This document provides an overview of chromatography and its types. It introduces chromatography as a technique used to separate mixtures based on differential partitioning between a mobile and stationary phase. The document then briefly discusses the history of chromatography and its discovery by Russian scientist Mikhail Tsvet in 1900. Finally, it outlines several major types of chromatography techniques including paper chromatography, thin layer chromatography, gas-liquid chromatography, column chromatography, ion exchange chromatography, gel filtration chromatography, and affinity chromatography.