebreak: false,

  // Table of Contents
  toc-style: none,              // Different style for TOC (none = same as headings)
  toc-indent: 1em,
  toc-fill: repeat[.],
)

Table of Contents

// Basic TOC
#beautitled-toc()

// Custom title
#beautitled-toc(title: "Contents")

// Different style for TOC
#beautitled-toc(title: "Index", style: "elegant")

Mix Heading and TOC Styles

#beautitled-setup(style: "titled")
#show: beautitled-init

// TOC uses "scholarly" style
#beautitled-toc(title: "Table of Contents", style: "scholarly")

= First Chapter
...

Page Breaks

#beautitled-setup(
  style: "textbook",
  chapter-pagebreak: true,  // Page break before each chapter
)
#show: beautitled-init

Language Presets

#preset-french()   // "Chapitre", "Section"
#preset-english()  // "Chapter", "Section"
#preset-german()   // "Kapitel", "Abschnitt"
#preset-no-numbers()

Color Themes

#theme-ocean()   // Blue
#theme-forest()  // Green
#theme-royal()   // Purple
#theme-mono()    // Grayscale
#theme-warm()    // Orange/brown
#theme-coral()   // Red

Manual & Demo

  • Full manual: manual.typ / manual.pdf
  • Style showcase: demo.typ / demo.pdf

Changelog

v0.2.0

  • Fix: Use Unicode word joiners (\u{2060}) around dots in section numbering — prevents decimal-comma localization from rendering “1.2” as “1,2” in affected locales
  • Applied to lib.typ and all 19 style files
  • Compiler requirement updated to 0.14.2

v0.1.0

  • Initial release: 19 styles, TOC support, language presets, color themes, show-rule integration

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.