The phrase "a familiar type of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing something that is commonly recognized or known within a certain context or category.
Example: "The movie presented a familiar type of storyline that audiences have come to expect from romantic comedies."
Alternatives: "a well-known kind of" or "a recognizable form of".
Kiriakou had become a familiar type of Washington entrepreneur: a former intelligence insider turned author, commentator, consultant, and investigator.
But he also represents a familiar type of authority figure for the tribal Kurds, and he embodies traditional values esteemed by Shiite religious figures.
This paper reports on an actual real-world fraud involving theft of almost half a million dollars from a familiar type of small business.
Each also represents, on a superficial level, a familiar type of the liberal genus: old-school radicals and feminists and confirmed hippies and gay militants.
Raised mostly in Florida, Mr. Mevoli was described by a trove of friends as someone who was both unique and a familiar type of single man in Brooklyn.
The book is studded with a familiar type of demurral: "I know — you're thinking, What the fuck, Amy?" When she describes an elderly black woman as "Crypt Keeper old, like a California Raisin," she adds, "That is not racist.
At a time when television news was expanding in reach and cultural influence and melding important moments into shared national experiences, it was arguably mainstream America's introduction to a now familiar type of crime: an armed individual inflicting tremendous and unexpected violence at a location whose name would come to be used as shorthand for tragedy.
If Mr. Bahrani and Ms. Kim represent international cine-literacy, Mr. Gamazon and Mr. Dela Llana represent a more familiar type of globalization: the imposition of an American model on a third world locale.
This is competent if completely impersonal filmmaking of a familiar type that finds the usual allotment of famous, or at least famous enough, actors — Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Fox and Sigourney Weaver — arranged in various configurations in assorted spaces and delivering instantly forgettable dialogue.
Asked how he got the idea of allowing the most basic of plastic chairs — of a familiar type seen in every bar, café and restaurant dotted across the Balkans — to speak such volumes of feeling, Mr. Pasovic said he dated it to 1998.
It was politics of a familiar type, yet the bold demands discomfited some of the Northwestern establishment.
