Design System Accessibility: Typography & Size

If you can’t see it, you can’t use it.

Presbyopia¹ is a physiological condition which makes it harder to focus on close objects. This is a side-effect of your eyes ageing and currently effects about a quarter of the worlds population¹.

According to some sources everyones eyesight worsens after the age of 4⁰². This is why it is important for us to design experiences that are accessible for people with farsightedness³. They are a huge part of nearly everybody’s audience.