Styling for captions in images

[mtias]

The design shows them centered and with better padding.

[paaljoachim]

Can we please reopen this issue?
As the following is about caption styling.

There is now a styling drop down option in the image captions.

It would be nice to also see: alignment, underline, color options and font size added to the drop down list.
@ellatrix

[benlk]

This is kind of an issue about selector specificity: Why does the default block-styles stylesheet make figcaptions centered? In 5.1RC2 the selector for this is more opinionated than I expected it to be:

.wp-block-image figcaption {
    margin-top: .5em;
    margin-bottom: 1em;
    color: #555d66;
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 13px;
}

I get that the layout styles need a certain specificity:

.wp-block-image .aligncenter>figcaption,
.wp-block-image .alignleft>figcaption,
.wp-block-image .alignright>figcaption,
.wp-block-image.is-resized>figcaption {
    display: table-caption;
    caption-side: bottom;

But why does Gutenberg's default stylesheet ship with rules that:

• center text
• set the color to a light tone that doesn't meet WCAG AA or AAA for contrast on a white background (#7d8185 on white is 3.92, AA requests 4.5 and AAA 7.0)
• muck with line-height
• change the font size?

Can these opinionated styles be removed?

Or can Gutenberg separate for-appearances styles from for-layout styles?

[benlk]

nevermind, gonna make that an separate issue rather than reopening this one: #15574