How to use a custom font with dynamic text sizes in iOS7

Question

In iOS7 there are new API\'s for getting a font that is automatically adjusted to the text size the user has set in their preferences.

It looks something like this to

Answer 1

Similar to @bill-weinman's approach, I took the scales, and broke it out into a function that doesn't rely on a given font size of 16.

/// The font scale for a given font size.
///
/// - seealso: [Source](https://stackoverflow.com/a/33114525/3643020)
///
/// - Parameter fontSize: The font size.
/// - Returns: The font scale
public func fontScale(for fontSize: CGFloat) -> CGFloat {
    switch UIApplication.shared.preferredContentSizeCategory {
    case UIContentSizeCategory.accessibilityExtraExtraExtraLarge:    return (fontSize + 8) / fontSize
    case UIContentSizeCategory.accessibilityExtraExtraLarge:         return (fontSize + 7) / fontSize
    case UIContentSizeCategory.accessibilityExtraLarge:              return (fontSize + 6) / fontSize
    case UIContentSizeCategory.accessibilityLarge:                   return (fontSize + 5) / fontSize
    case UIContentSizeCategory.accessibilityMedium:                  return (fontSize + 4) / fontSize
    case UIContentSizeCategory.extraExtraExtraLarge:                 return (fontSize + 3) / fontSize
    case UIContentSizeCategory.extraExtraLarge:                      return (fontSize + 2) / fontSize
    case UIContentSizeCategory.extraLarge:                           return (fontSize + 1) / fontSize
    case UIContentSizeCategory.large:                                return 1.0
    case UIContentSizeCategory.medium:                               return (fontSize - 1) / fontSize
    case UIContentSizeCategory.small:                                return (fontSize - 2) / fontSize
    case UIContentSizeCategory.extraSmall:                           return (fontSize - 3) / fontSize
    default:
        return 1.0
    }
}

It can then be used with custom fonts like this:

/// Light font of specified size.
///
/// - Parameter size: Font size.
/// - Returns: Light font of specified size.
func lightFont(ofSize size: CGFloat) -> UIFont {
    let scaledSize = size * fontScale(for: size)

    return UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt", size: scaledSize)!
}