If you’re looking for declarations, some languages use const, let or var followed by the name of said variable. That’s a little easier to find than having a type name at the start, so I don’t think what you’re saying gives the other approach an advantage. The indentation is also more consistent with these keywords, which helps.
I realise some languages (like Python) don’t use these sorts of keywords during declaration. For those languages it could indeed be a disadvantage.