Verse Block Lost its Styling

[sharonlaker19]

Quick summary

The Verse block appears to have suddenly lost all styling and now looks no different from the Paragraph block.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new page and add the Verse block to it with some text.
2. Add a Paragraph block right below with the same text.
3. Publish the page and compare the appearance of the text on the two blocks.

What you expected to happen

For the Verse block to have custom styling and look different from the default Paragraph block text.

What actually happened

The Verse block and Paragraph block text look exactly the same:

Context

No response

Platform (Simple, Atomic, or both?)

Simple, Atomic

Theme-specific issue?

No response

Browser, operating system and other notes

No response

Reproducibility

Consistent

Severity

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

Yes, difficult to implement

Workaround details

The user would need to go in and set custom font styles for their Verse block, which would be difficult if someone is already using it on many pages like the user in 5888935-zen

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Support References

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• 5888935-zen
• 5928537-zen

[liviopv]

Another

• 5928537-zd-woothemes

[liviopv]

This seems to be theme-specific, as I couldn't repro on 2020 https://liviofree.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/6639/

[liviopv]

I imagine it's due to this change WordPress/gutenberg#46560, which makes the block use the theme's default font style for the Verse Block, so what we see now is the expected behaviour.

[cuemarie]

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

• Tested on Simple: Replicated
• Tested on AT: Replicated

📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO

• Thanks for the context @liviopv ! I can replicate this, but based on the Verse: Prevent default styles overriding theme.json font family WordPress/gutenberg#46560 note, it seems this is by design.

AT Examples

Twenty Twenty-One

Twenty Twenty-Two

Simple Examples

Twenty Twenty-Three

Zoologist

Other Notes

Twenty Twenty does not repro the issue because reflects this behavior instead: Automattic/themes#6866

📌 ACTIONS

• Closed as by design (per Verse: Prevent default styles overriding theme.json font family WordPress/gutenberg#46560)

📌 Message to Author

• Feel free to reopen or rereport as a feature request if this is something Users are asking for