One of the most common questions I get when working with clients on iPhone apps is this one:
Which fonts can I use in iPhone apps?
I was surprised to see that the Xcode documentation does not bring a list of the fonts available in the iPhone OS (have I missed it? Is it somewhere else?), and I was happy to find this blog post the other day. Taking his idea as a basis, I’ve created a font browser for the iPhone which I’ve published in the projects section of this blog.
Feel free to play with the code! As usual, no warranties of any kind, but I’m already using it every day :)
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7 Comments
11.12.2008
Wow thanks – I was looking for that information for a long time too!
11.12.2008
I’ve just found a Daring Fireball entry in which Gruber explains the fonts included in the iPhone OS and their relationship with their Mac OS X siblings…
http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/iphone_fonts
02.02.2009
Thanks for this, Adrian, much appreciated.
02.02.2009
You’re welcome Ole!
02.07.2009
excellent idea ! The AppleGothic is quite close from Univers. It’s an important font as the American writer for expressing code
12.20.2009
[...] for the application” and the guy provides me with… a CSS stylesheet. Which references a font not available on the iPhone, by the way, and with colors in hex [...]
01.30.2010
The list has been updated in the last version of Xcode
http://www.myfirstiphoneapplication.com/2010/01/list-of-fonts-available-on-the-iphone/
Pierre
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