Comments on: Understanding UIFont

By: All you need is Fonts

All you need is Fonts — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:40:27 +0000

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By: Petrus Ali

Petrus Ali — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:24:06 +0000

Hi, would u mind sharing the source code? Thanks.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:06:39 +0000

True, true. It becomes very specific to the font though. If only there was some way to automagically adjust it … (rummages around) … whoa! Check this out: https://github.com/kballard/FontLabel – will need to study s’more …

By: Drops

Drops — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:09:27 +0000

On some of the ways of drawing you can shift the baseline with transforms.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:27:11 +0000

Bravo! Question: Some of those fonts have a lot of extra space on the bottom, causing them to be a bit north-of-center when using A-Za-z0-9 and so on. Are there any non-destructive tweaks that can be made to recenter those vs. manually offsetting things (ick, don’t want to go there)? I looked at UIFont (not much there), UILabel (better, but various experiments proved fruitless) … clues appreciated!

By: Befriending Core Text | Cocoanetics

Befriending Core Text | Cocoanetics — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:44:57 +0000

[...] use the postscript name. A sample list of all built-in fonts on iPhone/iPad refer to my article on Understanding UIFont. As of iOS 3.2 you can also add your own fonts by registering them in the info.plist and adding [...]

By: drops

drops — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:28:27 +0000

I might have it somewhere. Need to go searching for it though.

By: tylern.myopenid.com/

tylern.myopenid.com/ — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:20:42 +0000

Hi Dr. Touch,

Do you happen to have source available that was used to generate the top image here, the one with the cap height, x height, etc?

My real goal is to reliably draw different fonts/sizes with the same baseline in an implementation of my own type of rich text without resorting to a web view. So basically I’m wondering if you have already solved this problem for this post.

Also, thanks for the very useful info!

By: Bynomial Code » iPad fonts

Bynomial Code » iPad fonts — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:33:58 +0000

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By: kgjamison

kgjamison — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:10:19 +0000

Thanks, that is great to know. As always, great post.

By: Ole Begemann

Ole Begemann — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:48:00 +0000

(at least if it weren’t for the fact that your comment engine has eaten all the format specifiers)

By: Ole Begemann

Ole Begemann — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:47:01 +0000

Nice article, Oliver. One correction: it is a really bad idea to hardcode the class name in a description string. It would be better like this:

- (NSString *)description {
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"", [self class], self, self.fontName, self.pointSize];
}

By: xeleh

xeleh — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:03:35 +0000

Terrific post, Oliver. Thanks!