Global Scaling

Windows 95 provides a Custom Font Size feature—that is, the ability to globally scale all fonts and most other visual elements on the screen by changing the number of pixels used to represent a "logical inch." To be compatible with this feature, applications should avoid drawing in MM_TEXT mode, which bypasses logical scaling. If an element of the application's user interface uses MM_TEXT while the rest does not, that one element will be drawn out of proportion to all the rest of the screen elements.

It is important to note that bitmaps are not automatically scaled by this factor. Bitmaps are discussed further in the next section.