This recipe shows how to change the font of a UILabel.
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Recipe
- Create a label and assign some text to display:
var customLabel = new UILabel (new RectangleF(10,10,300,30)); customLabel.Text ="Display this text in custom font"; Add(customLabel);
- Set the font name and size:
customLabel.Font = UIFont.FromName("Helvetica-Bold", 20f);
- Optionally set additional properties that affect the display:
customLabel.AdjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true; // gets smaller if it doesn't fit customLabel.MinimumFontSize = 12f; // never gets smaller than this size customLabel.LineBreakMode = UILineBreakMode.TailTruncation; customLabel.Lines = 1; // 0 means unlimited
Additional Information
A list of fonts available on iOS 5 (refer to the Enumerate Fonts recipe to see how to generate this list):
AcademyEngravedLetPlain
AmericanTypewriter-CondensedLight
AmericanTypewriter-Light
AmericanTypewriter
AmericanTypewriter-Condensed
AmericanTypewriter-Bold
AmericanTypewriter-CondensedBold
AppleColorEmoji
AppleSDGothicNeo-Medium
AppleSDGothicNeo-Bold
ArialMT
Arial-ItalicMT
Arial-BoldMT
Arial-BoldItalicMT
ArialHebrew
ArialHebrew-Bold
ArialRoundedMTBold
BanglaSangamMN-Bold
BanglaSangamMN
Baskerville
Baskerville-Italic
Baskerville-SemiBold
Baskerville-SemiBoldItalic
Baskerville-Bold
Baskerville-BoldItalic
BodoniSvtyTwoITCTT-Book
BodoniSvtyTwoITCTT-BookIta
BodoniSvtyTwoITCTT-Bold
BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT-Book
BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT-BookIt
BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT-Bold
BodoniSvtyTwoSCITCTT-Book
BodoniOrnamentsITCTT
BradleyHandITCTT-Bold
ChalkboardSE-Light
ChalkboardSE-Regular
ChalkboardSE-Bold
Chalkduster
Cochin
Cochin-Italic
Cochin-Bold
Cochin-BoldItalic
Copperplate-Light
Copperplate
Copperplate-Bold
Courier
Courier-Oblique
Courier-Bold
Courier-BoldOblique
CourierNewPSMT
CourierNewPS-BoldMT
CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT
CourierNewPS-ItalicMT
DBLCDTempBlack
DevanagariSangamMN
DevanagariSangamMN-Bold
Didot
Didot-Italic
Didot-Bold
EuphemiaUCAS
EuphemiaUCAS-Italic
EuphemiaUCAS-Bold
Futura-Medium
Futura-MediumItalic
Futura-CondensedMedium
Futura-CondensedExtraBold
GeezaPro
GeezaPro-Bold
Georgia
Georgia-Italic
Georgia-Bold
Georgia-BoldItalic
GillSans-Light
GillSans-LightItalic
GillSans
GillSans-Italic
GillSans-Bold
GillSans-BoldItalic
GujaratiSangamMN
GujaratiSangamMN-Bold
GurmukhiMN
GurmukhiMN-Bold
STHeitiSC-Light
STHeitiSC-Medium
STHeitiTC-Light
STHeitiTC-Medium
Helvetica-Light
Helvetica-LightOblique
Helvetica
Helvetica-Oblique
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique
HelveticaNeue-UltraLight
HelveticaNeue-UltraLightItalic
HelveticaNeue-Light
HelveticaNeue-LightItalic
HelveticaNeue
HelveticaNeue-Italic
HelveticaNeue-Medium
HelveticaNeue-Bold
HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic
HelveticaNeue-CondensedBold
HelveticaNeue-CondensedBlack
HiraKakuProN-W3
HiraKakuProN-W6
HiraMinProN-W3
HiraMinProN-W6
HoeflerText-Regular
HoeflerText-Italic
HoeflerText-Black
HoeflerText-BlackItalic
Kailasa
Kailasa-Bold
KannadaSangamMN
KannadaSangamMN-Bold
MalayalamSangamMN
MalayalamSangamMN-Bold
Marion-Regular
Marion-Italic
Marion-Bold
MarkerFelt-Thin
MarkerFelt-Wide
Noteworthy-Light
Noteworthy-Bold
Optima-Italic
Optima-Regular
Optima-Bold
Optima-BoldItalic
Optima-ExtraBlack
OriyaSangamMN
OriyaSangamMN-Bold
Palatino-Roman
Palatino-Italic
Palatino-Bold
Palatino-BoldItalic
Papyrus
Papyrus-Condensed
PartyLetPlain
SinhalaSangamMN
SinhalaSangamMN-Bold
SnellRoundhand
SnellRoundhand-Bold
SnellRoundhand-Black
TamilSangamMN
TamilSangamMN-Bold
TeluguSangamMN
TeluguSangamMN-Bold
Thonburi
Thonburi-Bold
TimesNewRomanPSMT
TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT
TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT
TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT
TrebuchetMS
TrebuchetMS-Italic
TrebuchetMS-Bold
Trebuchet-BoldItalic
Verdana
Verdana-Italic
Verdana-Bold
Verdana-BoldItalic
ZapfDingbatsITC
Zapfino