One of my favourite Dynamic Type tricks is to use Stack Views and flip the axis from horizontal to vertical given a certain content-size-category threshold. So effortless and it works so well in so many scenarios.

Day 119
14 Sep 2022
One of my favourite Dynamic Type tricks is to use Stack Views and flip the axis from horizontal to vertical given a certain content-size-category threshold. So effortless and it works so well in so many scenarios.

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There is an Environment Overrides panel in the toolbar on top of Xcode's Debug Area. It allows you to select some of the most common accessibility options and Dynamic Type sizes, like in the Accessibility Inspector, plus select dark/light mode.

There are a ton of things to love about SwiftUI. But one of my favorites it's got to be the possibility of previewing Variants: the possibility of seeing your UI in dark/light modes, all dynamic type sizes, and orientations, side-by-side.

Dynamic Type is a feature that lets a user change the font size (smaller or larger) of the whole system or a particular app. To support it, choose a preferred font based on one of the 11 supported text styles: Large title, heading, body...
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