# Styles tab

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This core reference entry is suited for **beginner-level builders.** 

[Learn more about experience levels.](#user-content-fn-1)[^1]
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To learn about this topic more in-depth, we recommend reading the suggested articles below:

**The styles tab**\
In this article we cover how to navigate the styles tab.

Article: [The styles tab](https://manual.bubble.io/~/changes/1188/help-guides/getting-started/navigating-the-bubble-editor/tabs-and-sections/styles-tab)

**Styling**\
In this article series, we cover how to design your app and use styles and style variables:

* Article series: [Styling](https://manual.bubble.io/~/changes/1188/help-guides/design/styling)
  * Article: [Font variables](https://manual.bubble.io/~/changes/1188/help-guides/design/styling/font-variables)
  * Article: [Color variables](https://manual.bubble.io/~/changes/1188/help-guides/design/styling/color-variables)
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The Styles Tab manages collections of visual and layout properties that are shared across elements in the app. Styles make it easy to maintain and modify a consistent visual identity.

Rather than setting the font, background, and border for each element, define a style and apply it to all the elements of a given type. 

## Style and font variables

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* Article: [Font variables](https://manual.bubble.io/~/changes/1188/help-guides/design/styling/font-variables)
* Article: [Color variables](https://manual.bubble.io/~/changes/1188/help-guides/design/styling/color-variables)

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Bubble also includes pre-defined font and color variables in the Style variables sub tab to help make designing your application even faster. When the value of a Style variable is updated, any instance that uses the color variable will receive the new value automatically.

[^1]: In the Bubble docs, experience levels are categorized into beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

    To assist with learning, especially for more complex topics, we'll recommend prerequisite reading where it could be beneficial.&#x20;