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Iterating on Details → Styles to lower emphasis on style variations #50924

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Currently, the Style section of the Site View emphasizes style variations with a deep link to open Styles. In writing calls for testing and thinking about current issues with changing style variations, like Custom CSS: Unsaved Additional CSS is lost after browsing different style variations & Custom colors are lost when styles are changed, it feels risky to surface style variations to this degree and doesn't align with what I imagine is a common action a user will take. For many, style variation switches would constitute a pseudo theme switch in terms of impact to the site's design and potentially layout. Right now, it's really easy to switch and not know how to switch back to what you originally had too without an undo button visible. I know we have revisions but to access those revisions one would have to know to go to the granular Styles view > three dot menu > view revisions.

What else can we emphasize here? Font management is worth considering if this lands in time for 6.3 #45271

cc @mtias @WordPress/gutenberg-design

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    Global StylesAnything related to the broader Global Styles efforts, including Styles Engine and theme.jsonNeeds Design FeedbackNeeds general design feedback.[Feature] Site EditorRelated to the overarching Site Editor (formerly "full site editing")[Type] DiscussionFor issues that are high-level and not yet ready to implement.

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