[SOLVED] Not Understanding the Styles System

[Obscura]

I'm trying to learn the more current way styles are implemented in Renpy, and I'm not sure I understand. The documentation gives these examples:

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style my_text is text:
    size 40
    font "gentium.ttf"
    
style big_red:
    size 40
    

Why does the first have "is text" after it? Why doesn't the second?
How do you know when to add "is" followed by an object (in this case "text"), and how do you know which objects to put there?

The answer is likely obvious, but I'm struggling to glean it from the documentation.

[philat]

The first example my_text inherits from the style text, and overrides only specific attributes (size/font). big_red inherits from default, that's all.

[Obscura]

Well, that explains it! Thanks so much for clearing up the confusion, philat!!!