Make part of a UILabel bold in Swift

Question

I have a UILabel I\'ve made programmatically as:

var label = UILabel()

I\'ve then declared some styling for the label, includi

Answer 1

You can use NSMutableAttributedString and NSAttributedString to create customized string. The function below makes given boldString bold in given string.

Swift 3

func attributedText(withString string: String, boldString: String, font: UIFont) -> NSAttributedString {
    let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: string,
                                                     attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: font])
    let boldFontAttribute: [String: Any] = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: font.pointSize)]
    let range = (string as NSString).range(of: boldString)
    attributedString.addAttributes(boldFontAttribute, range: range)
    return attributedString
}

Example usage

authorLabel.attributedText = attributedText(withString: String(format: "Author : %@", user.name), boldString: "Author", font: authorLabel.font)

Swift 4

func attributedText(withString string: String, boldString: String, font: UIFont) -> NSAttributedString {
    let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: string,
                                                     attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.font: font])
    let boldFontAttribute: [NSAttributedStringKey: Any] = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: font.pointSize)]
    let range = (string as NSString).range(of: boldString)
    attributedString.addAttributes(boldFontAttribute, range: range)
    return attributedString
}

Swift 4.2 and 5

func attributedText(withString string: String, boldString: String, font: UIFont) -> NSAttributedString {
    let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: string,
                                                 attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.font: font])
    let boldFontAttribute: [NSAttributedString.Key: Any] = [NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: font.pointSize)]
    let range = (string as NSString).range(of: boldString)
    attributedString.addAttributes(boldFontAttribute, range: range)
    return attributedString
}