Default font families

Default font families

Default font sizes

There are 4 font sizes that can be obtained using +[UIFont someSize]. The last 2 are conventional values.

Name	Value
smallSystemFontSize	12
systemFontSize	14
labelFontSize	17
buttonFontSize	18
Default font size of UIButton	15
Default font size of UITextField	12

+fontWithFamilyName:traits:size:

Signature	+(UIFont*)fontWithFamilyName:(NSString*)familyName traits:(GSFontTraitMask)traits size:(CGFloat)fontSize;
Available in	2.0 –

Returns a font with specific family name, traits (bold/italic) and font size. For example:

// Equivalent to [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial-BoldMT" size:24]
UIFont* font = [UIFont fontWithFamilyName:@"Arial" traits:GSBoldFontMask size:24];

+fontWithMarkupDescription:

Signature	+(UIFont*)fontWithMarkupDescription:(NSString*)markupDescription;
Available in	2.0 —

Create a font using a CSS font description, e.g.

// Equivalent to [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial-BoldMT" size:24]
UIFont* font = [UIFont fontWithMarkupDescription:@"font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"];

Unlike real CSS rules there are heavy restrictions on the "markup description":

• The font-family rule must be exact. A list of fonts like Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif will not be supported by UIKit, and will always return nil regardless whether any font in the list is available.
• The unit of font-size will always be interpreted as px. Names such as font-size: large will be considered as 0px.
• font-weight can only be bold or not.
• font-style can only be italic or not. In particular, oblique is not recognized and treated as normal.

-traits

Signature	-(GSFontTraitMask)traits;
Available in	2.0 –

Returns the traits (bold/italic) of the font.

-isFixedPitch

Signature	-(BOOL)isFixedPitch;
Available in	2.0 –

Returns whether the font is monospaced or not.

-markupDescription

Signature	-(NSString*)markupDescription;
Available in	2.0 –

Returns the CSS rules that can reproduce this font.

Default font families

Family	Normal	Bold	Italic	Bold-Italic	Example
American Typewriter	AmericanTypewriter	AmericanTypewriter-Bold			Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
AppleGothic	AppleGothic				Korean-한국어-韓國語
Arial	ArialMT	Arial-BoldMT	Arial-ItalicMT	Arial-BoldItalicMT	Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Arial Hebrew	ArialHebrew	ArialHebrew-Bold			Hebrew-עִבְרִית
Arial Rounded MT Bold	ArialRoundedMTBold				Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Arial Unicode MS	ArialUnicodeMS				Unicode-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Courier	Courier	Courier-Bold	Courier-Oblique	Courier-BoldOblique	Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Courier New	CourierNewPSMT	CourierNewPS-BoldMT	CourierNewPS-ItalicMT	CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT	Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
DB LCD Temp	DBLCDTempBlack				0123456789abcdef
Geeza Pro	GeezaPro	GeezaPro-Bold			Arabic-العربية/Farsi-فارسی
Georgia	Georgia	Georgia-Bold	Georgia-Italic	Georgia-BoldItalic	Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Heiti J	STHeitiJ-Light	STHeitiJ-Medium			Japanese-にほんご-ニヒンゴ-日本語
Heiti K	STHeitiK-Light	STHeitiK-Medium			Korean-한국어-韓國語
Heiti SC	STHeitiSC-Light	STHeitiSC-Medium			Simplified Chinese-简体中文
Heiti TC	STHeitiTC-Light	STHeitiTC-Medium			Traditional Chinese-繁體中文
Helvetica	Helvetica	Helvetica-Bold	Helvetica-Oblique	Helvetica-BoldOblique	Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Helvetica Neue	HelveticaNeue	HelveticaNeue-Bold			Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN	HiraKakuProN-W3	HiraKakuProN-W6			Japanese-にほんご-ニヒンゴ-日本語
Marker Felt	MarkerFelt-Thin				Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Thonburi	Thonburi	Thonburi-Bold			Thai-ภาษาไทย
Times New Roman	TimesNewRomanPSMT	TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT	TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT	TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT	Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Trebuchet MS	TrebuchetMS	TrebuchetMS-Bold	TrebuchetMS-Italic	Trebuchet-BoldItalic	Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Verdana	Verdana	Verdana-Bold	Verdana-Italic	Verdana-BoldItalic	Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю
Zapfino	Zapfino				Latin-AMZamz157½ßĽΔΩθφДЫжю

Default font sizes

-(void)AllFont

{

                       

    NSArray *familyNames = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:[UIFont familyNames]];

    NSArray *fontNames;

    NSInteger indFamily, indFont;

    NSInteger fontsCount = [familyNames count];

    

    for (indFamily = 0; indFamily < fontsCount; ++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]);

        }

        

    }

    

}