How to get the System font in an iOS app?

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Dave Haigh picture Dave Haigh · Oct 8, 2013 · Viewed 11k times · Source

I am using Xamarin Studio to develop an iOS iPad app. I need to assign the System font name to a variable in the code behind on one of the pages.

How do I get whatever the System font is programmatically?

Answer

Krumelur picture Krumelur · Oct 8, 2013

NOTE: Before somebody thinks he has to change this answer: This is answering a question about Xamarin.iOS and not ObjectiveC. The API really uses uppercase properties and method names.

Create a system UIFont and read its properties:

var font = UIFont.SystemFontOfSize(10);
string familyName = font.FamilyName;
string fontName = font.Name;

See also Apple's reference for UIFont.

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