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Beautiful invoices and CVs from plain text, and a CV service you can sell

Typst turns a small text file into a polished PDF in a fraction of a second. Set your invoice up once and every new one is a pasted message and one command. Then use the same trick to sell one-page CVs and branded invoice templates, free and offline.

40 minBeginnerTools: FreeStep 1 free
Tested 9 Oct 2026 · Typst 0.15.1 installed with winget, Edge's PDF viewer, Windows 11
An invoice template that adds up the lines, takes off deposits and works out the due date for you
Every new invoice in about a minutepaste the client's message into an AI chat, save the answer, run one command
A clean one-page CV that rebuilds every time you press save
  • Two small services to sell with it: one-page CV rewrites for job-seekers and branded invoice templates for tradespeople, with starting prices
  • The templates to download and keep
Before you start
  • Windows, Mac or Linux, and about 50MB of disk space
  • Notepad or any text editor. No account, no subscription
  • Helpful but not required: Level 0's terminal survival kit
01/06Install Typst0 done
STEP 01 of 06~3 min

Install Typst

Typst is a free, open-source program that turns text files into PDFs. It's one small download.

  1. Think of Typst as a much simpler, much faster cousin of LaTeX (the tool scientists write papers in). You write a text file, run one command, and get a PDF. Because the design lives in a template, it can't get nudged out of place the way a Word invoice does.

    Windows
    winget install --id Typst.Typst -e
    Mac (with Homebrew)
    brew install typst
    Linux (Ubuntu and other snap systems)
    sudo snap install typst

  2. On other Linux systems, use your package manager (Repology lists them ↗) or download the Linux archive from the Typst releases page ↗.

  3. On Windows, winget downloads a 22MB zip from Typst's official GitHub releases and unpacks it into your user folder (about 50MB). It takes a few seconds and doesn't ask for admin rights:

    Output
    Found Typst [Typst.Typst] Version 0.15.1
...
Successfully verified installer hash
Extracting archive...
Successfully extracted archive
Starting package install...
Path environment variable modified; restart your shell to use the new value.
Command line alias added: "typst"
Successfully installed

  4. Close the terminal, open a new one, and check it's there:

    Terminal
    typst --version
    Output
    typst 0.15.1 (9dfd3a08)
    TipThere's also a free online editor at typst.app ↗, but it needs an account (and has a paid Pro plan). Everything in this mission runs on your own machine, offline, with no account.
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Checkpointtypst --version prints a version number.
If it breaks'typst' is not recognised as the name of a cmdlet + 1 more
'typst' is not recognised as the name of a cmdlet
The install changed your PATH, but only new windows see it (winget even says "restart your shell"). Close every terminal window and open a fresh one.
'winget' is not recognised
Update App Installer from the Microsoft Store and try again. Or download typst-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip from the Typst releases page ↗, unzip it, copy typst.exe into your templates folder (next step) and type .\typst instead of typst.
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