iPhone system font

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What is the name of the default system font on the iPhone   I would like to retrieve this for customizing a UIView

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To the delight of font purists everywhere, the iPhone system interface uses Helvetica or a variant thereof.

The original iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS system interface uses Helvetica. As first noted by the always excellent DaringFireball, the iPhone 4 uses a subtly revised font called "Helvetica Neue." DaringFireball also notes that this change is related to the iPhone 4 display rather than the iOS 4 operating system and older iPhone models running iOS 4 still use Helvetica as the system font.

iPod models released prior to the iPhone use either Chicago, Espy Sans, or Myriad and use Helvetica after the release of the iPhone.

From http://www.everyipod.com/iphone-faq/iphone-who-designed-iphone-font-used-iphone-ringtones.html

For iOS9 it has changed to San Fransisco. See http://developer.apple.com/fonts for more info.

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Swift Specific font Setting a specific font in Swift is done like this  let myFont   UIFont name   quot Helvetica quot   size  17   If you don t know the name  you can get a list of the available font names like this  print UIFont familyNames     Or an even more detailed list like this  for familyName in UIFont familyNames         print UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName familyName      But the system font changes from version to version of iOS  So it would be better to get the system font dynamically  System font let myFont   UIFont systemFontOfSize 17   But we have the size hard-coded in  What if the user s eyes are bad and they want to make the font larger  Of course  you could make a setting in your app for the user to change the font size  but this would be annoying if the user had to do this separately for every single app on their phone  It would be easier to just make one change in the general settings    Dynamic font let myFont   UIFont preferredFont forTextStyle   body   Ah  now we have the system font at the user s chosen size for the Text Style we are working with  This is the recommended way of setting the font  See Supporting Dynamic Type for more info on this  Related  Visual List of iOS Fonts How do I make an attributed string using Swift

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You can always use  UIFont  systemFont    UIFont systemFontOfSize 12   NSLog   what is it          systemFont familyName  systemFont fontName     The answer is   Up to iOS 6   Helvetica Helvetica   iOS 7   Helvetica Neue Interface  HelveticaNeueInterface-M3   but you can just use Helvetica Neue

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The default font for iOS is San Francisco   You can refer the link for further details

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I m not sure there is an api to get the default system font name  So I just get the name like this          get system default font     UILabel  label     UILabel alloc  init               fontname   label font fontName       label release     Looks stupid but it works

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Category UIFontSystemFonts for UIFont  UIInterface h  provides several convenient predefined sizes    interface UIFont  UIFontSystemFonts      CGFloat labelFontSize      CGFloat buttonFontSize      CGFloat smallSystemFontSize      CGFloat systemFontSize   end    I use it for chat messages  labels  and it work well when I need to get size of text blocks     UIFont systemFontOfSize  UIFont labelFontSize      Happy coding

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Here is some update for supporting iOS 7  It has Dynamic Font Size now      For any and all apps that support    Dynamic Type     users can select a   font size in iOS 7 that works system wide  simply by visiting the    General  section under  Settings  and selecting  Font Size     UIFont  dynamicFont     UIFont preferredFontForTextStyle UIFontTextStyleBody     And constants list  detailed explanation is here  NSString  const UIFontTextStyleHeadline  NSString  const UIFontTextStyleSubheadline  NSString  const UIFontTextStyleBody  NSString  const UIFontTextStyleFootnote  NSString  const UIFontTextStyleCaption1  NSString  const UIFontTextStyleCaption2

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If you re doing programatic customisation  don t hard code the system font  Use UIFont systemFontOfSize   UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize  and UIFont italicSystemFontOfSize  Apple documentation    This has become especially relevant since iOS 7  which changed the system font to Helvetica Neue   This has become super especially relevant since iOS 9  which changed the system font again to San Francisco

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Swift  You should always use the system defaults and not hard coding the font name because the default font could be changed by Apple at any time   There are a couple of system default fonts normal  bold  italic  with different sizes label  button  others    let font   UIFont systemFont ofSize  UIFont systemFontSize  let font2   UIFont boldSystemFont ofSize  UIFont systemFontSize  let font3   UIFont italicSystemFont ofSize  UIFont systemFontSize    beaware that the default font size depends on the target view  label  button  others   Examples   let labelFont   UIFont systemFont ofSize  UIFont labelFontSize  let buttonFont   UIFont systemFont ofSize  UIFont buttonFontSize  let textFieldFont   UIFont systemFont ofSize  UIFont systemFontSize

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UIFont  systemFont    UIFont systemFontOfSize  UIFont systemFontSize      This will give you the system font with the default system font size applied for the label texts by default

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download required  ttf file add the  ttf file under copy bundle resource  double check whether the  ttf file is added under resource In info pllist add the ttf file name as it is  now open the font book add the  ttf file in the font book  select information icon there you find the postscript name  now give the postscript name in the place of font name

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afaik iPhone uses  Helvetica  by default   lt  iOS 10

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