---
title: minimumScaleFactor
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/nsstringdrawingcontext/minimumscalefactor
---

# minimumScaleFactor

The scale factor that determines the smallest font size to use during drawing.

## Declaration

```swift
var minimumScaleFactor: CGFloat { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion A value of 0.0 corresponds to a scale factor of 1.0. Any value greater than 0.0 is multiplied by the font point size to get the smallest font size that is permissible to use. For example, 0.5 indicates a font that is half the size of the actual font, 0.75 is three-quarters of the font size, and so on. Typically, you specify a value between 0.0 and 1.0 to indicate how much the font can be shrunk during drawing. The default value of this property is 0.0.

## See Also

### Accessing the scale factors

- [actualScaleFactor](uikit/nsstringdrawingcontext/actualscalefactor.md)