Showybox is a Typst package for creating colorful and customizable boxes.

Usage

To use this library through the Typst package manager (for Typst 0.6.0 or greater), write #import "@preview/showybox:1.0.0": showybox at the beginning of your Typst file.

Once imported, you can create an empty showybox by using the function showybox() and giving a default body content inside the parenthesis or outside them using squared brackets [].

By default a showybox with these properties will be created:

• No title
• No shadow
• Not breakable
• Black borders
• White background
• 5pt of border radius
• 1pt of border thickness

#import "@preview/showybox:1.0.0": showybox

#showybox(
  [Hello world!]
)

Looks quite simple, but the “magic” starts when adding a title, color and shadows. The following code creates two “unique” boxes with defined colors and custom borders:

// First showybox
#showybox(
  frame: (
    title-color: red.darken(40%),
    body-color: red.lighten(90%),
    border-color: black,
    thickness: 2pt
  ),
  title: "Hello world! - An example",
  [
    Hello world!
  ]
)

// Second showybox
#showybox(
  frame: (
    dash: "dotted",
    border-color: red.darken(40%)
  ),
  body-style: (
    align: center
  ),
  sep: (
    dash: "dashed"
  ),
  shadow: (
	offset: 3pt
  ),
  [This is an important message!],
  [Be careful outside. There are dangerous bananas!]
)

Reference

The showybox() function can receive the following parameters:

• title: A string used as the title of the showybox
• footer: A string used as the footer of the showybox
• frame: A dictionary containing the frame’s properties
• title-style: A dictionary containing the title’s styles
• body-style: A dictionary containing the body’s styles
• footer-style: A dictionary containing the footer’s styles
• sep: A dictionary containing the separator’s properties
• shadow: A dictionary containing the shadow’s properties
• width: A relative length indicating the showybox’s width
• align: An unidimensional alignement for the showybox in the page
• breakable: A boolean indicating whether a showybox can break if it reached an end of page
• spacing: Space above and below the showybox
• above: Space above the showybox
• below: Space below the showybox
• body: The content of the showybox

Frame properties

• title-color: Color used as background color where the title goes (default is black)
• body-color: Color used as background color where the body goes (default is white)
• footer-color: Color used as background color where the footer goes (default is luma(85))
• border-color: Color used for the showybox’s border (default is black)
• radius: Showybox’s radius (default is 5pt)
• thickness: Border thickness of the showybox (default is 1pt)
• dash: Showybox’s border style (default is solid)

Title styles

• color: Text color (default is white)
• weight: Text weight (default is bold)
• align: Text align (default is left)

Body styles

• color: Text color (default is black)
• align: Text align (default is left)

Footer styles

• color: Text color (default is luma(85))
• weight: Text weight (default is regular)
• align: Text align (default is left)

Separator properties

• thickness: Separator’s thickness (default is 1pt)
• dash: Separator’s style (as a line dash style, default is "solid")
• gutter: Separator’s space above and below

Shadow properties

• color: Shadow color (default is black)
• offset: How much to offset the shadow in x and y direction either as a length or a dictionary with keys x and y (default is 4pt)

Gallery

Encapsulation

May have some bugs

Enabling breaking

Custom radius

Changelog

Version 0.1.0

• Initial release

Version 0.1.1

• Changed package name from colorbox to showybox
• Fixed a spacing bug in encapsulated showyboxes
  • Details: When a showybox was encapsulated inside another, the spacing after that showybox was 0pt, probably due to some “fixes” improved to manage default spacing between rect elements. The issue was solved by avoiding #set statements and adding a #v(-1.1em) to correct extra spacing between the title rect and the body rect.

Version 0.2.0

• Improved code documentation
• Enabled an auto-break functionality for non-titled showyboxes
• Created a separator functionality to separate content inside a showybox with a horizontal line

Version 0.2.1

All changes listed here were performed by Jonas Neugebauer (https://github.com/jneug)

• Added the shadow option
• Enabled auto-break (breakable) functionality for titled showyboxes
• Removed a thin line that appears in showyboxes with no borders or dashed borders

Version 1.0.0

• Fixed shadow displacement
  • Details: Instead of displacing the showybox’s body from the shadow, now the shadow is displaced from the body.

Changes below were performed by Jonas Neugebauer (https://github.com/jneug)

• Added title-inset, body-inset, footer-inset and inset options
  • Details: title-inset, body-inset and footer-inset will set the inset of the title, body and footer area respectively. inset is a fallback for those areas.
• Added a sep.gutter option to set the spacing around separator lines
• Added option width to set the width of a showybox
• Added option align to move a showybox with width < 100% along the x-axis
  • Details: A showybox is now wrapped in another block to allow alignment. This also makes it possible to pass the spacing options spacing, above and below to #showybox().
• Added footer and footer-style options
  • Details: The optional footer is added at the bottom of the box.