In this paper, we study limiting embeddings of Besov-type and Triebel-Lizorkin-type spaces, $$\text {id}_\tau : {B}_{p_1,q_1}^{s_1,\tau _1}(\Omega ) \hookrightarrow {B}_{p_2,q_2}^{s_2,\tau _2}(\Omega )$$
id
τ
:
B
p
1
,
q
1
s
1
,
τ
1
(
Ω
)
↪
B
p
2
,
q
2
s
2
,
τ
2
(
Ω
)
and $$\text {id}_\tau : {F}_{p_1,q_1}^{s_1,\tau _1}(\Omega ) \hookrightarrow {F}_{p_2,q_2}^{s_2,\tau _2}(\Omega )$$
id
τ
:
F
p
1
,
q
1
s
1
,
τ
1
(
Ω
)
↪
F
p
2
,
q
2
s
2
,
τ
2
(
Ω
)
, where $$\Omega \subset {{{\mathbb {R}}}^d}$$
Ω
⊂
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d
is a bounded domain, obtaining necessary and sufficient conditions for the continuity of $$\text {id}_\tau $$
id
τ
. This can also be seen as the continuation of our previous studies of compactness of the embeddings in the non-limiting case. Moreover, we also construct Rychkov’s linear, bounded universal extension operator for these spaces.