Can I embed a custom font in an iPhone application

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I would like to have an app include a custom font for rendering text  load it  and then use it with standard UIKit elements like UILabel  Is this possible

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Although some of the answers above are correct, I have written a detailed visual tutorial for people still having problems with fonts.

The solutions above which tell you to add the font to the plist and use

[self.labelOutlet setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Sathu" size:10]];

are the correct ones. Please do now use any other hackish way. If you are still facing problems with finding font names and adding them, here is the tutorial -

Using custom fonts in ios application

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As an enhancement  bdev s answer  here is an updated version for listing out custom fonts only   Step 1  Find out all system fonts using  bdev s answer  amp  save to file   Put the following code in first View Controller s - void viewDidLoad  after  super viewDidLoad   or in App Delegate    NSArray  paths   NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains NSDocumentDirectory                                                       NSUserDomainMask  YES   NSMutableArray  system fonts    NSMutableArray array   for  NSString  familyName in  UIFont familyNames         for  NSString  fontName in  UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName familyName              system fonts addObject fontName           if  paths count   gt  0         system fonts writeToFile   paths objectAtIndex 0                                 stringByAppendingPathComponent   array out   atomically YES       Run the App once  Stop it afterwards   Step 2  Add custom font to project  Using the method shown in the accepted answer  add your custom fonts   remember to update the  plist and add the font files to build by checking Add To Target   Step 3  Compare the system fonts with current font list  Replace the codes in Step 1 to   NSArray  paths   NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains NSDocumentDirectory                                                       NSUserDomainMask  YES   NSMutableArray  system fonts    NSMutableArray arrayWithContentsOfFile   paths objectAtIndex 0                                                                          stringByAppendingPathComponent   array out      for  NSString  familyName in  UIFont familyNames         for  NSString  fontName in  UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName familyName             if    system fonts containsObject fontName                 NSLog        fontName                       Run the App and the list of custom fonts you added will be shown   This applies to iOS 3 2 till iOS 6   future releases are probably working fine    Works with  ttc and  ttf as well

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You can add the required  FONT  files within the resources folder  Then go to the Project Info plist file and use the KEY  Fonts provided by the application  and value as  FONT NAME    Then you can call the method  UIFont fontwithName   FONT NAME  size 12

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I have done this like this   Load the font   -  void loadFont       Get the path to our custom font and create a data provider    NSString  fontPath     NSBundle mainBundle  pathForResource   mycustomfont  ofType   ttf       CGDataProviderRef fontDataProvider   CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename  fontPath UTF8String          Create the font with the data provider  then release the data provider    customFont   CGFontCreateWithDataProvider fontDataProvider     CGDataProviderRelease fontDataProvider        Now  in your drawRect   do something like this   - void drawRect  CGRect rect       super drawRect rect          Get the context      CGContextRef context   UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext        CGContextClearRect context  rect          Set the customFont to be the font used to draw      CGContextSetFont context  customFont           Set how the context draws the font  what color  how big      CGContextSetTextDrawingMode context  kCGTextFillStroke       CGContextSetFillColorWithColor context  self fontColor CGColor       UIColor   strokeColor    UIColor blackColor       CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor context  strokeColor CGColor       CGContextSetFontSize context  48 0f           Create an array of Glyph s the size of text that will be drawn      CGGlyph textToPrint  self theText length            Loop through the entire length of the text      for  int i   0  i  lt   self theText length     i               Store each letter in a Glyph and subtract the MagicNumber to get appropriate value          textToPrint i      self theText uppercaseString  characterAtIndex i    3 - 32            CGAffineTransform textTransform   CGAffineTransformMake 1 0  0 0  0 0  -1 0  0 0  0 0       CGContextSetTextMatrix context  textTransform       CGContextShowGlyphsAtPoint context  20  50  textToPrint   self theText length        Basically you have to do some brute force looping through the text and futzing about with the magic number to find your offset  here  see me using 29  in the font  but it works   Also  you have to make sure the font is legally embeddable  Most aren t and there are lawyers who specialize in this sort of thing  so be warned

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It s not out yet  but the next version of cocos2d  2d game framework  will support variable length bitmap fonts as character maps    http   code google com p cocos2d-iphone issues detail id 317  The author doesn t have a nailed down release date for this version  but I did see a posting that indicated it would be in the next month or two

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It s not out yet  but the next version of cocos2d  2d game framework  will support variable length bitmap fonts as character maps    http   code google com p cocos2d-iphone issues detail id 317  The author doesn t have a nailed down release date for this version  but I did see a posting that indicated it would be in the next month or two

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If you are using xcode 4 3  you have to add the font to the Build Phase under Copy Bundle Resources  according to https   stackoverflow com users 1292829 arne in the thread  Custom Fonts Xcode 4 3  This worked for me  here are the steps I took for custom fonts to work in my app    Add the font to your project  I dragged and dropped the OTF  or TTF  files to a new group I created and accepted xcode s choice of copying the files over to the project folder  Create the UIAppFonts array with your fonts listed as items within the array  Just the names  not the extension  e g   GothamBold    GothamBold-Italic    Click on the project name way at the top of the Project Navigator on the left side of the screen  Click on the Build Phases tab that appears in the main area of xcode  Expand the  Copy Bundle Resources  section and click on     to add the font  Select the font file from the file navigator that pops open when you click on the      Do this for every font you have to add to the project

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Better solution is to add a new property  Fonts provided by application  to your info plist file    Then  you can use your custom font like normal UIFont

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You can add the required  FONT  files within the resources folder  Then go to the Project Info plist file and use the KEY  Fonts provided by the application  and value as  FONT NAME    Then you can call the method  UIFont fontwithName   FONT NAME  size 12

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I have done this like this   Load the font   -  void loadFont       Get the path to our custom font and create a data provider    NSString  fontPath     NSBundle mainBundle  pathForResource   mycustomfont  ofType   ttf       CGDataProviderRef fontDataProvider   CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename  fontPath UTF8String          Create the font with the data provider  then release the data provider    customFont   CGFontCreateWithDataProvider fontDataProvider     CGDataProviderRelease fontDataProvider        Now  in your drawRect   do something like this   - void drawRect  CGRect rect       super drawRect rect          Get the context      CGContextRef context   UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext        CGContextClearRect context  rect          Set the customFont to be the font used to draw      CGContextSetFont context  customFont           Set how the context draws the font  what color  how big      CGContextSetTextDrawingMode context  kCGTextFillStroke       CGContextSetFillColorWithColor context  self fontColor CGColor       UIColor   strokeColor    UIColor blackColor       CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor context  strokeColor CGColor       CGContextSetFontSize context  48 0f           Create an array of Glyph s the size of text that will be drawn      CGGlyph textToPrint  self theText length            Loop through the entire length of the text      for  int i   0  i  lt   self theText length     i               Store each letter in a Glyph and subtract the MagicNumber to get appropriate value          textToPrint i      self theText uppercaseString  characterAtIndex i    3 - 32            CGAffineTransform textTransform   CGAffineTransformMake 1 0  0 0  0 0  -1 0  0 0  0 0       CGContextSetTextMatrix context  textTransform       CGContextShowGlyphsAtPoint context  20  50  textToPrint   self theText length        Basically you have to do some brute force looping through the text and futzing about with the magic number to find your offset  here  see me using 29  in the font  but it works   Also  you have to make sure the font is legally embeddable  Most aren t and there are lawyers who specialize in this sort of thing  so be warned

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Edit  As of iOS 3 2  this functionality is built in  If you need to support pre-3 2  you can still use this solution   I created a simple module that extends UILabel and handles loading  ttf files   I released it opensource under the Apache license and put it on github Here    The important files are FontLabel h and FontLabel m   It uses some of the code from Genericrich s answer   Browse the source Here   OR   Copy your font file into resources Add a key to your Info plist file called UIAppFonts    Fonts provided by application  Make this key an array  For each font you have  enter the full name of your font file  including the extension  as items to the UIAppFonts array  Save Info plist Now in your application you can simply call  UIFont fontWithName   CustomFontName  size 15  to get the custom font to use with your UILabels and UITextViews  etc      For More Information

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I would recommend following one of my favorite short tutorials here  http   codewithchris com common-mistakes-with-adding-custom-fonts-to-your-ios-app  from which this information comes   Step 1 - Drag your  ttf or  otf from Finder into your Project  NOTE - Make sure to click the box to  Add to targets  on your main application target    If you forgot to click to add it to your target then click on the font file in your project hierarchy and on the right side panel click the main app target in the Target Membership section    To make sure your fonts are part of your app target make sure they show up in your Copy Bundle Resources in Build Phases    Step 2 - Add the font file names to your Plist  Go to the Custom iOS Target Properties in your Info Section and add a key to the items in that section called Fonts provided by application  you should see it come up as an option as you type it and it will set itself up as an array  Click the little arrow to open up the array items and type in the names of the  ttf or  otf files that you added to let your app know that these are the font files you want available  NOTE - If your app crashes right after this step then check your spelling on the items you add here    Step 3 - Find out the names of your fonts so you can call them  Quite often the font name seen by your application is different from what you think it is based on the filename for that font  put this in your code and look over the log your application makes to see what font name to call in your code  Swift  for family  String in UIFont familyNames      print    family      for names  String in UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName family         print       names            Objective C  for  NSString  family in  UIFont familyNames        NSLog        family       for  NSString  name in  UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName  family            NSLog          name             Your log should look something like this     Step 4 - Use your new custom font using the name from Step 3  Swift   label font   UIFont name   SourceSansPro-Regular   size  18    Objective C   label font    UIFont fontWithName   SourceSansPro-Regular  size 18

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As all the previous answers indicated  it s very well possible  and pretty easy in newer iOS versions   I know this is not a technical answer  but since a lot of people do make it wrong  thus effectively violating licenses which may cost you a lot of money if you re being sued   let me strengthen one caveat here  Embedding a custom font in an iOS  or any other kind  app is basically redistributing the font  Most licenses for commercial fonts do forbid redistribution  so please make sure you re acting according to the license

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Look up ATSApplicationFontsPath  A simple plist entry that allows you to include the font file s  in your app resources folder and they  just work  in your app

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Yes  you can include custom fonts  Refer to the documentation on UIFont  specifically  the fontWithName size  method   1  Make sure you include the font in your resources folder   2  The  name  of the font is not necessarily the filename   3  Make sure you have the legal right to use that font  By including it in your app  you re also distributing it  and you need to have the right to do that

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Here s the step by step instructions how to do it  No need extra library or any special coding    http   shang-liang com blog custom-fonts-in-ios4   Most of the time the issue is with the font not the method  The best way to do it is to use a font that for sure will work  like verdana or geogia  Then change to the intended font  If it does not work  maybe the font name is not right  or the font is not a well formated font

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One important notice  You should use the  PostScript name  associated with the font  not its Full name or Family name  This name can often be different from the normal name of the font

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As an enhancement  bdev s answer  here is an updated version for listing out custom fonts only   Step 1  Find out all system fonts using  bdev s answer  amp  save to file   Put the following code in first View Controller s - void viewDidLoad  after  super viewDidLoad   or in App Delegate    NSArray  paths   NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains NSDocumentDirectory                                                       NSUserDomainMask  YES   NSMutableArray  system fonts    NSMutableArray array   for  NSString  familyName in  UIFont familyNames         for  NSString  fontName in  UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName familyName              system fonts addObject fontName           if  paths count   gt  0         system fonts writeToFile   paths objectAtIndex 0                                 stringByAppendingPathComponent   array out   atomically YES       Run the App once  Stop it afterwards   Step 2  Add custom font to project  Using the method shown in the accepted answer  add your custom fonts   remember to update the  plist and add the font files to build by checking Add To Target   Step 3  Compare the system fonts with current font list  Replace the codes in Step 1 to   NSArray  paths   NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains NSDocumentDirectory                                                       NSUserDomainMask  YES   NSMutableArray  system fonts    NSMutableArray arrayWithContentsOfFile   paths objectAtIndex 0                                                                          stringByAppendingPathComponent   array out      for  NSString  familyName in  UIFont familyNames         for  NSString  fontName in  UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName familyName             if    system fonts containsObject fontName                 NSLog        fontName                       Run the App and the list of custom fonts you added will be shown   This applies to iOS 3 2 till iOS 6   future releases are probably working fine    Works with  ttc and  ttf as well

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Maybe the author forgot to give the font a Mac FOND name    Open the font in FontForge then go to Element Font Info There is a  Mac  Option where you can set the FOND name  Under File Export Font you can create a new ttf   You could also give the  Apple  option in the export dialog a try   DISCLAIMER  I m not a IPhone developer

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Look up ATSApplicationFontsPath  A simple plist entry that allows you to include the font file s  in your app resources folder and they  just work  in your app

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Yes  you can include custom fonts  Refer to the documentation on UIFont  specifically  the fontWithName size  method   1  Make sure you include the font in your resources folder   2  The  name  of the font is not necessarily the filename   3  Make sure you have the legal right to use that font  By including it in your app  you re also distributing it  and you need to have the right to do that

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yes you can use custom font in your application  step by step following there    Add your custom font files into your project in supporting files Add a key to your Info plist file called UIAppFonts  Make this key an array For each font you have  enter the full name of your font file  including the extension  as items to the UIAppFonts array Save Info plist Now in your application you can simply call  UIFont fontWithName   your Custom font Name  size 20  to get the custom font to use with your UILabels    after applying this if your not getting correct font   then you double click on the  custom font   and see carefully top side font name is comming and copy this font   paste  here  UIFont fontWithName    here  past your Custom font Name  size 20   i hope you will get correct answer

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Find the TTF in finder and  Get Info   Under the heading  Full name   it gave me a name which I then used with fontWithName  I just copied and pasted the exact name  in this case no   ttf  extension was necessary

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yes you can use custom font in your application  step by step following there    Add your custom font files into your project in supporting files Add a key to your Info plist file called UIAppFonts  Make this key an array For each font you have  enter the full name of your font file  including the extension  as items to the UIAppFonts array Save Info plist Now in your application you can simply call  UIFont fontWithName   your Custom font Name  size 20  to get the custom font to use with your UILabels    after applying this if your not getting correct font   then you double click on the  custom font   and see carefully top side font name is comming and copy this font   paste  here  UIFont fontWithName    here  past your Custom font Name  size 20   i hope you will get correct answer

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iOS 3 2 and later support this  Straight from the What s New in iPhone OS 3 2 doc      Custom Font Support   Applications that want to use custom fonts can now include those fonts in their application bundle and register those fonts with the system by including the UIAppFonts key in their Info plist file  The value of this key is an array of strings identifying the font files in the application   s bundle  When the system sees the key  it loads the specified fonts and makes them available to the application    Once the fonts have been set in the Info plist  you can use your custom fonts as any other font in IB or programatically   There is an ongoing thread on Apple Developer Forums   https   devforums apple com thread 37824  login required   And here s an excellent and simple 3 steps tutorial on how to achieve this  broken link removed    Add your custom font files into your project using Xcode as a resource Add a key to your Info plist file called UIAppFonts  Make this key an array For each font you have  enter the full name of your font file  including the extension  as items to the UIAppFonts array Save Info plist Now in your application you can simply call  UIFont fontWithName   CustomFontName  size 12  to get the custom font to use with your UILabels and UITextViews  etc      Also  Make sure the fonts are in your Copy Bundle Resources

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There is a new way to use custom fonts  starting with iOS 4 1  It allows you to load fonts dynamically  be they from files included with the app  downloaded data  or what have you  It also lets you load fonts as you need them  whereas the old method loads them all at app startup time  which can take too long if you have many fonts   The new method is described at ios-dynamic-font-loading  You use the CTFontManagerRegisterGraphicsFont function  giving it a buffer with your font data  It s then available to UIFont and web views  just as with the old method  Here s the sample code from that link   NSData  inData      your font-file data     CFErrorRef error  CGDataProviderRef provider   CGDataProviderCreateWithCFData  CFDataRef inData   CGFontRef font   CGFontCreateWithDataProvider provider   if    CTFontManagerRegisterGraphicsFont font   amp error         CFStringRef errorDescription   CFErrorCopyDescription error      NSLog   Failed to load font       errorDescription       CFRelease errorDescription     CFRelease font   CFRelease provider

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I have done this like this   Load the font   -  void loadFont       Get the path to our custom font and create a data provider    NSString  fontPath     NSBundle mainBundle  pathForResource   mycustomfont  ofType   ttf       CGDataProviderRef fontDataProvider   CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename  fontPath UTF8String          Create the font with the data provider  then release the data provider    customFont   CGFontCreateWithDataProvider fontDataProvider     CGDataProviderRelease fontDataProvider        Now  in your drawRect   do something like this   - void drawRect  CGRect rect       super drawRect rect          Get the context      CGContextRef context   UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext        CGContextClearRect context  rect          Set the customFont to be the font used to draw      CGContextSetFont context  customFont           Set how the context draws the font  what color  how big      CGContextSetTextDrawingMode context  kCGTextFillStroke       CGContextSetFillColorWithColor context  self fontColor CGColor       UIColor   strokeColor    UIColor blackColor       CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor context  strokeColor CGColor       CGContextSetFontSize context  48 0f           Create an array of Glyph s the size of text that will be drawn      CGGlyph textToPrint  self theText length            Loop through the entire length of the text      for  int i   0  i  lt   self theText length     i               Store each letter in a Glyph and subtract the MagicNumber to get appropriate value          textToPrint i      self theText uppercaseString  characterAtIndex i    3 - 32            CGAffineTransform textTransform   CGAffineTransformMake 1 0  0 0  0 0  -1 0  0 0  0 0       CGContextSetTextMatrix context  textTransform       CGContextShowGlyphsAtPoint context  20  50  textToPrint   self theText length        Basically you have to do some brute force looping through the text and futzing about with the magic number to find your offset  here  see me using 29  in the font  but it works   Also  you have to make sure the font is legally embeddable  Most aren t and there are lawyers who specialize in this sort of thing  so be warned

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I ve combined some of the advice on this page into something that works for me on iOS 5   First  you have to add the custom font to your project  Then  you need to follow the advice of  iPhoneDev and add the font to your info plist file   After you do that  this works   UIFont  yourCustomFont    UIFont fontWithName   YOUR-CUSTOM-FONT-POSTSCRIPT-NAME  size 14 0    yourUILabel setFont yourCustomFont     However  you need to know the Postscript name of your font  Just follow  Daniel Wood s advice and press command-i while you re in FontBook   Then  enjoy your custom font

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Swift  code way   works also with swift 2 0   Add the required fonts to your project  just like adding images  just drag to Xcode   make sure that they are targeted to your project add this method and load custom fonts  recommended in appDelegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions   func loadFont filePath  String         let fontData   NSData contentsOfFile  filePath        let dataProvider   CGDataProviderCreateWithCFData fontData      let cgFont   CGFontCreateWithDataProvider dataProvider        var error  Unmanaged lt CFError gt       if  CTFontManagerRegisterGraphicsFont cgFont   amp error            let errorDescription  CFStringRef   CFErrorCopyDescription error  takeUnretainedValue            print  Unable to load font       errorDescription  terminator                 Use example   if let fontPath   NSBundle mainBundle   pathForResource  My-Font   ofType   ttf          loadFont fontPath      Use the font   UIFont name   My-Font   size  16 5

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With iOS 8  and Xcode 6  you can make this easily  Here are the steps   1  Drag and drop your font to Xcode Supporting Files folder  Don t forget to mark your app at Add to targets section  From this moment you can use this font in IB and choose it from font pallet     2  To make this font available to in your device  open your info plist and add Fonts provided by application key  It will contain Item 0 key  you must add your font name as the value  Font name can vary from your font file name  But first  try to add your filename  in most cases this work      If not  this article always helped me   Here is swift snippet of the code from this article to help you find your font name   func allFonts        for family in UIFont familyNames            println family           for name in UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName family description                      println      name                        EDIT  I want to mention  that you need to add font files to your Target s Build Phases  Copy Bundle Resources  Without it  you won t see your font on the device  And it could lead to unexpected behaviour    For example  I encounter a bug  when UITextField have custom font  but this font wasn t in the Copy Bundle Resources  And when I segue to the viewcontroller with this textfield  there is a delay about 4 seconds before viewDidLoad function was called  Resolving font troubles removed this delay  So  recommend to check it twice   rdar   20028250  Btw  I wasn t able to reproduce the bug  but I m sure that problem was with the font

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I have been trying out the various suggestions on this page on iOS 3 1 2 and these are my conclusions   Simply using  UIFont fontWithName size   with the fonts in the Resources directory will not work  even if the FOND name is set using FontForge    UIFont fontWithName size   will work if the fonts are loaded first using GSFontAddFromFile  But GSFontAddFromFile is not part of iOS 3 1 2 so it has to be dynamically loaded as described by  rpetrich

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Here s the step by step instructions how to do it  No need extra library or any special coding    http   shang-liang com blog custom-fonts-in-ios4   Most of the time the issue is with the font not the method  The best way to do it is to use a font that for sure will work  like verdana or geogia  Then change to the intended font  If it does not work  maybe the font name is not right  or the font is not a well formated font

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One important notice  You should use the  PostScript name  associated with the font  not its Full name or Family name  This name can often be different from the normal name of the font

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follow this step  1 Copy your font in your project  2 open your  plist file in source code mode    Note- Dont open info plist   3 Before that - Right click on your font and open it in fontforge or similar editor and  install it in your system   It should be install  4 Type this    lt key gt UIAppFonts lt  key gt   lt array gt       lt string gt MyriadPro otf lt  string gt   lt  array gt    5 Type this code in your class  m    lblPoints setFont  UIFont fontWithName   Myriad Pro  size 15 0      Here lblPoints will be change as of your UILabel  Done   If still your font not work check your fonts compatibility first

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For iOS 3 2 and above  Use the methods provided by several above  which are    Add your font file  for example  Chalkduster ttf  to Resources folder of the project in XCode  Open info plist and add a new key called UIAppFonts  The type of this key should be array  Add your custom font name to this array including extension   Chalkduster ttf    Use  UIFont fontWithName   Real Font Name  size 16  in your application    BUT The  Real Font Name  is not always the one you see in Fontbook  The best way is to ask your device which fonts it sees and what the exact names are   I use the uifont-name-grabber posted at  uifont-name-grabber  Just drop the fonts you want into the xcode project  add the file name to its plist  and run it on the device you are building for  it will email you a complete font list using the names that UIFont fontWithName  expects

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First add the font in  odt format to your resources  in this case we will use DINEngschriftStd otf  then use this code to assign the font to the label   theUILabel setFont  UIFont fontWithName   DINEngschriftStd  size 21      To make sure your font is loaded on the project just call  NSLog   Available Font Families        UIFont familyNames      On the  plist you must declare the font  Just add a  Fonts provided by application  record and add a item 0 string with the name of the font  DINEngschriftStd otf

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There is a new way to use custom fonts  starting with iOS 4 1  It allows you to load fonts dynamically  be they from files included with the app  downloaded data  or what have you  It also lets you load fonts as you need them  whereas the old method loads them all at app startup time  which can take too long if you have many fonts   The new method is described at ios-dynamic-font-loading  You use the CTFontManagerRegisterGraphicsFont function  giving it a buffer with your font data  It s then available to UIFont and web views  just as with the old method  Here s the sample code from that link   NSData  inData      your font-file data     CFErrorRef error  CGDataProviderRef provider   CGDataProviderCreateWithCFData  CFDataRef inData   CGFontRef font   CGFontCreateWithDataProvider provider   if    CTFontManagerRegisterGraphicsFont font   amp error         CFStringRef errorDescription   CFErrorCopyDescription error      NSLog   Failed to load font       errorDescription       CFRelease errorDescription     CFRelease font   CFRelease provider

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Edit  As of iOS 3 2  this functionality is built in  If you need to support pre-3 2  you can still use this solution   I created a simple module that extends UILabel and handles loading  ttf files   I released it opensource under the Apache license and put it on github Here    The important files are FontLabel h and FontLabel m   It uses some of the code from Genericrich s answer   Browse the source Here   OR   Copy your font file into resources Add a key to your Info plist file called UIAppFonts    Fonts provided by application  Make this key an array  For each font you have  enter the full name of your font file  including the extension  as items to the UIAppFonts array  Save Info plist Now in your application you can simply call  UIFont fontWithName   CustomFontName  size 15  to get the custom font to use with your UILabels and UITextViews  etc      For More Information

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Better solution is to add a new property  Fonts provided by application  to your info plist file    Then  you can use your custom font like normal UIFont

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I have done this like this   Load the font   -  void loadFont       Get the path to our custom font and create a data provider    NSString  fontPath     NSBundle mainBundle  pathForResource   mycustomfont  ofType   ttf       CGDataProviderRef fontDataProvider   CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename  fontPath UTF8String          Create the font with the data provider  then release the data provider    customFont   CGFontCreateWithDataProvider fontDataProvider     CGDataProviderRelease fontDataProvider        Now  in your drawRect   do something like this   - void drawRect  CGRect rect       super drawRect rect          Get the context      CGContextRef context   UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext        CGContextClearRect context  rect          Set the customFont to be the font used to draw      CGContextSetFont context  customFont           Set how the context draws the font  what color  how big      CGContextSetTextDrawingMode context  kCGTextFillStroke       CGContextSetFillColorWithColor context  self fontColor CGColor       UIColor   strokeColor    UIColor blackColor       CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor context  strokeColor CGColor       CGContextSetFontSize context  48 0f           Create an array of Glyph s the size of text that will be drawn      CGGlyph textToPrint  self theText length            Loop through the entire length of the text      for  int i   0  i  lt   self theText length     i               Store each letter in a Glyph and subtract the MagicNumber to get appropriate value          textToPrint i      self theText uppercaseString  characterAtIndex i    3 - 32            CGAffineTransform textTransform   CGAffineTransformMake 1 0  0 0  0 0  -1 0  0 0  0 0       CGContextSetTextMatrix context  textTransform       CGContextShowGlyphsAtPoint context  20  50  textToPrint   self theText length        Basically you have to do some brute force looping through the text and futzing about with the magic number to find your offset  here  see me using 29  in the font  but it works   Also  you have to make sure the font is legally embeddable  Most aren t and there are lawyers who specialize in this sort of thing  so be warned

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For iOS 3 2 and above  Use the methods provided by several above  which are    Add your font file  for example  Chalkduster ttf  to Resources folder of the project in XCode  Open info plist and add a new key called UIAppFonts  The type of this key should be array  Add your custom font name to this array including extension   Chalkduster ttf    Use  UIFont fontWithName   Real Font Name  size 16  in your application    BUT The  Real Font Name  is not always the one you see in Fontbook  The best way is to ask your device which fonts it sees and what the exact names are   I use the uifont-name-grabber posted at  uifont-name-grabber  Just drop the fonts you want into the xcode project  add the file name to its plist  and run it on the device you are building for  it will email you a complete font list using the names that UIFont fontWithName  expects

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I made everything possible but the new fonts dont appear so I found the solution   When you drag the fot files otf or ttf  DONT forget to check the checkbox under  Add to targets    After doing that your font will appear and everything will work fine

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I ve combined some of the advice on this page into something that works for me on iOS 5   First  you have to add the custom font to your project  Then  you need to follow the advice of  iPhoneDev and add the font to your info plist file   After you do that  this works   UIFont  yourCustomFont    UIFont fontWithName   YOUR-CUSTOM-FONT-POSTSCRIPT-NAME  size 14 0    yourUILabel setFont yourCustomFont     However  you need to know the Postscript name of your font  Just follow  Daniel Wood s advice and press command-i while you re in FontBook   Then  enjoy your custom font

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As all the previous answers indicated  it s very well possible  and pretty easy in newer iOS versions   I know this is not a technical answer  but since a lot of people do make it wrong  thus effectively violating licenses which may cost you a lot of money if you re being sued   let me strengthen one caveat here  Embedding a custom font in an iOS  or any other kind  app is basically redistributing the font  Most licenses for commercial fonts do forbid redistribution  so please make sure you re acting according to the license

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In Info plist add the entry  Fonts provided by application  and include the font names as strings   Fonts provided by application            Item 0        myfontname ttf            Item 1        myfontname-bold ttf                  Then check to make sure your font is included by running    for  NSString  familyName in  UIFont familyNames         for  NSString  fontName in  UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName familyName              NSLog        fontName             Note that your ttf file name might not be the same name that you use when you set the font for your label  you can use the code above to get the  fontWithName  parameter     label setFont  UIFont fontWithName   MyFontName-Regular  size 18

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It is very easy to add a new font on your existing iOS App   You just need to add the font e g  font ttf into your Resource Folder   Open your application info plist  Add a new row as  Fonts provided by application  and type the font name as font ttf   And when setting the font do as setFont  corresponding Font Name   You can check whether your font is added or not by NSArray  check    UIFont familyNames     It returns all the font your application support

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It is very easy to add a new font on your existing iOS App   You just need to add the font e g  font ttf into your Resource Folder   Open your application info plist  Add a new row as  Fonts provided by application  and type the font name as font ttf   And when setting the font do as setFont  corresponding Font Name   You can check whether your font is added or not by NSArray  check    UIFont familyNames     It returns all the font your application support

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yes you can use custom font in your application  step by step following there   Add your custom font files into your project in supporting files  Add a key to your Info plist file called UIAppFonts   Make this key an array  For each font you have  enter the full name of your font file  including the extension  as items to the UIAppFonts array  Save Info plist Now in your application you can simply call  UIFont fontWithName   your Custom font Name  size 20  to get the custom font to use with your UILabels after applying this if your not getting correct font then you double click on the custom font   and see carefully top side font name is comming and copy this font   paste  here  UIFont fontWithName    here past your Custom font Name  size 20    i hope you will get correct answer

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Swift  code way   works also with swift 2 0   Add the required fonts to your project  just like adding images  just drag to Xcode   make sure that they are targeted to your project add this method and load custom fonts  recommended in appDelegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions   func loadFont filePath  String         let fontData   NSData contentsOfFile  filePath        let dataProvider   CGDataProviderCreateWithCFData fontData      let cgFont   CGFontCreateWithDataProvider dataProvider        var error  Unmanaged lt CFError gt       if  CTFontManagerRegisterGraphicsFont cgFont   amp error            let errorDescription  CFStringRef   CFErrorCopyDescription error  takeUnretainedValue            print  Unable to load font       errorDescription  terminator                 Use example   if let fontPath   NSBundle mainBundle   pathForResource  My-Font   ofType   ttf          loadFont fontPath      Use the font   UIFont name   My-Font   size  16 5

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If you are using xcode 4 3  you have to add the font to the Build Phase under Copy Bundle Resources  according to https   stackoverflow com users 1292829 arne in the thread  Custom Fonts Xcode 4 3  This worked for me  here are the steps I took for custom fonts to work in my app    Add the font to your project  I dragged and dropped the OTF  or TTF  files to a new group I created and accepted xcode s choice of copying the files over to the project folder  Create the UIAppFonts array with your fonts listed as items within the array  Just the names  not the extension  e g   GothamBold    GothamBold-Italic    Click on the project name way at the top of the Project Navigator on the left side of the screen  Click on the Build Phases tab that appears in the main area of xcode  Expand the  Copy Bundle Resources  section and click on     to add the font  Select the font file from the file navigator that pops open when you click on the      Do this for every font you have to add to the project

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In Info plist add the entry  Fonts provided by application  and include the font names as strings   Fonts provided by application            Item 0        myfontname ttf            Item 1        myfontname-bold ttf                  Then check to make sure your font is included by running    for  NSString  familyName in  UIFont familyNames         for  NSString  fontName in  UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName familyName              NSLog        fontName             Note that your ttf file name might not be the same name that you use when you set the font for your label  you can use the code above to get the  fontWithName  parameter     label setFont  UIFont fontWithName   MyFontName-Regular  size 18

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iOS 3 2 and later support this  Straight from the What s New in iPhone OS 3 2 doc      Custom Font Support   Applications that want to use custom fonts can now include those fonts in their application bundle and register those fonts with the system by including the UIAppFonts key in their Info plist file  The value of this key is an array of strings identifying the font files in the application   s bundle  When the system sees the key  it loads the specified fonts and makes them available to the application    Once the fonts have been set in the Info plist  you can use your custom fonts as any other font in IB or programatically   There is an ongoing thread on Apple Developer Forums   https   devforums apple com thread 37824  login required   And here s an excellent and simple 3 steps tutorial on how to achieve this  broken link removed    Add your custom font files into your project using Xcode as a resource Add a key to your Info plist file called UIAppFonts  Make this key an array For each font you have  enter the full name of your font file  including the extension  as items to the UIAppFonts array Save Info plist Now in your application you can simply call  UIFont fontWithName   CustomFontName  size 12  to get the custom font to use with your UILabels and UITextViews  etc      Also  Make sure the fonts are in your Copy Bundle Resources

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Find the TTF in finder and  Get Info   Under the heading  Full name   it gave me a name which I then used with fontWithName  I just copied and pasted the exact name  in this case no   ttf  extension was necessary

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With iOS 8  and Xcode 6  you can make this easily  Here are the steps   1  Drag and drop your font to Xcode Supporting Files folder  Don t forget to mark your app at Add to targets section  From this moment you can use this font in IB and choose it from font pallet     2  To make this font available to in your device  open your info plist and add Fonts provided by application key  It will contain Item 0 key  you must add your font name as the value  Font name can vary from your font file name  But first  try to add your filename  in most cases this work      If not  this article always helped me   Here is swift snippet of the code from this article to help you find your font name   func allFonts        for family in UIFont familyNames            println family           for name in UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName family description                      println      name                        EDIT  I want to mention  that you need to add font files to your Target s Build Phases  Copy Bundle Resources  Without it  you won t see your font on the device  And it could lead to unexpected behaviour    For example  I encounter a bug  when UITextField have custom font  but this font wasn t in the Copy Bundle Resources  And when I segue to the viewcontroller with this textfield  there is a delay about 4 seconds before viewDidLoad function was called  Resolving font troubles removed this delay  So  recommend to check it twice   rdar   20028250  Btw  I wasn t able to reproduce the bug  but I m sure that problem was with the font

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follow this step  1 Copy your font in your project  2 open your  plist file in source code mode    Note- Dont open info plist   3 Before that - Right click on your font and open it in fontforge or similar editor and  install it in your system   It should be install  4 Type this    lt key gt UIAppFonts lt  key gt   lt array gt       lt string gt MyriadPro otf lt  string gt   lt  array gt    5 Type this code in your class  m    lblPoints setFont  UIFont fontWithName   Myriad Pro  size 15 0      Here lblPoints will be change as of your UILabel  Done   If still your font not work check your fonts compatibility first

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There is a simple way to use custom fonts in iOS 4    Add your font file  for example  Chalkduster ttf  to Resources folder of the project in XCode  Open info plist and add a new key called UIAppFonts  The type of this key should be array  Add your custom font name to this array including extension  Chalkduster ttf   Now you can use  UIFont fontWithName   Chalkduster  size 16  in your application    Unfortunately  IB doesn t allow to initialize labels with custom fonts  See this question to solve this problem  My favorite solution is to use custom UILabel subclass    implementation CustomFontLabel  -  id initWithCoder  NSCoder   decoder       if  self    super initWithCoder  decoder                  self setFont   UIFont fontWithName    Chalkduster  size  self font pointSize              return self      end

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I have been trying out the various suggestions on this page on iOS 3 1 2 and these are my conclusions   Simply using  UIFont fontWithName size   with the fonts in the Resources directory will not work  even if the FOND name is set using FontForge    UIFont fontWithName size   will work if the fonts are loaded first using GSFontAddFromFile  But GSFontAddFromFile is not part of iOS 3 1 2 so it has to be dynamically loaded as described by  rpetrich

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I made everything possible but the new fonts dont appear so I found the solution   When you drag the fot files otf or ttf  DONT forget to check the checkbox under  Add to targets    After doing that your font will appear and everything will work fine

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edit  This answer is defunct as of iOS3 2  use UIAppFonts  The only way I ve been able to successfully load custom UIFonts is via the private GraphicsServices framework   The following will load all the  ttf fonts in the application s main bundle   BOOL GSFontAddFromFile const char   path   NSUInteger loadFonts         NSUInteger newFontCount   0      for  NSString  fontFile in   NSBundle mainBundle  pathsForResourcesOfType   ttf  inDirectory nil           newFontCount    GSFontAddFromFile  fontFile UTF8String        return newFontCount      Once fonts are loaded  they can be used just like the Apple-provided fonts   NSLog   Available Font Families        UIFont familyNames     label setFont  UIFont fontWithName   Consolas  size 20 0f      GraphicsServices can even be loaded at runtime in case the API disappears in the future    import  lt dlfcn h gt  NSUInteger loadFonts         NSUInteger newFontCount   0      NSBundle  frameworkBundle    NSBundle bundleWithIdentifier   com apple GraphicsServices        const char  frameworkPath     frameworkBundle executablePath  UTF8String       if  frameworkPath            void  graphicsServices   dlopen frameworkPath  RTLD NOLOAD   RTLD LAZY           if  graphicsServices                BOOL   GSFontAddFromFile  const char      dlsym graphicsServices   GSFontAddFromFile                if  GSFontAddFromFile                  for  NSString  fontFile in   NSBundle mainBundle  pathsForResourcesOfType   ttf  inDirectory nil                       newFontCount    GSFontAddFromFile  fontFile UTF8String                        return newFontCount

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Yes  you can include custom fonts  Refer to the documentation on UIFont  specifically  the fontWithName size  method   1  Make sure you include the font in your resources folder   2  The  name  of the font is not necessarily the filename   3  Make sure you have the legal right to use that font  By including it in your app  you re also distributing it  and you need to have the right to do that

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edit  This answer is defunct as of iOS3 2  use UIAppFonts  The only way I ve been able to successfully load custom UIFonts is via the private GraphicsServices framework   The following will load all the  ttf fonts in the application s main bundle   BOOL GSFontAddFromFile const char   path   NSUInteger loadFonts         NSUInteger newFontCount   0      for  NSString  fontFile in   NSBundle mainBundle  pathsForResourcesOfType   ttf  inDirectory nil           newFontCount    GSFontAddFromFile  fontFile UTF8String        return newFontCount      Once fonts are loaded  they can be used just like the Apple-provided fonts   NSLog   Available Font Families        UIFont familyNames     label setFont  UIFont fontWithName   Consolas  size 20 0f      GraphicsServices can even be loaded at runtime in case the API disappears in the future    import  lt dlfcn h gt  NSUInteger loadFonts         NSUInteger newFontCount   0      NSBundle  frameworkBundle    NSBundle bundleWithIdentifier   com apple GraphicsServices        const char  frameworkPath     frameworkBundle executablePath  UTF8String       if  frameworkPath            void  graphicsServices   dlopen frameworkPath  RTLD NOLOAD   RTLD LAZY           if  graphicsServices                BOOL   GSFontAddFromFile  const char      dlsym graphicsServices   GSFontAddFromFile                if  GSFontAddFromFile                  for  NSString  fontFile in   NSBundle mainBundle  pathsForResourcesOfType   ttf  inDirectory nil                       newFontCount    GSFontAddFromFile  fontFile UTF8String                        return newFontCount

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Maybe the author forgot to give the font a Mac FOND name    Open the font in FontForge then go to Element Font Info There is a  Mac  Option where you can set the FOND name  Under File Export Font you can create a new ttf   You could also give the  Apple  option in the export dialog a try   DISCLAIMER  I m not a IPhone developer

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First add the font in  odt format to your resources  in this case we will use DINEngschriftStd otf  then use this code to assign the font to the label   theUILabel setFont  UIFont fontWithName   DINEngschriftStd  size 21      To make sure your font is loaded on the project just call  NSLog   Available Font Families        UIFont familyNames      On the  plist you must declare the font  Just add a  Fonts provided by application  record and add a item 0 string with the name of the font  DINEngschriftStd otf

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Although some of the answers above are correct, I have written a detailed visual tutorial for people still having problems with fonts.

The solutions above which tell you to add the font to the plist and use

[self.labelOutlet setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Sathu" size:10]];

are the correct ones. Please do now use any other hackish way. If you are still facing problems with finding font names and adding them, here is the tutorial -

Using custom fonts in ios application

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There is a simple way to use custom fonts in iOS 4    Add your font file  for example  Chalkduster ttf  to Resources folder of the project in XCode  Open info plist and add a new key called UIAppFonts  The type of this key should be array  Add your custom font name to this array including extension  Chalkduster ttf   Now you can use  UIFont fontWithName   Chalkduster  size 16  in your application    Unfortunately  IB doesn t allow to initialize labels with custom fonts  See this question to solve this problem  My favorite solution is to use custom UILabel subclass    implementation CustomFontLabel  -  id initWithCoder  NSCoder   decoder       if  self    super initWithCoder  decoder                  self setFont   UIFont fontWithName    Chalkduster  size  self font pointSize              return self      end

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Yes  you can include custom fonts  Refer to the documentation on UIFont  specifically  the fontWithName size  method   1  Make sure you include the font in your resources folder   2  The  name  of the font is not necessarily the filename   3  Make sure you have the legal right to use that font  By including it in your app  you re also distributing it  and you need to have the right to do that

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yes you can use custom font in your application  step by step following there   Add your custom font files into your project in supporting files  Add a key to your Info plist file called UIAppFonts   Make this key an array  For each font you have  enter the full name of your font file  including the extension  as items to the UIAppFonts array  Save Info plist Now in your application you can simply call  UIFont fontWithName   your Custom font Name  size 20  to get the custom font to use with your UILabels after applying this if your not getting correct font then you double click on the custom font   and see carefully top side font name is comming and copy this font   paste  here  UIFont fontWithName    here past your Custom font Name  size 20    i hope you will get correct answer

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I would recommend following one of my favorite short tutorials here  http   codewithchris com common-mistakes-with-adding-custom-fonts-to-your-ios-app  from which this information comes   Step 1 - Drag your  ttf or  otf from Finder into your Project  NOTE - Make sure to click the box to  Add to targets  on your main application target    If you forgot to click to add it to your target then click on the font file in your project hierarchy and on the right side panel click the main app target in the Target Membership section    To make sure your fonts are part of your app target make sure they show up in your Copy Bundle Resources in Build Phases    Step 2 - Add the font file names to your Plist  Go to the Custom iOS Target Properties in your Info Section and add a key to the items in that section called Fonts provided by application  you should see it come up as an option as you type it and it will set itself up as an array  Click the little arrow to open up the array items and type in the names of the  ttf or  otf files that you added to let your app know that these are the font files you want available  NOTE - If your app crashes right after this step then check your spelling on the items you add here    Step 3 - Find out the names of your fonts so you can call them  Quite often the font name seen by your application is different from what you think it is based on the filename for that font  put this in your code and look over the log your application makes to see what font name to call in your code  Swift  for family  String in UIFont familyNames      print    family      for names  String in UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName family         print       names            Objective C  for  NSString  family in  UIFont familyNames        NSLog        family       for  NSString  name in  UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName  family            NSLog          name             Your log should look something like this     Step 4 - Use your new custom font using the name from Step 3  Swift   label font   UIFont name   SourceSansPro-Regular   size  18    Objective C   label font    UIFont fontWithName   SourceSansPro-Regular  size 18

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