UIFont API to simplify font style modification?

Question

I search an API to simplify the iphone font style modification (bold,italic,boldItalic etc) in an UILabel. Anybody have an idea?

I mean for example instead of : UIFont *font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica" withSize:25]; do : UIFont *font = [UIfont fontWithfamily:family style:Bold size:size]; — Jonathan, Jul 09 '12 at 09:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

As far as I know, you can't do that with a UIFont using public methods.

There's a private method that does it, but of course you couldn't use that in an App Store app:

+(UIFont*)fontWithFamilyName:(NSString*)familyName traits:(GSFontTraitMask)traits size:(CGFloat)fontSize;

If you were using Core Text, you could create the font as a CTFontRef, then use CTFontDescriptorCreateCopyWithAttributes() with kCTFontTraitsAttribute set to kCTFontBoldTrait or kCTFontItalicTrait etc, which would get you a bold or italic version of the font you first created. Then I suppose you could do something like this to convert it into a UIFont. It's a bit of a cumbersome solution though.

Thanks you for you help, i'm going to try this ! – Jonathan Jul 09 '12 at 13:43 — Jonathan, Jul 09 '12 at 13:43

UIFont API to simplify font style modification?

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