diff --git a/desktop/src-common/advent/utils.clj b/desktop/src-common/advent/utils.clj
index 2d5a0f29..c1094915 100644
--- a/desktop/src-common/advent/utils.clj
+++ b/desktop/src-common/advent/utils.clj
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   entity)
 
 
-(def ui-scale 1.0)
+(def ui-scale (Double/parseDouble (str (or (System/getenv "UI_SCALE") 1.0))))
 (def mobile? (= 1.5 ui-scale))
 (def max-zoom (if mobile? 0.5 0.75))
 (def min-zoom 0.95)