It’s a fishy business to mess with the font names. And supposedly you have an italic font and you wanna make it bold – adding simply @”-Bold” to the name doesn’t work. There’s much more elegant way: – (UIFont *)boldFontWithFont:(UIFont *)font { UIFontDescriptor * fontD = [font.fontDescriptor fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits:UIFontDescriptorTraitBold]; return [UIFont fontWithDescriptor:fontD size:0]; } size:0 means … Read more
With Swift 5 and iOS 12, you can choose one of the three following solutions in order to solve your problem. #1. Using UIContentSizeCategoryAdjusting‘s adjustsFontForContentSizeCategory property UILabel, UITextField and UITextView conform to UIContentSizeCategoryAdjusting protocol and therefore have an instance property called adjustsFontForContentSizeCategory. adjustsFontForContentSizeCategory has the following declaration: A Boolean value indicating whether the object automatically … Read more
If you want to retain the system font and make it bold: [infoLabel setFont:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:16]];
Might be interesting for you as Quick Win within the Debugger: (lldb) po [UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName:@”Helvetica Neue”] (id) $1 = 0x079d8670 <__NSCFArray 0x79d8670>( HelveticaNeue-Bold, HelveticaNeue-CondensedBlack, HelveticaNeue-Medium, HelveticaNeue, HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold, HelveticaNeue-LightItalic, HelveticaNeue-UltraLightItalic, HelveticaNeue-UltraLight, HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic, HelveticaNeue-Italic ) November 2018 – Update A new swift-y reference for “Custom Fonts with Xcode” – by Chris Ching. I had to update, … Read more
I posted a solution that involves patching ttf font file here: Here’s the solution that worked for my custom font which had the same issue in UILabel, UIButton and such. The problem with the font turned out to be the fact that its ascender property was too small compared to the value of system fonts. … Read more
This is an Apple bug. It was introduced in iOS 7.0.3 and has not yet been fixed as of iOS 7.0.4. It appears to be fixed in the developer preview of iOS 7.1. Here is code (provided by Apple in the dev forums) to workaround the issue: #import <CoreText/CoreText.h> CGFloat size = 14; UIFont *font … Read more
Right click on the TTF -> Get Info “Full Name” is what you’re looking for. That’s what worked for me with TTFs. Edit: I just used a font that had a different name from the “Full Name” in Get Info. For the compilation of this answer, If the quick check above doesn’t work, run this … Read more
You can use system font thin weight: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 34, weight: UIFontWeightThin) List of available weights for San Francisco: UIFontWeightUltraLight UIFontWeightThin UIFontWeightLight UIFontWeightRegular UIFontWeightMedium UIFontWeightSemibold UIFontWeightBold UIFontWeightHeavy UIFontWeightBlack As of iOS 11, UIFontWeight* was renamed to UIFont.Weight.*. More you can get here https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uifont.weight.
Have you tried iOS Fonts? This gives you a visual of all of the available fonts with the ability to enter your own string of text to see how it would look. This doesn’t appear to have been updated for iOS 7 however but I am unaware of any additional fonts which have been added … Read more
Don’t try to play with the font names. Using the font descriptor you need no names: UILabel * label = [[UILabel alloc] init]; // use your label object instead of this UIFontDescriptor * fontD = [label.font.fontDescriptor fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits:UIFontDescriptorTraitBold | UIFontDescriptorTraitItalic]; label.font = [UIFont fontWithDescriptor:fontD size:0]; size:0 means ‘keep the size as is’ With Swift try the … Read more