iPhone system font

Question

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

I would like to retrieve this for customizing a UIView.

Answer 1

Category UIFontSystemFonts for UIFont (UIInterface.h) provides several convenient predefined sizes.

@interface UIFont (UIFontSystemFonts)
 + (CGFloat)labelFontSize;
 + (CGFloat)buttonFontSize;
 + (CGFloat)smallSystemFontSize;
 + (CGFloat)systemFontSize;
@end 

I use it for chat messages (labels) and it work well when I need to get size of text blocks.

 [UIFont systemFontOfSize:[UIFont labelFontSize]];

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