diff --git a/docs/architecture.md b/docs/architecture.md
index 94dfe8e..e2e2e1a 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.md
+++ b/docs/architecture.md
@@ -305,9 +305,15 @@ toolbars deliberately stay on `--background`. Accent tones: one
 `@theme inline` maps tokens to Tailwind utilities (`bg-primary`,
 `text-icon-folder`, `bg-cursor-tint`). Selected rows are `bg-primary/15`
 (follow the accent); the cursor row uses `--cursor-tint` so graphite stays
-pixel-identical to the old neutral hover. Text-size levels set `--row-h`,
-`--list-font` etc. per `data-text` attribute, consumed via `h-(--row-h)` /
-`text-(length:--list-font)` arbitrary utilities.
+pixel-identical to the old neutral hover. **Interface scale** (`settings.uiScale`,
+0.5–4 in 0.1 steps): one root font-size lever — `applyUiScale` sets
+`html { font-size: 16px * scale }`, and since EVERY size in the app is rem
+(panel tokens like `--row-h`, all Tailwind utilities, ng-icon sizes, `--w7-fs`
+and the 7.css bridge in 7like.css), both skins scale whole, chrome included.
+Driven by the tab-bar stepper, Ctrl/Cmd +/−/0, and preload-baked for a
+flash-free first paint. It replaced the 3-tier `data-text` axis; the store
+migrates old `textSize` values. TS that measures rem-sized CSS converts through
+`@core/metrics` `remPx()` — never an assumed 16.
 
 ### Skins (`settings.skin`: `modern | win7`)
 
@@ -335,7 +341,7 @@ main window still ran the old one.
 
 **Stylesheet split.** `ui/src/styles.css` holds only what BOTH skins consume —
 the `@layer` statement, the Tailwind import, OKLCH tokens, `@theme inline`,
-`data-text` sizes, animations, the accent axis, and the `html, body` base. Each
+panel-chrome tokens, animations, the accent axis, and the `html, body` base. Each
 skin's own rules live in its folder (`skins/7like/7like.css`,
 `skins/shadlike/shadlike.css`) and are `@import`ed from there. `shadlike.css` is
 near-empty by nature: that skin IS the shared token system plus inline Tailwind.
@@ -368,8 +374,10 @@ right too. It adds NO new tokens on purpose — a new colour would need another
 `:root.win7[data-accent]` feeds it to `--w7-w-bg`, which is authentic (Win7
 shipped "Window Color"). Dark Win7 is hand-authored (Microsoft never shipped
 one) as ~20 `--w7-*` overrides, duplicated forced + system like every other
-dark block. `--w7-font` is restated as a px `font` shorthand so `data-text`
-still scales and 7.css's `pt` shorthand stops resetting weight/line-height.
+dark block. `--w7-font` is restated as a rem `font` shorthand so the interface
+scale reaches it and 7.css's `pt` shorthand stops resetting weight/line-height;
+the rest of 7.css's px metrics are re-expressed in rem by the scale bridge in
+7like.css's `skinfix`.
 
 **Markup hooks**: `role="progressbar"` (+aria) on the transfer bars,
 `has-scrollbar` on scroll containers (7.css only styles `::-webkit-scrollbar`
diff --git a/docs/gotchas.md b/docs/gotchas.md
index 74a2b20..172848b 100644
--- a/docs/gotchas.md
+++ b/docs/gotchas.md
@@ -54,6 +54,38 @@ touching the adjacent code.
   it** — not even in an HTML comment. A backtick in a comment terminates the
   literal and the errors point at the prose, not at the quoting.
 
+## The interface scale (root font-size lever)
+
+- **electrobun's native page zoom is a silent no-op on Linux — do not reach for
+  it.** `webviewSetPageZoom` in the shipped `libNativeWrapper.so` (v1.18.1, and
+  the `_cef.so`, and the copy in our own build output) is a compiled
+  empty-body stub: the disassembly has no `call` instruction, and
+  `webkit_web_view_set_zoom_level` is not even in the library's imports.
+  `webviewGetPageZoom` returns a hardcoded `1.0` from `.rodata`, so the failure
+  is unobservable through the API — set 2.0, read back "1.0 = success". The
+  JSDoc's "(WebKit only)" means macOS WKWebView. This is why the scale is CSS.
+- **Everything the UI sizes with must be rem.** The scale works by setting the
+  root font-size, so a px value freezes while everything around it grows. The
+  three px reservoirs were: the panel-chrome tokens (`--row-h` etc.), 93
+  `text-[11px]` arbitraries, and 7.css itself — 370 px values, zero rem, with
+  `--w7-font` reaching only 15 rules' typography. 7like.css's `skinfix` carries
+  a scale bridge re-expressing 7.css's vars and hardcoded box metrics in rem.
+  1px hairlines and focus rects stay px deliberately (crisp at any scale; the
+  `tr` border exists to stop selection shifting rows).
+- **Restating a 7.css rule in `skinfix` also outranks 7.css's VARIANTS of that
+  rule — by layer, regardless of specificity.** The title-bar-controls
+  restatement silently shrank the close button from 48px to 29px (7.css widens
+  it via `button[aria-label=Close]`), and the tablist padding flattened the
+  active tab's 4px raise. Caught only by the harness pixel diff. When bridging
+  a rule, grep 7.scoped.css for every variant that overrides the same
+  properties and restate those too.
+- **px constants in TS that mirror rem-sized CSS are latent scale bugs.** The
+  shadlike context menu's `MENU_W = 224` was a hardcoded mirror of `w-56`
+  (14rem): box grew, math didn't, flip fired at the wrong edge. Convert through
+  `@core/metrics` `remPx()` at use time — it reads the LIVE root font-size,
+  and per call, since the scale changes mid-session. The editor's canvas-based
+  `charWidth` is cached keyed on the computed font string for the same reason.
+
 ## The two skin trees (`ui/src/app/skins/`)
 
 - **`.win7` is not a name we may change.** `7.scoped.css` is precompiled with
diff --git a/ui/src/app/core/shortcuts.service.ts b/ui/src/app/core/shortcuts.service.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..56e95e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/src/app/core/shortcuts.service.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
+
+/**
+ * Every window-level shortcut the app answers to, by name. Components switch
+ * on these ids instead of key-matching inline, so the whole keymap is ONE
+ * table — the precondition for the vim-style bindings planned next, which
+ * will need a mode/leader state machine wrapped around exactly this point.
+ */
+export type ShortcutId =
+  // main window (workspace/tab management)
+  | 'new-tab'
+  | 'close-tab'
+  | 'cycle-tab'
+  | 'cycle-tab-back'
+  | 'go-to-tab' // 1-9; the digit rides in ShortcutMatch.digit
+  // editor window
+  | 'save'
+  | 'find'
+  | 'close-window'
+  | 'toggle-wrap'
+  // any window
+  | 'scale-up'
+  | 'scale-down'
+  | 'scale-reset';
+
+export interface ShortcutMatch {
+  id: ShortcutId;
+  /** Only for go-to-tab: the digit pressed, 1–9. */
+  digit?: number;
+}
+
+/** Which keymap a window consults. 'manager' answers only to the any-window
+ *  shortcuts (scale). Escape/Tab stay component-local: their meaning is
+ *  contextual state (find bar open? close prompt up? which pane?), not a
+ *  global binding. */
+export type ShortcutScope = 'main' | 'editor' | 'manager';
+
+/**
+ * The keyboard layer: modifier helpers + one declarative keymap.
+ *
+ * House rules encoded here rather than re-derived per component (they were
+ * previously copy-pasted inline in six places, drifting apart):
+ * - `mod` is metaKey OR ctrlKey — ⌘ on macOS, Ctrl elsewhere. The keyboard
+ *   does not change with the window chrome (platform.ts says the same about
+ *   MOD_LABEL).
+ * - Layout-dependent keys match on `event.code`, not `event.key`: digits
+ *   (AZERTY's digit row shifts), +/- (key varies wildly across layouts), and
+ *   letter chords with Alt (macOS Option produces Ω for ⌥Z). Plain letter
+ *   chords match on `key` so they follow the user's layout.
+ * - isTypingTarget guards shortcuts that would be hostile mid-typing. It is
+ *   deliberately NOT applied inside resolve(): the existing bindings rely on
+ *   the path bar's stopPropagation and the editor WANTS Mod+S while typing.
+ *   Callers opt in per shortcut (the scale keys do).
+ */
+@Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' })
+export class ShortcutsService {
+  /** The platform command modifier: ⌘ on macOS, Ctrl elsewhere. Mouse events
+   *  qualify too — Mod+click toggle-select in the panels uses the same rule. */
+  isMod(event: KeyboardEvent | MouseEvent): boolean {
+    return event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey;
+  }
+
+  /** True when the event originates from something the user types into. */
+  isTypingTarget(event: KeyboardEvent): boolean {
+    const target = event.target as HTMLElement | null;
+    return !!target?.closest('input, textarea, select, [contenteditable="true"]');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Match an event against the scope's keymap. Returns null for anything the
+   * table does not claim — callers must then leave the event alone.
+   */
+  resolve(event: KeyboardEvent, scope: ShortcutScope): ShortcutMatch | null {
+    const mod = this.isMod(event);
+    const key = event.key.toLowerCase();
+
+    // ---- any window: interface scale ----
+    // event.code, not key: '+' needs Shift on many layouts and '-' moves
+    // around; the physical Equal/Minus keys (and the numpad pair) are stable.
+    if (mod && !event.altKey) {
+      if (event.code === 'Equal' || event.code === 'NumpadAdd') return { id: 'scale-up' };
+      if (event.code === 'Minus' || event.code === 'NumpadSubtract') return { id: 'scale-down' };
+      if (event.code === 'Digit0' || event.code === 'Numpad0') return { id: 'scale-reset' };
+    }
+
+    if (scope === 'manager') return null; // any-window shortcuts only
+
+    if (scope === 'main') {
+      if (mod && key === 't') return { id: 'new-tab' };
+      if (mod && key === 'w') return { id: 'close-tab' };
+      // ctrlKey only, never meta: ⌘Tab is the macOS app switcher
+      if (event.ctrlKey && event.key === 'Tab') {
+        return { id: event.shiftKey ? 'cycle-tab-back' : 'cycle-tab' };
+      }
+      if (mod && !event.shiftKey && !event.altKey) {
+        const digit = /^(?:Digit|Numpad)([1-9])$/.exec(event.code)?.[1];
+        if (digit) return { id: 'go-to-tab', digit: Number(digit) };
+      }
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    // scope === 'editor'
+    if (mod && key === 's') return { id: 'save' };
+    if (mod && key === 'f') return { id: 'find' };
+    // on macOS the app menu intercepts ⌘W before this ever fires; this arm is
+    // the Windows/Linux path
+    if (mod && key === 'w') return { id: 'close-window' };
+    if (event.altKey && event.code === 'KeyZ') return { id: 'toggle-wrap' };
+    return null;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/ui/src/app/skins/7like/app.ts b/ui/src/app/skins/7like/app.ts
index 2445ff7..1152432 100644
--- a/ui/src/app/skins/7like/app.ts
+++ b/ui/src/app/skins/7like/app.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import { PanelsService } from '@core/panels.service';
 import { blockNativeContextMenu } from '@core/platform';
 import { RpcService } from '@core/rpc.service';
 import { SettingsService } from '@core/settings.service';
+import { ShortcutsService } from '@core/shortcuts.service';
 import { StatusBar } from './status-bar/status-bar';
 import { TabBar } from './tab-bar/tab-bar';
 import { TitleBar } from './title-bar/title-bar';
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ export class App {
   readonly connections = inject(ConnectionsService);
   private readonly transfers = inject(TransfersService);
   private readonly settings = inject(SettingsService);
+  private readonly shortcuts = inject(ShortcutsService);
   private readonly updater = inject(UpdaterService);
 
   /** The connection-manager window is open — this window is modal-blocked. */
@@ -176,26 +178,43 @@ export class App {
     }
   }
 
-  /** Tab (workspace) shortcuts — panel-level keys live on the panels themselves. */
+  /** Window shortcuts — matching lives in ShortcutsService (one keymap for the
+   *  app); this switch only maps ids onto actions. Panel-level keys stay on
+   *  the panels themselves. */
   onWindowKeydown(event: KeyboardEvent): void {
     if (this.managerOpen()) return; // modal-blocked behind the manager
-    const mod = event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey;
-    if (mod && event.key.toLowerCase() === 't') {
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.panels.newWorkspace();
-    } else if (mod && event.key.toLowerCase() === 'w') {
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.panels.closeWorkspace(this.panels.activeWorkspaceId());
-    } else if (event.ctrlKey && event.key === 'Tab') {
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.panels.cycleWorkspace(event.shiftKey ? -1 : 1);
-    } else if (mod && !event.shiftKey && !event.altKey) {
-      // ⌘1–⌘8 jump to that tab, ⌘9 to the last (Ctrl+digit elsewhere), like
-      // Firefox. Matched on event.code so the digit row works on any layout.
-      const digit = /^(?:Digit|Numpad)([1-9])$/.exec(event.code)?.[1];
-      if (!digit) return;
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.panels.goToWorkspace(digit === '9' ? -1 : Number(digit) - 1);
+    const match = this.shortcuts.resolve(event, 'main');
+    if (!match) return;
+    // scale keys are hostile mid-typing ('-' in a rename prompt must type '-');
+    // the tab shortcuts keep firing there, as they always did
+    if (match.id.startsWith('scale-') && this.shortcuts.isTypingTarget(event)) return;
+    event.preventDefault();
+    switch (match.id) {
+      case 'new-tab':
+        this.panels.newWorkspace();
+        break;
+      case 'close-tab':
+        this.panels.closeWorkspace(this.panels.activeWorkspaceId());
+        break;
+      case 'cycle-tab':
+        this.panels.cycleWorkspace(1);
+        break;
+      case 'cycle-tab-back':
+        this.panels.cycleWorkspace(-1);
+        break;
+      case 'go-to-tab':
+        // ⌘1–⌘8 jump to that tab, ⌘9 to the last, like Firefox
+        this.panels.goToWorkspace(match.digit === 9 ? -1 : match.digit! - 1);
+        break;
+      case 'scale-up':
+        this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() + 0.1);
+        break;
+      case 'scale-down':
+        this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() - 0.1);
+        break;
+      case 'scale-reset':
+        this.settings.setUiScale(1);
+        break;
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/ui/src/app/skins/7like/connection-manager/connection-manager.ts b/ui/src/app/skins/7like/connection-manager/connection-manager.ts
index e14eecc..45ad7ab 100644
--- a/ui/src/app/skins/7like/connection-manager/connection-manager.ts
+++ b/ui/src/app/skins/7like/connection-manager/connection-manager.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { DialogsService } from '@core/dialogs.service';
 import { blockNativeContextMenu } from '@core/platform';
 import { RpcService } from '@core/rpc.service';
 import { SettingsService } from '@core/settings.service';
+import { ShortcutsService } from '@core/shortcuts.service';
 import { TitleBar } from '../title-bar/title-bar';
 import { Toasts } from '../toasts/toasts';
 
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ function fromDraft(d: Draft): SavedConnection {
   templateUrl: './connection-manager.html',
   host: {
     '(window:keydown.escape)': 'onEscape()',
+    '(window:keydown)': 'onWindowKeydown($event)',
     '(window:contextmenu)': 'blockContextMenu($event)',
     // Aero desaturates an unfocused window's chrome — see .window.active.
     '(window:focus)': 'windowFocused.set(true)',
@@ -94,6 +96,7 @@ export class ConnectionManager {
   // injected for its side effects: fetches settings and applies theme/accent/
   // text-size data attributes to this window's document root
   private readonly settings = inject(SettingsService);
+  private readonly shortcuts = inject(ShortcutsService);
 
   readonly draft = signal<Draft | null>(null);
   readonly busy = signal(false);
@@ -149,6 +152,16 @@ export class ConnectionManager {
     if (!this.dialogs.anyOpen) this.close();
   }
 
+  /** Any-window shortcuts (interface scale). Escape has its own binding above. */
+  onWindowKeydown(event: KeyboardEvent): void {
+    const match = this.shortcuts.resolve(event, 'manager');
+    if (!match || this.shortcuts.isTypingTarget(event)) return;
+    event.preventDefault();
+    if (match.id === 'scale-up') this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() + 0.1);
+    else if (match.id === 'scale-down') this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() - 0.1);
+    else if (match.id === 'scale-reset') this.settings.setUiScale(1);
+  }
+
   blockContextMenu(event: Event): void {
     blockNativeContextMenu(event);
   }
diff --git a/ui/src/app/skins/7like/editor-window/editor-window.ts b/ui/src/app/skins/7like/editor-window/editor-window.ts
index 6c654b6..b5bc7bd 100644
--- a/ui/src/app/skins/7like/editor-window/editor-window.ts
+++ b/ui/src/app/skins/7like/editor-window/editor-window.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { I18nService } from '@core/i18n.service';
 import { ALT_LABEL, blockNativeContextMenu, EDITOR_CONTEXT, MOD_LABEL } from '@core/platform';
 import { RpcService } from '@core/rpc.service';
 import { SettingsService } from '@core/settings.service';
+import { ShortcutsService } from '@core/shortcuts.service';
 import { ToastService } from '@core/toast.service';
 import { TitleBar } from '../title-bar/title-bar';
 import { Toasts } from '../toasts/toasts';
@@ -108,6 +109,7 @@ export class EditorWindow {
   // injected for its side effects: fetches settings and applies theme/accent/
   // text-size data attributes to this window's document root
   private readonly settings = inject(SettingsService);
+  private readonly shortcuts = inject(ShortcutsService);
 
   private draftTimer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null = null;
   private lastSentDirty = false;
@@ -324,22 +326,43 @@ export class EditorWindow {
   // ---- keyboard ----
 
   onKeydown(event: KeyboardEvent): void {
-    const mod = event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey;
-    if (mod && event.key.toLowerCase() === 's') {
+    // Chord shortcuts resolve through the shared keymap (ShortcutsService);
+    // Escape and Tab stay below because their meaning is THIS window's state
+    // (close prompt up? find bar open? caret in the textarea?), not a binding.
+    const match = this.shortcuts.resolve(event, 'editor');
+    if (match) {
+      // scale keys must not fire while typing — but the editor's own chords
+      // (save/find/wrap) are WANTED mid-typing, so the guard is per-shortcut
+      if (match.id.startsWith('scale-') && this.shortcuts.isTypingTarget(event)) return;
       event.preventDefault();
-      void this.save();
-    } else if (mod && event.key.toLowerCase() === 'f') {
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.openFind();
-    } else if (mod && event.key.toLowerCase() === 'w') {
-      // reaches us on Windows/Linux; on macOS the app menu intercepts ⌘W and
-      // bun routes it back as editorCloseRequest
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.requestClose();
-    } else if (event.altKey && event.code === 'KeyZ') {
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.toggleWrap();
-    } else if (event.key === 'Escape' && this.closePrompt()) {
+      switch (match.id) {
+        case 'save':
+          void this.save();
+          break;
+        case 'find':
+          this.openFind();
+          break;
+        case 'close-window':
+          // reaches us on Windows/Linux; on macOS the app menu intercepts ⌘W
+          // and bun routes it back as editorCloseRequest
+          this.requestClose();
+          break;
+        case 'toggle-wrap':
+          this.toggleWrap();
+          break;
+        case 'scale-up':
+          this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() + 0.1);
+          break;
+        case 'scale-down':
+          this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() - 0.1);
+          break;
+        case 'scale-reset':
+          this.settings.setUiScale(1);
+          break;
+      }
+      return;
+    }
+    if (event.key === 'Escape' && this.closePrompt()) {
       event.preventDefault();
       this.cancelClose();
     } else if (event.key === 'Escape' && this.findOpen()) {
diff --git a/ui/src/app/skins/7like/file-panel/file-panel.ts b/ui/src/app/skins/7like/file-panel/file-panel.ts
index 8739410..0be44f6 100644
--- a/ui/src/app/skins/7like/file-panel/file-panel.ts
+++ b/ui/src/app/skins/7like/file-panel/file-panel.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import { PanelsService, type Side, type SortKey } from '@core/panels.service';
 import { IS_WINDOWS } from '@core/platform';
 import { RpcService } from '@core/rpc.service';
 import { SettingsService } from '@core/settings.service';
+import { ShortcutsService } from '@core/shortcuts.service';
 import { TransfersService } from '@core/transfers.service';
 
 /** Optional columns in fixed display order, with their track widths. */
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ export class FilePanel {
   readonly dialogs = inject(DialogsService);
   private readonly menu = inject(ContextMenuService);
   private readonly settings = inject(SettingsService);
+  private readonly shortcuts = inject(ShortcutsService);
   private readonly rpc = inject(RpcService);
   readonly panel = computed(() => this.panels.get(this.side()));
   readonly isActive = computed(() => this.panels.activeSide() === this.side());
@@ -212,7 +214,7 @@ export class FilePanel {
     const panel = this.panel();
     if (event.shiftKey) {
       panel.selectRange(this.lastClickedIndex, index);
-    } else if (event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey) {
+    } else if (this.shortcuts.isMod(event)) {
       const entry = panel.sorted()[index];
       if (entry) panel.toggleSelect(entry.name);
     } else {
@@ -258,7 +260,7 @@ export class FilePanel {
       this.panels.setActiveSide(this.panels.otherSide(this.side()));
       return;
     }
-    if ((event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey) && key.toLowerCase() === 'a') {
+    if (this.shortcuts.isMod(event) && key.toLowerCase() === 'a') {
       event.preventDefault();
       panel.selectAll();
       return;
diff --git a/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/app.ts b/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/app.ts
index da78b6f..ee16af1 100644
--- a/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/app.ts
+++ b/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/app.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import { PanelsService } from '@core/panels.service';
 import { blockNativeContextMenu } from '@core/platform';
 import { RpcService } from '@core/rpc.service';
 import { SettingsService } from '@core/settings.service';
+import { ShortcutsService } from '@core/shortcuts.service';
 import { StatusBar } from './status-bar/status-bar';
 import { TabBar } from './tab-bar/tab-bar';
 import { ToastService } from '@core/toast.service';
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ export class App {
   readonly connections = inject(ConnectionsService);
   private readonly transfers = inject(TransfersService);
   private readonly settings = inject(SettingsService);
+  private readonly shortcuts = inject(ShortcutsService);
   private readonly updater = inject(UpdaterService);
 
   /** The connection-manager window is open — this window is modal-blocked. */
@@ -154,26 +156,43 @@ export class App {
     }
   }
 
-  /** Tab (workspace) shortcuts — panel-level keys live on the panels themselves. */
+  /** Window shortcuts — matching lives in ShortcutsService (one keymap for the
+   *  app); this switch only maps ids onto actions. Panel-level keys stay on
+   *  the panels themselves. */
   onWindowKeydown(event: KeyboardEvent): void {
     if (this.managerOpen()) return; // modal-blocked behind the manager
-    const mod = event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey;
-    if (mod && event.key.toLowerCase() === 't') {
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.panels.newWorkspace();
-    } else if (mod && event.key.toLowerCase() === 'w') {
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.panels.closeWorkspace(this.panels.activeWorkspaceId());
-    } else if (event.ctrlKey && event.key === 'Tab') {
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.panels.cycleWorkspace(event.shiftKey ? -1 : 1);
-    } else if (mod && !event.shiftKey && !event.altKey) {
-      // ⌘1–⌘8 jump to that tab, ⌘9 to the last (Ctrl+digit elsewhere), like
-      // Firefox. Matched on event.code so the digit row works on any layout.
-      const digit = /^(?:Digit|Numpad)([1-9])$/.exec(event.code)?.[1];
-      if (!digit) return;
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.panels.goToWorkspace(digit === '9' ? -1 : Number(digit) - 1);
+    const match = this.shortcuts.resolve(event, 'main');
+    if (!match) return;
+    // scale keys are hostile mid-typing ('-' in a rename prompt must type '-');
+    // the tab shortcuts keep firing there, as they always did
+    if (match.id.startsWith('scale-') && this.shortcuts.isTypingTarget(event)) return;
+    event.preventDefault();
+    switch (match.id) {
+      case 'new-tab':
+        this.panels.newWorkspace();
+        break;
+      case 'close-tab':
+        this.panels.closeWorkspace(this.panels.activeWorkspaceId());
+        break;
+      case 'cycle-tab':
+        this.panels.cycleWorkspace(1);
+        break;
+      case 'cycle-tab-back':
+        this.panels.cycleWorkspace(-1);
+        break;
+      case 'go-to-tab':
+        // ⌘1–⌘8 jump to that tab, ⌘9 to the last, like Firefox
+        this.panels.goToWorkspace(match.digit === 9 ? -1 : match.digit! - 1);
+        break;
+      case 'scale-up':
+        this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() + 0.1);
+        break;
+      case 'scale-down':
+        this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() - 0.1);
+        break;
+      case 'scale-reset':
+        this.settings.setUiScale(1);
+        break;
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/connection-manager/connection-manager.ts b/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/connection-manager/connection-manager.ts
index c2dd2f8..6685a6e 100644
--- a/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/connection-manager/connection-manager.ts
+++ b/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/connection-manager/connection-manager.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { DialogsService } from '@core/dialogs.service';
 import { blockNativeContextMenu, IS_MAC_CHROME } from '@core/platform';
 import { RpcService } from '@core/rpc.service';
 import { SettingsService } from '@core/settings.service';
+import { ShortcutsService } from '@core/shortcuts.service';
 import { Toasts } from '../toasts/toasts';
 
 interface Draft {
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ function fromDraft(d: Draft): SavedConnection {
   templateUrl: './connection-manager.html',
   host: {
     '(window:keydown.escape)': 'onEscape()',
+    '(window:keydown)': 'onWindowKeydown($event)',
     '(window:contextmenu)': 'blockContextMenu($event)',
   },
 })
@@ -88,6 +90,7 @@ export class ConnectionManager {
   // injected for its side effects: fetches settings and applies theme/accent/
   // text-size data attributes to this window's document root
   private readonly settings = inject(SettingsService);
+  private readonly shortcuts = inject(ShortcutsService);
 
   readonly draft = signal<Draft | null>(null);
   readonly busy = signal(false);
@@ -143,6 +146,16 @@ export class ConnectionManager {
     if (!this.dialogs.anyOpen) this.close();
   }
 
+  /** Any-window shortcuts (interface scale). Escape has its own binding above. */
+  onWindowKeydown(event: KeyboardEvent): void {
+    const match = this.shortcuts.resolve(event, 'manager');
+    if (!match || this.shortcuts.isTypingTarget(event)) return;
+    event.preventDefault();
+    if (match.id === 'scale-up') this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() + 0.1);
+    else if (match.id === 'scale-down') this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() - 0.1);
+    else if (match.id === 'scale-reset') this.settings.setUiScale(1);
+  }
+
   blockContextMenu(event: Event): void {
     blockNativeContextMenu(event);
   }
diff --git a/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/editor-window/editor-window.ts b/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/editor-window/editor-window.ts
index cee82f5..144d3cb 100644
--- a/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/editor-window/editor-window.ts
+++ b/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/editor-window/editor-window.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { I18nService } from '@core/i18n.service';
 import { ALT_LABEL, blockNativeContextMenu, EDITOR_CONTEXT, IS_MAC_CHROME, MOD_LABEL } from '@core/platform';
 import { RpcService } from '@core/rpc.service';
 import { SettingsService } from '@core/settings.service';
+import { ShortcutsService } from '@core/shortcuts.service';
 import { ToastService } from '@core/toast.service';
 import { Toasts } from '../toasts/toasts';
 
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ export class EditorWindow {
   // injected for its side effects: fetches settings and applies theme/accent/
   // text-size data attributes to this window's document root
   private readonly settings = inject(SettingsService);
+  private readonly shortcuts = inject(ShortcutsService);
 
   private draftTimer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null = null;
   private lastSentDirty = false;
@@ -317,22 +319,43 @@ export class EditorWindow {
   // ---- keyboard ----
 
   onKeydown(event: KeyboardEvent): void {
-    const mod = event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey;
-    if (mod && event.key.toLowerCase() === 's') {
+    // Chord shortcuts resolve through the shared keymap (ShortcutsService);
+    // Escape and Tab stay below because their meaning is THIS window's state
+    // (close prompt up? find bar open? caret in the textarea?), not a binding.
+    const match = this.shortcuts.resolve(event, 'editor');
+    if (match) {
+      // scale keys must not fire while typing — but the editor's own chords
+      // (save/find/wrap) are WANTED mid-typing, so the guard is per-shortcut
+      if (match.id.startsWith('scale-') && this.shortcuts.isTypingTarget(event)) return;
       event.preventDefault();
-      void this.save();
-    } else if (mod && event.key.toLowerCase() === 'f') {
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.openFind();
-    } else if (mod && event.key.toLowerCase() === 'w') {
-      // reaches us on Windows/Linux; on macOS the app menu intercepts ⌘W and
-      // bun routes it back as editorCloseRequest
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.requestClose();
-    } else if (event.altKey && event.code === 'KeyZ') {
-      event.preventDefault();
-      this.toggleWrap();
-    } else if (event.key === 'Escape' && this.closePrompt()) {
+      switch (match.id) {
+        case 'save':
+          void this.save();
+          break;
+        case 'find':
+          this.openFind();
+          break;
+        case 'close-window':
+          // reaches us on Windows/Linux; on macOS the app menu intercepts ⌘W
+          // and bun routes it back as editorCloseRequest
+          this.requestClose();
+          break;
+        case 'toggle-wrap':
+          this.toggleWrap();
+          break;
+        case 'scale-up':
+          this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() + 0.1);
+          break;
+        case 'scale-down':
+          this.settings.setUiScale(this.settings.uiScale() - 0.1);
+          break;
+        case 'scale-reset':
+          this.settings.setUiScale(1);
+          break;
+      }
+      return;
+    }
+    if (event.key === 'Escape' && this.closePrompt()) {
       event.preventDefault();
       this.cancelClose();
     } else if (event.key === 'Escape' && this.findOpen()) {
diff --git a/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/file-panel/file-panel.ts b/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/file-panel/file-panel.ts
index bb8391d..422ada1 100644
--- a/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/file-panel/file-panel.ts
+++ b/ui/src/app/skins/shadlike/file-panel/file-panel.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import { PanelsService, type Side, type SortKey } from '@core/panels.service';
 import { IS_WINDOWS } from '@core/platform';
 import { RpcService } from '@core/rpc.service';
 import { SettingsService } from '@core/settings.service';
+import { ShortcutsService } from '@core/shortcuts.service';
 import { TransfersService } from '@core/transfers.service';
 
 /** Optional columns in fixed display order, with their track widths. */
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ export class FilePanel {
   readonly dialogs = inject(DialogsService);
   private readonly menu = inject(ContextMenuService);
   private readonly settings = inject(SettingsService);
+  private readonly shortcuts = inject(ShortcutsService);
   private readonly rpc = inject(RpcService);
   readonly panel = computed(() => this.panels.get(this.side()));
   readonly isActive = computed(() => this.panels.activeSide() === this.side());
@@ -220,7 +222,7 @@ export class FilePanel {
     const panel = this.panel();
     if (event.shiftKey) {
       panel.selectRange(this.lastClickedIndex, index);
-    } else if (event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey) {
+    } else if (this.shortcuts.isMod(event)) {
       const entry = panel.sorted()[index];
       if (entry) panel.toggleSelect(entry.name);
     } else {
@@ -266,7 +268,7 @@ export class FilePanel {
       this.panels.setActiveSide(this.panels.otherSide(this.side()));
       return;
     }
-    if ((event.metaKey || event.ctrlKey) && key.toLowerCase() === 'a') {
+    if (this.shortcuts.isMod(event) && key.toLowerCase() === 'a') {
       event.preventDefault();
       panel.selectAll();
       return;