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Josh Tumath avatar Josh Tumath

Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary

  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • 28 January 2026
  • accessibility, em, rem, CSS
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https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary/

Just like how the <meta name=viewport> tag tells the browser that your website is designed to work for small viewport sizes, the <meta name=text-scale> tells the browser, 'Hey, I've designed my website to still work if the user increases their OS text size.'

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