diff --git a/packages/react-base16-styling/src/index.ts b/packages/react-base16-styling/src/index.ts
index 25b148b2..708ac783 100644
--- a/packages/react-base16-styling/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/react-base16-styling/src/index.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import curry from 'lodash.curry';
 import * as base16 from 'base16';
+import { Base16Theme } from 'base16';
 import rgb2hex from 'pure-color/convert/rgb2hex';
 import parse from 'pure-color/parse';
 import flow from 'lodash.flow';
@@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ const getStylingByKeys = (mergedStyling, keys, ...args) => {
   return props;
 };
 
-export const invertBase16Theme = (base16Theme) =>
+export const invertBase16Theme = (base16Theme: Base16Theme) =>
   Object.keys(base16Theme).reduce(
     (t, key) => (
       (t[key] = /^base/.test(key)
diff --git a/packages/react-base16-styling/src/types.ts b/packages/react-base16-styling/src/types.ts
index e69de29b..20cfc650 100644
--- a/packages/react-base16-styling/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/react-base16-styling/src/types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+import { Base16Theme } from 'base16';
+
+export type Theme = string | Base16Theme | StylingConfig;
diff --git a/packages/react-base16-styling/test/index.test.ts b/packages/react-base16-styling/test/index.test.ts
index d1de7720..b1b71766 100644
--- a/packages/react-base16-styling/test/index.test.ts
+++ b/packages/react-base16-styling/test/index.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { createStyling, invertBase16Theme, getBase16Theme } from '../src';
-import apathy from 'base16/lib/apathy';
+import { apathy } from 'base16';
 
 const base16Theme = {
   scheme: 'myscheme',