Download font .ttf file from web and store on iPhone

Question

Is it possible to download .ttf file from web and store it on iPhone. Then use that for for labels and all other stuff ? Because my client want to control fonts from databas

Answer 1

It is possible. I created an example swift project in github. You have to just add the few line below.

var uiFont : UIFont?
let fontData = data

let dataProvider = CGDataProviderCreateWithCFData(fontData)
let cgFont = CGFontCreateWithDataProvider(dataProvider)

var error: Unmanaged?
if !CTFontManagerRegisterGraphicsFont(cgFont, &error)
{
   print("Error loading Font!")
} else {
   let fontName = CGFontCopyPostScriptName(cgFont)
   uiFont = UIFont(name: String(fontName) , size: 30)
}

Github project link