typvend

typvend is a lightweight Python CLI utility designed to vendor official Typst packages locally for offline development, sandboxed builds, or containerized production CI/CD workflows.

Why?

Typst downloads packages on the fly at compile time with no official way to pre-download them. This can be problematic for offline compilation and read-only production environments (like containers). The solution is to either run the compilation once to fetch the packages or download them manually.

typvend simplifies this, downloading packages to the default Typst cache path or any directory you choose (then point Typst to it via --package-cache-path), in two ways:

• Explicit: add <pkg>[@<version>] — download specific packages by name, with a version or @latest.
• Scan: recursively find all @preview/<pkg>:<version> imports in .typ files and vendor them in one go.

Usage

You can run typvend directly using uv.

uvx typvend --help

Global options:

• -o, --output DIR — Custom directory to extract packages (defaults to native OS Typst search path).
• --namespace NS — Custom namespace (defaults to preview).
• -f, --force — Re-download package even if it already exists.
• -v, --verbose — Enable verbose output logs.

1. Adding Packages Explicitly

# Download latest version of fontawesome
uvx typvend add fontawesome

# Download specific versions
uvx typvend add fontawesome@0.5.0 cetz

2. Scanning Project Directories

Recursively searches a file or directory for package imports and vendors all discovered packages in one command:

# Scan a templates directory and output packages to typst cache folder
uvx typvend scan ./templates

# Scan and output to a custom directory (e.g. for Docker cache stages)
uvx typvend scan ./templates --output /typst-packages