© Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats 2019
D. D. Derksen-StaatsDeveloping Accessible iOS Appshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5308-3_5

5. Dynamic Type

Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats1 
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London, UK
 

Dynamic Type is probably one of the accessibility features that most of us, as iOS users, will use at some point in our lives. It allows the user to change the preferred font size in the system settings. Learn how to create a UI that can adapt properly to very large text sizes, if the user decides to use them.

What is Dynamic Type?

Dynamic Type is another important accessibility feature. It is a mechanism that lets your UI adapt to different font sizes depending on the user’s preferences. Supported font sizes go from .extraSmall to .extraExtraExtraLarge. And you ...

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