iPhone system font

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SK9 picture SK9 · Oct 1, 2010 · Viewed 227.4k times · Source

What is the name of the default system font on the iPhone?

I would like to retrieve this for customizing a UIView.

Answer

Gary Willoughby picture Gary Willoughby · Oct 1, 2010

To the delight of font purists everywhere, the iPhone system interface uses Helvetica or a variant thereof.

The original iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS system interface uses Helvetica. As first noted by the always excellent DaringFireball, the iPhone 4 uses a subtly revised font called "Helvetica Neue." DaringFireball also notes that this change is related to the iPhone 4 display rather than the iOS 4 operating system and older iPhone models running iOS 4 still use Helvetica as the system font.

iPod models released prior to the iPhone use either Chicago, Espy Sans, or Myriad and use Helvetica after the release of the iPhone.

From http://www.everyipod.com/iphone-faq/iphone-who-designed-iphone-font-used-iphone-ringtones.html

For iOS9 it has changed to San Fransisco. See http://developer.apple.com/fonts for more info.

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