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Types of Pasta. There are two major classifications: pasta fresca (fresh) and pasta secca (dried). From here, there are more than 400 unique types of pasta: sheets, strips, long strands, cylinders, unique shapes, flavors, and many other local varieties.
Specifically, the three kinds of wheat flour you'll find mentioned in pasta recipes: semolina, all-purpose, and the high-protein, finely milled 00 flour. At the end of the day, I settled on using all-purpose flour for my recipe. It's the flour most people already have in their pantries, and it makes great pasta.