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iOS

Posted by Louis Panagopoulos
Louis Panagopoulos
1,104 Points

iOS Fonts

How do we change the font of the text displayed in the crystal ball app?

4 Answers

Amit Bijlani
STAFF
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Amit Bijlani
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You can also change the font itself. iOS has a lot of system fonts you can check out on http://iosfonts.com/

Lets say you wanted to change the font to "Papyrus"

textLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Papyrus" size:12.0f];
Pavel Palancica
Pavel Palancica
6,535 Points
Pavel Palancica
Pavel Palancica
6,535 Points

Hey Louis,

To change the font of an UITextLabel object, use any of this 2 lines:

<pre> labelName.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:18.0f]; labelName.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:18.0f]; </pre>

Hope it helps you :)

Louis Panagopoulos
Louis Panagopoulos
1,104 Points
Louis Panagopoulos
Louis Panagopoulos
1,104 Points

Amit, Pavel;

Where does this code go? Is it in the .h or .m file?

Regards,

Pavel Palancica
Pavel Palancica
6,535 Points
Pavel Palancica
Pavel Palancica
6,535 Points

Hey Louis,

Perhaps you are new to programming. Most of the logic/code goes in the .m file, usually inside a method, in your case you can do it in - (void)viewDidLoad { }.

Also you can use custom fonts, see here how:

http://refactr.com/blog/2012/09/ios-tips-custom-fonts/

Hope it helped you :)