How to set font name of UILabel as HelveticaNeue Thin in iOS?

Question

I am creating UILabel, for the label i can set the font name as HelveticaNeue Regular, Light, UltraLight etc, But i unable to set the font name as HelveticaNeue Thin, it is not working as expected. I did like,

label.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Thin" size:16];

Also i have searched on Google didnt got any solution. How to fix this issue? Thanks.

You have to add the font to your project if you are using a custom Font — Himanshu Joshi, Feb 28 '14 at 09:41
@HimanshuJoshi Helvetica Neue Thin is already bundled in iOS (7, at least). — Alessandro Vendruscolo, Feb 28 '14 at 09:44
please check this :- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19527962/what-happened-to-helveticaneue-italic-on-ios-7-0-3 — Nitin Gohel, Feb 28 '14 at 09:48
May be you can find your answer here here http://stackoverflow.com/a/19697354/1790571 — Himanshu Joshi, Feb 28 '14 at 09:51

score 26 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '14 at 10:56

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This font is bundled with iOS 7, so if you're targeting iOS 7 and above your

label.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Thin" size:16.0f];

will work.

However if you are targeting iOS 6.1 and below you'll need to embed the font

answered Feb 28 '14 at 10:56

ncremins

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It crashes the application – Paresh. P Aug 12 '21 at 10:06

score 19 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 29 '15 at 18:28

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Updated answer to support swift

    let font = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-Thin", size: 16.0)!

answered Apr 29 '15 at 18:28

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score 3 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

UIFontDescriptor *helveticaNeueFamily =
    [UIFontDescriptor fontDescriptorWithFontAttributes:
        @{ UIFontDescriptorFamilyAttribute: @"Helvetica Neue" }];
NSArray *matches =
    [helveticaNeueFamily matchingFontDescriptorsWithMandatoryKeys: nil];

The matchingFontDescriptorsWithMandatoryKeys: method as shown returns an array of font descriptors for all the Helvetica Neue fonts on the system, such as HelveticaNeue, HelveticaNeue-Medium, HelveticaNeue-Light, HelveticaNeue-Thin, and so on.

You can modify the fonts returned by preferredFontForTextStyle: by applying symbolic traits, such as bold, italic, expanded, and condensed. You can use font descriptors to modify particular traits, as shown in Listing 9-2.

referenced by apple

or

this font you can't apply directly.

so you can customize your font

How to use custom fonts in iPhone SDK?

aashish tamsya · Answer 4 · 2015-06-16T12:30:38.620

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This has worked for me. Write this code below your label declarations.

It sets all the UILabel under a function with same font.

[[UILabel appearance]setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Thin" size:32.0f]];

To set font to particular UILabel use this code :

[labelName setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Thin" size:15.0f]];

edited Jun 16 '15 at 12:30

answered Jun 16 '15 at 12:01

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This does seem to work for me too, however googling suggests that it shouldn't work, confused. – Jules Jun 20 '15 at 19:14

How to set font name of UILabel as HelveticaNeue Thin in iOS?

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