Gutenberg: Consider renaming "Global Styles" to "Default Styles"

Created on 19 Aug 2020  ·  2Comments  ·  Source: WordPress/gutenberg

I keep coming back to this thought that "Global Styles" might also mean "Default Styles". I wonder if "Global" is a developer-friendly word that has less meaning to end users than "Default”.

Global...am I travelling somewhere? ✈️🌍

The Global Styles initiative seems to be focused on providing a default set of styles, which blocks can override.

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Can "Global Styles" be renamed to "Default styles"?

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Worth noting Global Styles is merely a project codename to refer to in development, it should not be part of the UI — which should really just be "Styles".

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I think there may be opportunity to conceptually align the language here with templates as well. The index template (for one example) is in many ways a rough equivalent of "global styles", in that it provides a baseline that can be overridden by other entities. I don't think I'd describe that as a "global template" though. "Default" or "Base" feels like a step in the right direction.

Worth noting Global Styles is merely a project codename to refer to in development, it should not be part of the UI — which should really just be "Styles".

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