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Transcript
Global Styles: What’s in the Works Tammie Lister
1. Why?
“I have this vision, but I don’t know CSS” So
many people
None
None
“I want to allow block styling from my theme” Theme
creators
2. How?
Put screenshot here Starting with some flows
Put screenshot here What is the experience of the theme
also?
C v v
yvz8y.csb.app/#/v2/post
yvz8y.csb.app/#/i2
None
What could this look like?
None
None
3. The story so far
“It all starts with the block” A Gutenberg mantra
Line height github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20339
Exposing our need for better design tools Label ‘Design tools’
Theme exploration by Kjell themeshaper.com/2020/03/20/exploring-global-styles
Follow along github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20331 github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/projects/40
3. Coming soon
v1: sidebar font/text families | base font/style | link styling
None
Heading and text families github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/21028
None
Link styling github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/21032
None
Base font size and scale github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/21030
None
Let’s have a demo! github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/20530
None
4. The future
Custom CSS
View all global styling
Mosaic view for global styles github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20477
Personal thoughts, hopes and dreams… None of these are set
or certain
Beyond the sidebar github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/20212
Beyond the sidebar
None
Importing & exporting
“Everything starts with the block…” By improving blocks, we can
see what should be global
Color picker github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/19785
Iterate the block
Bring to the block, if right
What will you make? Collaborate, explore and share
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