UILabel: how do you set the font size?

Question

How do you set the font size from a UILabel?

My code:

UILabel *myView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:RectFrame]; [myView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blueColor]]; [myView setText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@" A"]]; [myView setFont:[12] ]; <--- Error [self.view addSubview:myView]; 

Answer 1

[myView setFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:12]]; 

or

[myView setFont:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:12]]; 

or for font family

[myView setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica" size:12]]; 

Answer 2

If your UILabel's font is defined in IB storyboard and you just want to increase size then this will work, worked for me ;)

[_label setFont: [_label.font fontWithSize: sizeYouWant]]; 

Or

[self.label setFont: [self.label.font fontWithSize: sizeYouWant]]; 

Another method as others says also worked:

[_label setFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:13.0]];