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Body text is smaller than 15px on mobile

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Why it matters

Small body text on phones is hard to read and causes pinch-zooming; iOS also zooms into inputs under 16px.

How to fix it

Use 16px (1rem) body text on mobile and ≥ 16px for inputs.

void design reports 19 rules in this category. Measured design heuristics from computed styles: font families, type scale, line length, palette and accent sprawl, spacing grid, radius sprawl, dark mode and the tells of generated UI.