
We recommend these fonts because they are legible and widely available and because they include special characters such as math symbols and Greek letters. serif fonts such as 12-point Times New Roman, 11-point Georgia, or normal (10-point) Computer Modern (the default font for LaTeX).sans serif fonts such as 11-point Calibri, 11-point Arial, or 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode.bold ) Set font-weight with bold() modifierįont and Text view also has another method to apply a bold font weight to the text, bold().A variety of fonts are permitted in APA Style papers. Since it is a Text instance method, we use this on a text, not a font. You can set it with fontWeight(_:) modifier. Text view also has a way to modify font-weight. ) Set font-weight with fontWeight(_:) modifier You can set this when you initialize a custom system font. ) Default, semi-bold, bold, heavy, and black font-weight. The closest weight will use as a fallback if specified can't be fulfilled. weight on a custom font, but not all weights may not be available under that font. ) Default, bold, light, and heavy font-weight. This is a Font instance method, so we use this on a font, not text. You can do it through both Font and Text instance methods. Text ( "Hello, world!" )įixedSize : 34 ) ) How to change SwiftUI font Weight To set a font design for a custom font, we manually specify the name of that font design. Most custom fonts don't have all four styles, so we don't have the same method signature as the system font. If you initialize a fixed-size font, you can set the font design like this: Text ( "Hello, world!" ) If you want to customize the font design of a text style, you can set it like this: Text ( "Hello, world!" ) We can set it at a time when we create a font. We have four font designs to choose from. You can read more about that in How to change SwiftUI font size How to change SwiftUI font Design You can also set a size for custom font relative to text style with Font.custom(_:size:). Note that once you decide to set your font size, you opt out of the benefits of text style we talked about in the last section. If the text style size doesn't match what your need, you can set a font size by specified when you initialize a font. Text style font can adapt to Dynamic Type size.Īpple encourages us to use built-in text styles whenever possible. Here is an example of how text style adapts its size based on user text size preference.


So you can easily set text style like this: Text ( "Hello, world!" ) Apple does the hard work to define the perfect size for each text style.Īdopting text style lets you take advantage of Dynamic Type where your text automatically adjusts size, tracking, and leading based on user preference.Īpple has 11 text styles at the moment: Large Title, Title 1, Title 2, Title 3, Headline, Body, Callout, Subhead, Footnote, Caption 1, and Caption 2.Īll text styles are declared as a Font's static property, e.g.

Text style is a way to expresses a font in terms of its function.įor example, if you want to set a font for a headline text of your view, you can set it to Headline text style without specifying the font size.
