If a user has modified their preferred font sizes via browser settings, say
from 16px to 20px, how would this work then? What is the 100% multiplier in
your CSS rule based upon then? Would they get gigantic fonts bumped at the
OS- and then the browser-level on top?

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On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM 'David Grogan' via blink-dev <
blink-dev@chromium.org> wrote:

> Contact emailsdgro...@chromium.org
>
> ExplainerNone yet. An example usage is <p style="text-size-adjust:
> calc(100% * env(preferred-text-scale));">
>
> Specificationhttps://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10674
>
> Summary
>
> Exposes a user's preferred font scale to CSS. Currently, it is not
> practical for a page to detect if the user has changed their preferred font
> size via the Operating System's preferences panel. This CSS environment
> variable will reflect the scale chosen by the user.
>
>
> Blink componentBlink>Accessibility
> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3EAccessibility%22>
>
> Motivation
>
> Without this API, pages cannot practically honor the user's OS-level
> font-size preference. Today, if you change the Android system-level font
> slider and browse the web you'll see that <10% of sites honor that slider.
> The minority that do change font sizes have mostly stumbled into a very old
> UA intervention that boosts font sizes on mobile.
>
>
> Initial public proposalhttps://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10674
>
> TAG reviewNone
>
> TAG review statusPending
>
> Risks
>
>
> Interoperability and Compatibility
>
> None
>
>
> *Gecko*: No signal
>
> *WebKit*: No signal
>
> *Web developers*: No signals
>
> *Other signals*:
>
> WebView application risks
>
> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that
> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>
> None
>
>
> Debuggability
>
> None
>
>
> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
> ?No -- We use a UA-specific internals API to simulate changing the
> OS-level font scale
>
> Flag name on about://flagsNone
>
> Finch feature nameNone
>
> Non-finch justificationNone
>
> Requires code in //chrome?False
>
> Tracking bughttps://crbug.com/397737223
>
> Estimated milestones
>
> No milestones specified
>
>
> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5328467685801984?gate=6124347150041088
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