Today I was in need of a list of fonts that are installed on the iPhone. As far as I can tell, Apple's documentation does not provide a list of the usable fonts but there are two properties in the UIFont class that can be used to get them. So, I made a very simple script to print out the list of fonts. I was about to email myself the output which is my way of saving information for later (can't beat free, essentially unlimited storage) when I figured I may as well post it here since I was unable to find this list on the web to begin with.
This code will print out a list of the usable fonts using [UIFont familyNames] and [UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName].
NSArray *families = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:[UIFont familyNames]]; for (int i = 0; i < [families count]; i++) { NSLog(@"Family: %@ \nFonts:", [families objectAtIndex:i]); NSArray *names = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:[UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName:[families objectAtIndex:i]]]; for (int j = 0; j < [names count]; j++) NSLog(@"\t %@", [names objectAtIndex:j]); [names release]; NSLog(@"\n"); } [families release];
I assume this list is liable to change from version to version since Apple does not have a static list of fonts in the documentation. This is the output using iPhone SDK version 2.2.1:
Family: Courier Fonts: Courier Courier-BoldOblique Courier-Oblique Courier-Bold Family: AppleGothic Fonts: AppleGothic Family: Arial Fonts: ArialMT Arial-BoldMT Arial-BoldItalicMT Arial-ItalicMT Family: STHeiti TC Fonts: STHeitiTC-Light STHeitiTC-Medium Family: Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN Fonts: HiraKakuProN-W6 HiraKakuProN-W3 Family: Courier New Fonts: CourierNewPS-BoldMT CourierNewPS-ItalicMT CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT CourierNewPSMT Family: Zapfino Fonts: Zapfino Family: Arial Unicode MS Fonts: ArialUnicodeMS Family: STHeiti SC Fonts: STHeitiSC-Medium STHeitiSC-Light Family: American Typewriter Fonts: AmericanTypewriter AmericanTypewriter-Bold Family: Helvetica Fonts: Helvetica-Oblique Helvetica-BoldOblique Helvetica Helvetica-Bold Family: Marker Felt Fonts: MarkerFelt-Thin Family: Helvetica Neue Fonts: HelveticaNeue HelveticaNeue-Bold Family: DB LCD Temp Fonts: DBLCDTempBlack Family: Verdana Fonts: Verdana-Bold Verdana-BoldItalic Verdana Verdana-Italic Family: Times New Roman Fonts: TimesNewRomanPSMT TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT Family: Georgia Fonts: Georgia-Bold Georgia Georgia-BoldItalic Georgia-Italic Family: STHeiti J Fonts: STHeitiJ-Medium STHeitiJ-Light Family: Arial Rounded MT Bold Fonts: ArialRoundedMTBold Family: Trebuchet MS Fonts: TrebuchetMS-Italic TrebuchetMS Trebuchet-BoldItalic TrebuchetMS-Bold Family: STHeiti K Fonts: STHeitiK-Medium STHeitiK-Light