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Dynamic Type: how to make fonts scale

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Essence

Dynamic Type is the system text size setting: from xSmall to xxxLarge, plus five larger sizes in the Accessibility settings (accessibilityMedium … accessibilityExtraExtraExtraLarge). An app must respect it: many users keep text larger than the default, not only people with low vision.

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