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How to Use Custom Fonts With Dynamic Type in iOS apps
Add a new font to your iOS app today
A while back, we looked into Dynamic Type with the system font. This time, we are going to check out how to use Dynamic Type with a custom font in our iOS apps. Apple provides great APIs to make our apps accessible — even if we’re using custom font styles.
Add Custom Font to App
First, we need to add our custom font to the project. There are several steps involved, so let’s go over them.
We need to add a font file to the Xcode app project. Currently, True Type Font (.ttf) and Open Type Font (.otf) files are being supported. Just drag and drop files in your XCode project. Be careful and select targets you want to use this font in:
If you forget to add the font to the specific target membership in your Xcode project, you will run into an issue when the font file is not found:
