diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1539dada..2df514b4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 
 ### ⚡️ Optimizations
 
+- [#584](https://github.com/estruyf/vscode-front-matter/issues/584): - Ignore type field in content-type validation
+
 ### 🐞 Fixes
 
 - [#564](https://github.com/estruyf/vscode-front-matter/issues/564): Fix to only pass strings to the taxonomy dashboard
diff --git a/src/panelWebView/components/ContentType/ContentTypeValidator.tsx b/src/panelWebView/components/ContentType/ContentTypeValidator.tsx
index 75836900..2036ada6 100644
--- a/src/panelWebView/components/ContentType/ContentTypeValidator.tsx
+++ b/src/panelWebView/components/ContentType/ContentTypeValidator.tsx
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export interface IContentTypeValidatorProps {
   metadata: IMetadata;
 }
 
-const fieldsToIgnore = [`filePath`, `articleDetails`, `slug`, `keywords`];
+const fieldsToIgnore = [`filePath`, `articleDetails`, `slug`, `keywords`, `type`];
 
 export const ContentTypeValidator: React.FunctionComponent<IContentTypeValidatorProps> = ({
   fields,
diff --git a/src/panelWebView/styles.css b/src/panelWebView/styles.css
index c9a583b6..09d6d1f2 100644
--- a/src/panelWebView/styles.css
+++ b/src/panelWebView/styles.css
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ button {
 .metadata_field__label {
   display: flex;
   align-items: center;
-  justify-content: space-between;
+  /* justify-content: space-between; */
   margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
 
   div {