Previously #34574, #9534, #37550. This issue tracks the ongoing roadmap of global styles features and theme.json development.

Style Variations

The theme objects were designed to be composable. The next idea to unlock is to allow full style objects to be attached to specific templates or patterns. The style objects are managed globally and hooked into concrete templates or patterns. That would allow styling an archive very differently to other templates; having specific color palettes and font sizes for a header template; or using synchronized patterns while modifying them through style objects managed globally.

• Section specific Theme.json #40318
• Global Styles: Ability to manage partial style objects #53480
• Global Styles: Managing style variations #38333.
• Style Variations: Display current modifications in the "Browse styles" panel #53476
• Continuation of Block Style Variations #7551

Style Book

• Style Book: Iterate on presentation and design #53431
• Style Book: Ability to focus on individual block types. #53432
• Style Book: Integrate patterns #53437

Interface

• Explore improvements to Styles panel in site editor #53483
• Styles: show a hierarchy of styles clearly (theme, user, global unspecific, global specific, local, etc) #49278
• Style Revisions: Offer comparison views #53484
• Consider a standardized way to modify hover/focus/active states for blocks #27075, Standardized way to modify interactive states (:hover, :focus .etc) for blocks #38277, Implicit Text, Hover, Focus Colors as Part of Color Palette #34717.
• Flow for editing the styles of a specific block type #27393.

Tools

• Global Styles Typography #38534
• Allow selecting and connecting ref tokens in the UI. #65723
• Global Styles: Elements support tracking issue #40966
• Iterate on absorbing block styles as part of the global styles mechanism #45198