Importing external fonts to iPhone application

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How can I import external arabic and english fonts to my iPhone application ?

Do you mean use custom fonts in iOS app? – Toseef Khilji Mar 10 '14 at 09:49 — Toseef Khilji, Mar 10 '14 at 09:49
you want to add font on xCode, right? – Nirmalsinh Rathod Mar 10 '14 at 09:50 — Nirmalsinh Rathod, Mar 10 '14 at 09:50

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 10 '14 at 12:16

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For importing Custom fonts in your iOS app

Add .TTF or .OTF font that you downloaded in your application.
Modify the plist file i.e. application-info.plist file.
Add the key "Fonts provided by application" in a new row.
and add each .TTF or .OTF file (of font) to each line.

Info.plist Screen Shot

and then in your label or textfield

yourLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"YOUR_FONT" size:15];

edited Mar 10 '14 at 12:16

fabian789

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answered Mar 10 '14 at 09:52

Himanshu Joshi

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 09:52

Add font file in your xcode project.Then add fontfile name in .plist file in "Fonts provided by application"

You can get all the font names with this

  NSArray *familyNames = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:[UIFont familyNames]];
    NSArray *fontNames;
    NSInteger indFamily, indFont;
    for (indFamily=0; indFamily<[familyNames count]; ++indFamily)
    {
        NSLog(@"Family name: %@", [familyNames objectAtIndex:indFamily]);
        fontNames = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:
                     [UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName:
                      [familyNames objectAtIndex:indFamily]]];
        for (indFont=0; indFont<[fontNames count]; ++indFont)
        {
            NSLog(@"Font name: %@", [fontNames objectAtIndex:indFont]);
        }

    }

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 10:05

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You have to introduce the font names in the info.plist file. You have to write font names like image below

Then you have to use a Global class which is a NSOBject type.

In Globals.h file write

 @interface Globals : NSObject 


{

}

#define         SegoeRegular14         [UIFont fontWithName:@"Segoe UI" size:14];

Now you can use the font anywhere you want

_titleLabel.font = SegoeRegular14;

I hope it will do for you. All the best .

answered Mar 10 '14 at 10:05

Mahboob Nur

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It would be much nicer to do a [category](https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/CustomizingExistingClasses/CustomizingExistingClasses.html) on `UIFont` and then be able to do `[UIFont sogoeRegularWithSize:14]`. – fabian789 Mar 10 '14 at 12:18
SeguiRegular font is not available in the X-Code system font. So in order to add new font its better to implement like this. – Mahboob Nur Mar 10 '14 at 12:51
Yes but you could use a category to make the use of the font nicer: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9464542 – fabian789 Mar 10 '14 at 12:54

Importing external fonts to iPhone application

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