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My font does not respond and it says nil<\/code> when I print it? What’s happening here?
\nActually, if your UIFont<\/code> happens to be nil<\/code>, it’s maybe because you’re not calling it properly! Haha, very funny, I know, but let’s have a look at happened to me recently.<\/p>\n

Here is what I did:
\nI imported \"MyFont-Regular.ttf\"<\/code> and \"MyFont-bold.ttf\"<\/code> in Xcode.
\nI set the constants with the font name.<\/p>\n

let fontRegular = \"MyFont-Regular\"\r\nlet fontBold = \"MyFont-Bold\"<\/pre>\n
And I set the font to that label in the view:<\/p>\n
label.font = UIFont(name: fontRegular, size: 12.0)<\/pre>\n
and … nothing happened, well, the label was\u00a0displayed but not as wanted. I expected something like label2<\/code> and label1<\/code> happened. And Label3<\/code> worked just fine btw…<\/p>\n
\"UIFont<\/a>
Label 1, 2 and 3… fail, expected and success<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
I printed\u00a0the UIFont<\/code>\u00a0and it failed on that line!\u00a0So I double checked if my fonts were loaded correctly. And they were, so the problem was somewhere else.<\/p>\n
Then I remembered I saw something about printing the available fonts in this article: Custom Fonts in Swift<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Those few lines can save you a lot of time and trouble:<\/p>\n
func printMyFonts() {\r\n    print(\"--------- Available Font names ----------\")\r\n\r\n    for name in UIFont.familyNames() {\r\n        print(name)\r\n        if let nameString = name as? String {\r\n            print(UIFont.fontNamesForFamilyName(nameString))\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n}<\/pre>\n
After running the little PrintMyFonts()<\/code> function, I realized that the font I needed was called \"MyFont\"<\/code> by the system and not \"MyFont-Regular\"<\/code>. Aha!<\/p>\n
\"Facepalm\"<\/a><\/p>\n
That sounds maybe trivial, but I hope this will help you avoiding headaches and pants-over-head frustration. And remember: do not assume<\/strong> the font name based on the file name, even if it works sometimes ;)<\/p>\n
Bonus:<\/strong> the list of default fonts supported on iOS: iOSFonts.com<\/a>. It lists every font for every iOS version, for iPhone, iPad and \uf8ffWatch, pretty neat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My font does not respond and it says nil when I print it? What’s happening here? Actually, if your UIFont happens to be nil, it’s maybe because you’re not calling it properly! Haha, very funny, I know, but let’s have a look at happened to me recently. Here is what I did: I imported “MyFont-Regular.ttf” and “MyFont-bold.ttf” in Xcode. 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