Making Branded Documents with Quarto and Typst
- Date: 11 November 2025
- Presenter: Michael Jones
- Time: 1230 - 1330
- Location: The Shed at the Digital Greenhouse
Doing data work is pointless if you cannot communicate your results, and communicating your results is easier if they are presented well. While sometimes, web-based communication is warranted, there will always be a place for well-designed static PDF reports.
For a long time, the only way to generate RMarkdown report output in PDF was through LaTeX or trying to force pagination into an HTML document using pagedown. RMarkdown’s successor, Quarto, brings a sleak new PDF engine called Typst.
This talk will demonstrate the process of setting up Typst templates for R and data driven PDF reports.
We will cover:
- getting started with Quarto
- what Typst is and what problems it addresses
- how to style the Typst output to match a style guide or brand book
- how to share the style as a template to let others in your team write consistently branded reports
Slides will be shared after the event.