[Bug]: Site Title Block - Global Link Styles are applied to Site Title

[ha-un]

Quick summary

When link styles are applied in the Site Editor → Global Styles → Typography → Links, the changes apply to the Site Title block.

Steps to reproduce

1. Activate an FSE theme (tested on Masu & Twenty Twenty Three)
2. Apply a style to the Site Title block in the editor (such as font weight, size, etc.)
3. Click on the Global Styles icon and make different changes for Typography → Links

What you expected to happen

The links on the site should have the styles applied, and the Site Title should keep the styles that were set.

What actually happened

The Site Title block gets the link styles applied.

Impact

All

Available workarounds?

Yes, easy to implement

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Simple

Logs or notes

You can reset the "Link" styles to get the Site Title styles to show up again.

[cuemarie]

📌 SCRUBBING : RESULT - Replicated / Could Not Replicate / Uncertain

• Tested on Simple: Replicated
• Tested on AT: Replicated
• Tested on Self-hosted: Replicated
• Replicable on Core? Yes

📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO

• Replicated in all test environments. Tested Appearance and Font Size

Self-Hosted Example

Screen.Capture.on.2023-03-11.at.18-54-47.mov

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📌 ACTIONS

• Marked as Triaged for Quality Squad review

📌 NOTES

• I've seen a few reports of Global Styles overriding block-specific settings, both here and in /gutenberg; wondering if this larger discussion is relevant: Global Styles: Confusing UX when styles are overridden from multiple sources WordPress/gutenberg#45086

[dsas]

@cuemarie, that's right. This issue might explain a bit more directly: WordPress/gutenberg#44931

Basically GB is working as intended, but has a confusing UX. I'm going to close this as not specifically related to Dotcom.

Thank you for testing and reporting @ha-un 🙇‍♂️

[dsas]

Thought about this some more on this duplicate issue.