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I'm trying to use a Helvetica Neue Condensed font which I got from the Adobe Font Collection Pro Package. Unfortunately, it seems to draw incorrectly when I use it within a UILabel.
The line height seems to be calculated correctly (I think), but when the font is displayed, it is aligned to the very top of the bounding box. I called [myLabel sizeToFit] and only adjusted the width to produce this screen capture:
I had the same problem with both the bold and regular version of the font. I was able to pull a version of Helvetica Neue Bold from OSX and put it on my device and it displays fine (green background in above picture).
What could be wrong with the either the font file or my code that would cause it to draw this way?
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To add a font file to your Xcode project, select File > Add Files to “Your Project Name” from the menu bar, or drag the file from Finder and drop it into your Xcode project. You can add True Type Font (. ttf) and Open Type Font (. otf) files.
Add your fonts to the Info. plist file where you will want to add your fonts. Hover on the last line in the list and click on the plus sign to add a new line. Select the option “Fonts provided by application.” Now you will add all your fonts and make sure the string is EXACTLY THE SAME as the font file (. otf, .
Select File menu > Add Files to "Your Project Name"... from the menu bar, select all the fonts you need to add, then click the Add button. Or drag the file from Finder and drop it into your Xcode project.
I posted a solution that involves patching ttf font file here:
Here's the solution that worked for my custom font which had the same issue in UILabel, UIButton and such. The problem with the font turned out to be the fact that its ascender property was too small compared to the value of system fonts. Ascender is a vertical whitespace above font's characters. To fix your font you will have to download Apple Font Tool Suite command line utilities. Then take your font and do the following:
~$ ftxdumperfuser -t hhea -A d Bold.ttf This will create Bold.hhea.xml. Open it with a text editor and increase the value of ascender attribute. You will have to experiment a little to find out the exact value that works best for you. In my case I changed it from 750 to 1200. Then run the utility again with the following command line to merge your changes back into the ttf file:
~$ ftxdumperfuser -t hhea -A f Bold.ttf Then just use the resulting ttf font in your app.
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