Jonathan Saggau's Blog

When you're designing custom views or otherwise theming your iPhone application, it's nice to be able to see all of the available fonts. I couldn't find anything online that showed them, so I made my own little application. You can get it at FontListViz.tgz.







It's pretty well dirt simple. Get all font family names, then get all of the font names in each family and store them in an array, then put each font name's text in a table view cell and set the table view cell's font using -[UIFont fontWithName:size:] and, well, Bob's your uncle -- instant very simple font viewer.

- (void)viewDidLoad 
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    self.fontNames = [NSMutableArray array];
    NSArray *fontFamilyNames = [UIFont familyNames];
    for (NSString *familyName in fontFamilyNames) {
        NSLog(@"familyName = %@", familyName);
        NSArray *names = [UIFont fontNamesForFamilyName:familyName];
        NSLog(@"FontNames = %@", fontNames);
        [self.fontNames addObjectsFromArray:names];
    }
}
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- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
{
    
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
    }
    
    NSString *name = [self.fontNames objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    cell.text = name;
    cell.font = [UIFont fontWithName:name size:14];
    return cell;
}