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rollingcodes

Reputation: 16082

iPhone UIFont boldFont With name

I have looked at the headers for UIFont but it has all class methods and only one instance method and some useless properties. I would like to know how to set the font to have a font name, and bold font weight kinda like [[UIFont alloc] initWithFontName:@"Courier New" weight:@"Bold" size:14];. Thanks for any help in advance!

~Thommy

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8171

Answers (3)

Ben M
Ben M

Reputation: 2475

I added a category to UIFont to do this, provided the Bold version of the font contains the word bold...

- (UIFont *)boldFont {
    NSArray *fontNames = [UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName:self.familyName];
    for (NSString *fontName in fontNames) {
        NSString *upperCaseFontName = [fontName uppercaseString];
        if ([upperCaseFontName rangeOfString:@"BOLD"].location != NSNotFound) {
            return [UIFont fontWithName:fontName size:self.pointSize];
        }
    }
    return self;
}

Upvotes: 5

rollingcodes
rollingcodes

Reputation: 16082

I figured out the answer, and that was to use the font-family's bolded version of the font: CourierNewPS-BoldMT and that worked :

I found this out by using the [UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName:@"Courier New"] method which returned an array of all the different variations of Courier New including, Bolded and Italic etc.

Upvotes: 6

hotpaw2
hotpaw2

Reputation: 70743

A Google search turns up this list of available iPhone font names.

Upvotes: 3

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