--- title: You once said @ScaledMetric created inconsistent... description: Using @ScaledMetric to scale shadow radius in SwiftUI caused visual inconsistency across dynamic type sizes. On larger text settings, shadows became too heavy;... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/you-once-said-scaledmetric-created-inconsistent-shadows-that-sounds-odd-what-broke--gvcqnmcdl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: You once said @ScaledMetric created inconsistent shadows. That sounds odd. What broke? | daily.dev og:description: Using @ScaledMetric to scale shadow radius in SwiftUI caused visual inconsistency across dynamic type sizes. On larger text settings, shadows became too heavy;... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/you-once-said-scaledmetric-created-inconsistent-shadows-that-sounds-odd-what-broke--gvcqnmcdl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GVCQnmCDL.png og:image:alt: You once said @ScaledMetric created inconsistent shadows. That sounds odd. What broke? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # You once said @ScaledMetric created inconsistent shadows. That sounds odd. What broke? **[Rebeloper](https://daily.dev/sources/rebeloper)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Using @ScaledMetric to scale shadow radius in SwiftUI caused visual inconsistency across dynamic type sizes. On larger text settings, shadows became too heavy; on smaller settings, they disappeared entirely. The fix was keeping visual effects like shadows fixed rather than scaling them with text size, since not all UI properties should respond to accessibility text size changes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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