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Built on the work of many

TypeTrance is built by ColsonSuperApps LLC on the work of many people. Everything we ship that we did not make ourselves is listed here with its license.

Word lists

CC BY-SA 4.0

Practice word lists (24 files in 11 languages: de, en, es, fr, id, it, nl, pl, pt, sv, tr) are derived from wordfreq and are shared under the same license.

Word list derived from wordfreq by Robyn Speer (https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq), whose word-frequency data is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). wordfreq includes data from Google Books Ngrams (http://books.google.com/ngrams); the Leeds Internet Corpus (University of Leeds Centre for Translation Studies); Wikipedia; ParaCrawl; OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018, which originates from the OpenSubtitles project (http://www.opensubtitles.org/); and the SUBTLEX word lists (SUBTLEX-US, SUBTLEX-UK, SUBTLEX-CH, SUBTLEX-DE, SUBTLEX-NL) by Marc Brysbaert et al., which are freely available data (http://crr.ugent.be/programs-data/subtitle-frequencies). Modified by ColsonSuperApps LLC (filtered, ranked subset); distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Changes: we filtered the data (spelling, blocklists, proper nouns) and kept a ranked subset. The license and attribution also travel inside every word-list file.

Quotes

Public domain

The 446 quotes are excerpts from 275 works in the public domain both in the United States and in countries where copyright lasts for the author's life plus 70 years (for translations, the translator's too). Each one is copied word for word from the source text linked below and checked against it every time the collection is built; only typography is normalised (straight quotes, plain dashes).

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Code snippets

MIT

123 original snippets in 12 languages, written for TypeTrance by ColsonSuperApps LLC and released under the MIT license.

Fonts

SIL OFL 1.1

Color themes

56 original · 16 adapted

56 themes are original. 16 adapt the palettes of these projects, under their licenses:

  • Catppuccin LatteBased on Catppuccin Latte by CatppuccinMIT · Copyright (c) 2021 Catppuccin
  • Catppuccin MochaBased on Catppuccin Mocha by CatppuccinMIT · Copyright (c) 2021 Catppuccin
  • DraculaBased on Dracula by Dracula ThemeMIT · Copyright (c) 2023 Dracula Theme
  • Everforest DarkBased on Everforest (dark, medium) by sainnheMIT · Copyright (c) 2019 sainnhe
  • Gruvbox DarkBased on Gruvbox (dark) by Pavel PertsevMIT · Copyright (c) 2018 Pavel Pertsev
  • Gruvbox LightBased on Gruvbox (light) by Pavel PertsevMIT · Copyright (c) 2018 Pavel Pertsev
  • KanagawaBased on Kanagawa (wave) by Tommaso LaurenziMIT · Copyright (c) 2021 Tommaso Laurenzi
  • Night OwlBased on Night Owl by Sarah DrasnerMIT · Copyright (c) 2018 Sarah Drasner
  • NordBased on Nord by Sven GrebMIT · Copyright (c) 2016-present Sven Greb <development@svengreb.de> (https://www.svengreb.de)
  • One DarkBased on One Dark (Atom) by GitHub Inc.MIT · Copyright (c) 2016 GitHub Inc.
  • Rosé PineBased on Rosé Pine by mvllowMIT · Copyright (c) mvllow
  • Rosé Pine DawnBased on Rosé Pine Dawn by mvllowMIT · Copyright (c) mvllow
  • Solarized DarkBased on Solarized (dark) by Ethan SchoonoverMIT · Copyright (c) 2011 Ethan Schoonover
  • Solarized LightBased on Solarized (light) by Ethan SchoonoverMIT · Copyright (c) 2011 Ethan Schoonover
  • Tokyo NightBased on Tokyo Night by EnkiaMIT · Copyright (c) 2018-present Enkia
  • TomorrowBased on Tomorrow by Chris KempsonMIT · Copyright (C) 2011 [Chris Kempson](https://github.com/chriskempson)

Keyboard layouts

From public specifications

50 layouts are written from their public specifications. The sources we used for each one:

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Sound, Worlds and art

Made for TypeTrance

  • Sounds

    The 9 keyboard packs, 8 game cues and 10soundscapes were made for TypeTrance (October 2026); a pack or a soundscape is downloaded only when you choose it. The synthesised keyboards are generated in your browser.

  • Worlds

    The World backdrops (Deep Space, Night Drive, Riviera, Old Growth, Midtown, Mirrorball, Borealis, Peacock) and their optional ambience were made for TypeTrance (October 2026). Each World shows an original scene drawn in CSS until its art has loaded, and keeps it when your browser saves data; the ambience plays only when you switch it on.

  • Academy covers

    The cover art of the 11 Academy guides was made for TypeTrance. It illustrates; it shows no data, and every number in a guide comes from its listed sources.

Something missing?

If you believe something here is credited wrongly, write to support@colsonsuperapps.com and we will fix it.