I want to know the font of an installed app name in IOS.
I am not talking about the fonts being used in an app.
When app is installed on an iphone, we see a name for it. I want to know what is font of it by default? Is there a way to change the font of it?
Its the default apple font (System font) used by the iOS and it varies from iOS8 to iOS9. If you want to change the display font below the Application Icon on your home screen you actually cannot do it.
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I'm planning to create a keyboard in iOS for a language script which has unicode block allocated to it but neither android nor iOS has it's font. I'll get the font made by someone but will other apps like WhatsApp use that font instead of showing boxes
I have some nice fonts that I like to use in my iOS applications. However, it is slightly annoying to add the font to Xcode every time. Is there a way I can keep add a font permanently to a project so it will stay in there forever? Please let me know if I am not being specific enough. Thanks!
Unfortunately only standard iOS fonts are "permanently" in Xcode. Other fonts have to be added in manually when you want to use it in a specific project.
This is because when you add the font it is included in your bundle when uploaded to the app store vs. the system fonts already being on the iOS system.
Trying to style my UILabel, in Attributes Inspector I set the font of my attributed text to Apple Chancery. In the preview window it shows correctly, but in the UIView itself the font is not applying. And when I try running the device just in case, the font still does not show. If I change the font to something else, this "something else" shows. So is there a known problem with iPhone simulators and devices not showing certain fonts that are in fact available in Xcode? I am using Xcode-6
Xcode displays fonts found in the Mac, not on the actual iOS device. Before selecting a font, you should make sure it is available on iOS devices.
Sites such as http://iosfonts.com/ or even trial and error can help.
Apple Chancery is only present in Mac OS X, but you can load ttf programmatically (see Google for the ttf) :
(I don't know if you are allowed to use this font via ttf, see the font license)
Copy the ttf to your Xcode project
Link your UILabel to your source code
Then, set custom font :
[myLabel setFont: [UIFont fontWithName:#"Apple Chancery" size:15]];
I'm trying to render a simple UITextView in a custom font in my iOS app. This font is for the Urdu language and I specifically need the stylized look of the characters.
I'm certain that I've followed all requisite steps correctly (the .ttf file's target membership, info.plist entry, finding out and using the right font name etc.), since I confirmed this by logging:
NSLog(#"%#", poem.font.fontName);
where *poem is my UITextView.
The strange thing is that when I install this font on my Mac and type in the same text in text-edit, the font renders as it should.
Mac OS screenshot:
Simulator/iOS Device screenshot:
Any explanation?
You can simply use UITextView, but instead of using the text property, use the attributedText property to set the text. That should do the trick, in iOS 7+.
If you want to support iOS 6 or earlier, use CoreText.
My app uses the lovely Avenir font which is built in to iOS6 but not iOS5. How can I get it onto iOS5? I know I can fall back to a different font on iOS5 (eg just use System font) but I don't want to do that. Can I build the Avenir font into my app some how?
No and Yes, you could just supply the font with your app.
But you will need to buy a distribution license for the font, this will be very costly.
Your best option is to fall back to an other font on iOS5 or just not support iOS5.