--- /dev/null
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Melissa LeBlanc-Williams
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+"""
+`_typing`
+================================================================================
+
+Type aliases for Blinka
+
+**Software and Dependencies:**
+
+* Adafruit Blinka:
+ https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka/releases
+
+* Author(s): Melissa LeBlanc-Williams
+
+"""
+
+
+__version__ = "0.0.0-auto.0"
+__repo__ = "https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka_Displayio.git"
+
+
+from typing import Union
+
+WriteableBuffer = Union[
+ bytearray,
+ memoryview,
+ # array.array,
+ # ulab.numpy.ndarray,
+ # rgbmatrix.RGBMatrix
+]
+
+ReadableBuffer = Union[
+ bytes,
+ WriteableBuffer,
+]