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iOS

Posted by Michael Trilford
Michael Trilford
7,232 Points

Line-height in iOS help

iOS doesn't seem to allow you to change the line-height too easily. Is there a preferred way to modify the leading in the code when developing for iOS?

Anyone have any tips with iOS typography? Help needed :)

Thanks in advance!

3 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

looking at this maybe you could use an attributed string. its the second answer on the page. ios6+ only

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

As Stone mentioned you should probably use attributed strings. Here's some code to set custom line height when using a UILablel.

    NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [[NSMutableParagraphStyle defaultParagraphStyle] mutableCopy];
    paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = 13;
    paragraphStyle.minimumLineHeight = 13;
    paragraphStyle.maximumLineHeight = 16;

    label.attributedText = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"some text"
                                                                attributes:
                                 @{NSParagraphStyleAttributeName : paragraphStyle}];
Michael Trilford
Michael Trilford
7,232 Points
Michael Trilford
Michael Trilford
7,232 Points

Thanks guys, I will give this a go!