Randomize Everything

Coming from the Flash Platform I’m used to do a lot of font embedding in my projects. A few week ago I looked into this topic when programming an iPad application which needed a complete design makeover with custom fonts to spice it up a bit.

So how do you go about including custom fonts in an iPhone/iPad project? Well, it’s not that hard if you’re having a little bit of objective-c experience. You should download the FontLabel library, add it to your project and start creating FontLabel instances in code. I sense you feel the need for an example, so here it is:

FontLabel *questionLabel = [[FontLabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(60, 115, 900, 130) fontName:@"DINPro-Medium" pointSize:30.0f];
questionLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
questionLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
questionLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeTailTruncation;
questionLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:0.0 alpha:0.0];
questionLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
[self.view addSubview:questionLabel];
[questionLabel release];

“DINPro-Medium” is a TrueType font included in my resources bundle. Please do mind that FontLabel currently only accepts TrueType fonts, so you might want to convert some of those non-ttf fonts to ttf. A good online font converter can be found here: http://onlinefontconverter.com/