diff --git a/demo/11-declaritive-styles-2.ts b/demo/11-declaritive-styles-2.ts
index 3a0154a0fb..5fe9e16ae6 100644
--- a/demo/11-declaritive-styles-2.ts
+++ b/demo/11-declaritive-styles-2.ts
@@ -18,13 +18,8 @@ import {
 
 const doc = new Document({
     styles: {
-        paragraphStyles: [
-            {
-                id: "Heading1",
-                name: "Heading 1",
-                basedOn: "Normal",
-                next: "Normal",
-                quickFormat: true,
+        default: {
+            heading1: {
                 run: {
                     font: "Calibri",
                     size: 52,
@@ -40,12 +35,7 @@ const doc = new Document({
                     spacing: { line: 340 },
                 },
             },
-            {
-                id: "Heading2",
-                name: "Heading 2",
-                basedOn: "Normal",
-                next: "Normal",
-                quickFormat: true,
+            heading2: {
                 run: {
                     font: "Calibri",
                     size: 26,
@@ -55,12 +45,7 @@ const doc = new Document({
                     spacing: { line: 340 },
                 },
             },
-            {
-                id: "Heading3",
-                name: "Heading 3",
-                basedOn: "Normal",
-                next: "Normal",
-                quickFormat: true,
+            heading3: {
                 run: {
                     font: "Calibri",
                     size: 26,
@@ -70,12 +55,7 @@ const doc = new Document({
                     spacing: { line: 276 },
                 },
             },
-            {
-                id: "Heading4",
-                name: "Heading 4",
-                basedOn: "Normal",
-                next: "Normal",
-                quickFormat: true,
+            heading4: {
                 run: {
                     font: "Calibri",
                     size: 26,
@@ -85,6 +65,8 @@ const doc = new Document({
                     alignment: AlignmentType.JUSTIFIED,
                 },
             },
+        },
+        paragraphStyles: [
             {
                 id: "normalPara",
                 name: "Normal Para",
@@ -139,12 +121,6 @@ const doc = new Document({
                     spacing: { line: 276, before: 20 * 72 * 0.1, after: 20 * 72 * 0.05 },
                 },
             },
-            {
-                id: "ListParagraph",
-                name: "List Paragraph",
-                basedOn: "Normal",
-                quickFormat: true,
-            },
         ],
     },
 });
diff --git a/demo/2-declaritive-styles.ts b/demo/2-declaritive-styles.ts
index c34eae9628..6f3add1f19 100644
--- a/demo/2-declaritive-styles.ts
+++ b/demo/2-declaritive-styles.ts
@@ -8,13 +8,8 @@ const doc = new Document({
     title: "Sample Document",
     description: "A brief example of using docx",
     styles: {
-        paragraphStyles: [
-            {
-                id: "Heading1",
-                name: "Heading 1",
-                basedOn: "Normal",
-                next: "Normal",
-                quickFormat: true,
+        default: {
+            heading1: {
                 run: {
                     size: 28,
                     bold: true,
@@ -27,12 +22,7 @@ const doc = new Document({
                     },
                 },
             },
-            {
-                id: "Heading2",
-                name: "Heading 2",
-                basedOn: "Normal",
-                next: "Normal",
-                quickFormat: true,
+            heading2: {
                 run: {
                     size: 26,
                     bold: true,
@@ -48,6 +38,13 @@ const doc = new Document({
                     },
                 },
             },
+            listParagraph: {
+                run: {
+                    color: '#FF0000'
+                }
+            }
+        },
+        paragraphStyles: [
             {
                 id: "aside",
                 name: "Aside",
@@ -75,12 +72,6 @@ const doc = new Document({
                     spacing: { line: 276, before: 20 * 72 * 0.1, after: 20 * 72 * 0.05 },
                 },
             },
-            {
-                id: "ListParagraph",
-                name: "List Paragraph",
-                basedOn: "Normal",
-                quickFormat: true,
-            },
         ],
     },
     numbering: {
diff --git a/src/file/file.ts b/src/file/file.ts
index 1c655253de..90986d16d7 100644
--- a/src/file/file.ts
+++ b/src/file/file.ts
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ export class File {
             this.styles = stylesFactory.newInstance(options.externalStyles);
         } else if (options.styles) {
             const stylesFactory = new DefaultStylesFactory();
-            const defaultStyles = stylesFactory.newInstance();
+            const defaultStyles = stylesFactory.newInstance(options.styles.default);
             this.styles = new Styles({
                 ...defaultStyles,
                 ...options.styles,
diff --git a/src/file/styles/factory.ts b/src/file/styles/factory.ts
index f5bca8248d..da4c268447 100644
--- a/src/file/styles/factory.ts
+++ b/src/file/styles/factory.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { DocumentAttributes } from "../document/document-attributes";
 import { IStylesOptions } from "./styles";
 
-import { DocumentDefaults } from "./defaults";
+import { DocumentDefaults, IDocumentDefaultsOptions } from "./defaults";
 import {
     FootnoteReferenceStyle,
     FootnoteText,
@@ -13,12 +13,30 @@ import {
     Heading5Style,
     Heading6Style,
     HyperlinkStyle,
+    IBaseCharacterStyleOptions,
+    IBaseParagraphStyleOptions,
     ListParagraph,
     TitleStyle,
 } from "./style";
 
+export interface IDefaultStylesOptions {
+    readonly document?: IDocumentDefaultsOptions;
+    readonly title?: IBaseParagraphStyleOptions;
+    readonly heading1?: IBaseParagraphStyleOptions;
+    readonly heading2?: IBaseParagraphStyleOptions;
+    readonly heading3?: IBaseParagraphStyleOptions;
+    readonly heading4?: IBaseParagraphStyleOptions;
+    readonly heading5?: IBaseParagraphStyleOptions;
+    readonly heading6?: IBaseParagraphStyleOptions;
+    readonly listParagraph?: IBaseParagraphStyleOptions;
+    readonly hyperlink?: IBaseCharacterStyleOptions;
+    readonly footnoteReference?: IBaseCharacterStyleOptions;
+    readonly footnoteText?: IBaseParagraphStyleOptions;
+    readonly footnoteTextChar?: IBaseCharacterStyleOptions;
+}
+
 export class DefaultStylesFactory {
-    public newInstance(): IStylesOptions {
+    public newInstance(options: IDefaultStylesOptions = {}): IStylesOptions {
         const documentAttributes = new DocumentAttributes({
             mc: "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006",
             r: "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships",
@@ -30,51 +48,58 @@ export class DefaultStylesFactory {
         return {
             initialStyles: documentAttributes,
             importedStyles: [
-                new DocumentDefaults(),
+                new DocumentDefaults(options.document),
                 new TitleStyle({
                     run: {
                         size: 56,
                     },
+                    ...options.title,
                 }),
                 new Heading1Style({
                     run: {
                         color: "2E74B5",
                         size: 32,
                     },
+                    ...options.heading1,
                 }),
                 new Heading2Style({
                     run: {
                         color: "2E74B5",
                         size: 26,
                     },
+                    ...options.heading2,
                 }),
                 new Heading3Style({
                     run: {
                         color: "1F4D78",
                         size: 24,
                     },
+                    ...options.heading3,
                 }),
                 new Heading4Style({
                     run: {
                         color: "2E74B5",
                         italics: true,
                     },
+                    ...options.heading4,
                 }),
                 new Heading5Style({
                     run: {
                         color: "2E74B5",
                     },
+                    ...options.heading5,
                 }),
                 new Heading6Style({
                     run: {
                         color: "1F4D78",
                     },
+                    ...options.heading6,
                 }),
-                new ListParagraph({}),
-                new HyperlinkStyle({}),
-                new FootnoteReferenceStyle({}),
-                new FootnoteText({}),
-                new FootnoteTextChar({}),
+                new ListParagraph(options.listParagraph || {}),
+                new HyperlinkStyle(options.hyperlink || {}),
+                new FootnoteReferenceStyle(options.footnoteReference || {}),
+                new FootnoteText(options.footnoteText || {}),
+                new FootnoteTextChar(options.footnoteTextChar || {}),
             ],
         };
     }
diff --git a/src/file/styles/styles.ts b/src/file/styles/styles.ts
index 1fbc4b5e50..1906b45ba0 100644
--- a/src/file/styles/styles.ts
+++ b/src/file/styles/styles.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
+import { IDefaultStylesOptions } from "file/styles/factory";
 import { BaseXmlComponent, ImportedXmlComponent, XmlComponent } from "file/xml-components";
-
 import { StyleForCharacter, StyleForParagraph } from "./style";
 import { ICharacterStyleOptions } from "./style/character-style";
 import { IParagraphStyleOptions } from "./style/paragraph-style";
 export * from "./border";
 
 export interface IStylesOptions {
+    readonly default?: IDefaultStylesOptions;
     readonly initialStyles?: BaseXmlComponent;
     readonly paragraphStyles?: IParagraphStyleOptions[];
     readonly characterStyles?: ICharacterStyleOptions[];