diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 97d73c1..67384d9 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "WeightInitializers"
 uuid = "d49dbf32-c5c2-4618-8acc-27bb2598ef2d"
 authors = ["Avik Pal <avikpal@mit.edu> and contributors"]
-version = "0.1.6"
+version = "0.1.7"
 
 [deps]
 ChainRulesCore = "d360d2e6-b24c-11e9-a2a3-2a2ae2dbcce4"
diff --git a/ext/WeightInitializersCUDAExt.jl b/ext/WeightInitializersCUDAExt.jl
index 45b91df..ac07b42 100644
--- a/ext/WeightInitializersCUDAExt.jl
+++ b/ext/WeightInitializersCUDAExt.jl
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ function sparse_init(rng::AbstractCuRNG, ::Type{T}, dims::Integer...;
     rows, cols = dims
     prop_zero = min(1.0, sparsity)
     num_zeros = ceil(Integer, prop_zero * rows)
-    sparse_array = randn(rng, T, dims...) .* std
+    sparse_array = randn(rng, T, dims...) .* T(std)
     sparse_array[1:num_zeros, :] .= CUDA.zero(T)
 
     return CUDA.@allowscalar mapslices(shuffle, sparse_array, dims=1)
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ function identity_init(rng::AbstractCuRNG, ::Type{T}, dims::Integer...;
         rows, cols = dims
         mat = CUDA.zeros(T, rows, cols)
         diag_indices = 1:min(rows, cols)
-        CUDA.fill!(view(mat, diag_indices, diag_indices), gain)
+        CUDA.fill!(view(mat, diag_indices, diag_indices), T(gain))
         return CUDA.circshift(mat, shift)
     else
         # Convolution or more dimensions
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ function identity_init(rng::AbstractCuRNG, ::Type{T}, dims::Integer...;
         #we should really find a better way to do this
         CUDA.@allowscalar for i in 1:min(nin, nout)
             index = (centers..., i, i)
-            weights[index...] = gain
+            weights[index...] = T(gain)
         end
         return CUDA.circshift(weights, (ntuple(d -> 0, length(dims) - 2)..., shift, shift))
     end
diff --git a/src/initializers.jl b/src/initializers.jl
index 357b41c..fd31046 100644
--- a/src/initializers.jl
+++ b/src/initializers.jl
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ vision_. 2015.
 """
 function kaiming_uniform(rng::AbstractRNG, ::Type{T}, dims::Integer...;
         gain::Number=√T(2)) where {T <: Number}
-    bound = √T(3) * gain / sqrt(T(first(_nfan(dims...))))
+    bound = √T(3) * T(gain) / sqrt(T(first(_nfan(dims...))))
     return (rand(rng, T, dims...) .- T(1 // 2)) .* 2 * bound
 end
 
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ vision_. 2015.
 """
 function kaiming_normal(rng::AbstractRNG, ::Type{T}, dims::Integer...;
         gain::Number=√T(2)) where {T <: Number}
-    std = gain / sqrt(T(first(_nfan(dims...))))
+    std = T(gain) / sqrt(T(first(_nfan(dims...))))
     return randn(rng, T, dims...) .* std
 end
 
@@ -111,13 +111,13 @@ function truncated_normal(rng::AbstractRNG, ::Type{T}, dims::Integer...; mean=T(
     if (mean < lo - 2 * std) || (mean > hi + 2 * std)
         @warn "Mean is more than 2 std outside the limits in truncated_normal, so the distribution of values may be inaccurate."
     end
-    l = _norm_cdf((lo - mean) / std)
-    u = _norm_cdf((hi - mean) / std)
+    l = _norm_cdf((T(lo) - T(mean)) / T(std))
+    u = _norm_cdf((T(hi) - T(mean)) / T(std))
     xs = rand(rng, T, dims...)
     broadcast!(xs, xs) do x
         x = x * 2(u - l) + (2l - 1)
         x = erfinv(x)
-        return clamp(x * std * √2 + mean, lo, hi)
+        return clamp(x * T(std) * √2 + T(mean), T(lo), T(hi))
     end
     return xs
 end
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ function orthogonal(rng::AbstractRNG, ::Type{T}, dims::Integer...;
     end
 
     if rows < cols
-        return permutedims(orthogonal(rng, T, cols, rows; gain))
+        return permutedims(orthogonal(rng, T, cols, rows; gain=T(gain)))
     end
 
     mat = randn(rng, T, rows, cols)
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ function sparse_init(rng::AbstractRNG, ::Type{T}, dims::Integer...;
     rows, cols = dims
     prop_zero = min(1.0, sparsity)
     num_zeros = ceil(Integer, prop_zero * rows)
-    sparse_array = randn(rng, T, dims...) .* std
+    sparse_array = randn(rng, T, dims...) .* T(std)
     sparse_array[1:num_zeros, :] .= zero(T)
     return mapslices(shuffle, sparse_array; dims=1)
 end
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ function identity_init(rng::AbstractRNG, ::Type{T}, dims::Integer...;
         rows, cols = dims
         mat = zeros(T, rows, cols)
         for i in 1:min(rows, cols)
-            mat[i, i] = gain
+            mat[i, i] = T(gain)
         end
         return circshift(mat, shift)
     else
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ function identity_init(rng::AbstractRNG, ::Type{T}, dims::Integer...;
         weights = zeros(T, dims...)
         for i in 1:min(nin, nout)
             index = (centers..., i, i)
-            weights[index...] = gain
+            weights[index...] = T(gain)
         end
         return circshift(weights, (ntuple(d -> 0, length(dims) - 2)..., shift, shift))
     end
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index a2afe08..aca13c8 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -114,6 +114,20 @@ const GROUP = get(ENV, "GROUP", "All")
             @test eltype(cl(rng, 4, 2)) == Float32
         end
 
+        @testset "Kwargs types" for T in (
+            Float16, Float32, Float64, ComplexF16, ComplexF32, ComplexF64)
+            if (T <: Real)
+                @test eltype(truncated_normal(T, 2, 5; mean=0, std=1, lo=-2, hi=2)) == T
+                @test eltype(orthogonal(T, 2, 5; gain=1.0)) == T
+            end
+            @test eltype(glorot_uniform(T, 2, 5; gain=1.0)) == T
+            @test eltype(glorot_normal(T, 2, 5; gain=1.0)) == T
+            @test eltype(kaiming_uniform(T, 2, 5; gain=sqrt(2))) == T
+            @test eltype(kaiming_normal(T, 2, 5; gain=sqrt(2))) == T
+            @test eltype(identity_init(T, 2, 5; gain=1.0)) == T
+            @test eltype(sparse_init(T, 2, 5; sparsity=0.5, std=0.01)) == T
+        end
+
         @testset "kaiming" begin
             # kaiming_uniform should yield a kernel in range [-sqrt(6/n_out), sqrt(6/n_out)]
             # and kaiming_normal should yield a kernel with stddev ~= sqrt(2/n_out)