Variable establish a reference instead of copying values

Unity Engine
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I’m setting up some tests for a new menu system, and working out how to display various elements of the UI.
My new script has a GUIStyle in it to store the font attributes for my text. While I’m setting things up I decided to just copy over a GUIStyle I am currently using in my game’s HUD just to fill out all the basic values before I make my tweaks.

But when I ran the script, I found my changes were overriding the values in the HUD’s GUIStyle.

I’m baffled here. I thought I was copying over the values, but instead it seems to have established a reference.
If I have two ints and I write “intA = intB” and then change intA, that doesn’t change intB. But that’s what’s going on with these GUIStyles. What’s going on here? Why is it doing it this way, and how do I get it to just COPY the values between these two GUIStyles, not link them?

protected GUIStyle Style;

    void Start()
    {
       

        Style = GameManager.HUD.HUDFont;
    }
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GUIStyle is a class so you are going to get a reference.

You could just create a new style.

Style = new GUIStyle(GameManager.HUD.HUDFont);
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