How to calculate actual font point size in iOS 7 (not the bounding rectangle)?

Question

Edit: The linked \"duplicate\" question only deals with calculating text rectangle. I need to calculate actual font size after label scaled it, NOT the string size.<

Answer 1

Next code doesn't support minFontSize and lineBreakMode so if you need them you should improve it by yourself:

CGSize NSString_sizeWithFont(NSString * str, UIFont *font) {
    CGSize result;
    if (NO == [str respondsToSelector: @selector(sizeWithAttributes:)]) {
        // legacy way
        result = [str sizeWithFont: font];
    } else {
        // modern way
        NSDictionary * dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                               font, NSFontAttributeName, nil];
        result = [str sizeWithAttributes: dict];
    }
    return result;
}

UIFont * NSString_calcActualFont(NSString * str, UIFont * initialFont,
                                 CGSize sizeLimit, CGSize * actualSize)
{
    const CGSize curSize = NSString_sizeWithFont(str, initialFont);

    CGFloat actualFontSize = initialFont.pointSize;
    actualFontSize *= MIN(sizeLimit.width / curSize.width, sizeLimit.height / curSize.height);

    UIFont * actualFont = [initialFont fontWithSize: floorf(actualFontSize)];
    *actualSize = NSString_sizeWithFont(str, actualFont);

    return actualFont;
}

Answer 2

My specific quest has been to size the font on 2 labels equally with adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth enabled. The solution works on iOS 6 and 7.

+ (void)sizeLabelFontToMinSizeFor:(UILabel *)label1 and:(UILabel *)label2 {

NSStringDrawingContext *labelContext = [NSStringDrawingContext new];
labelContext.minimumScaleFactor = label1.minimumScaleFactor;

NSAttributedString *attributedString1 = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:label1.text attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName : label1.font}];
// the NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin and NSStringDrawingUsesFontLeading options are magic
[attributedString1 boundingRectWithSize:label1.frame.size options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin | NSStringDrawingUsesFontLeading context:labelContext];

CGFloat actualFontSize1 = label1.font.pointSize * labelContext.actualScaleFactor;

labelContext = [NSStringDrawingContext new];
labelContext.minimumScaleFactor = label2.minimumScaleFactor;

NSAttributedString *attributedString2 = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:label2.text attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName : label2.font}];
[attributedString2 boundingRectWithSize:label2.frame.size options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin | NSStringDrawingUsesFontLeading context:labelContext];

CGFloat actualFontSize2 = label2.font.pointSize * labelContext.actualScaleFactor;

CGFloat minSize = MIN(actualFontSize1, actualFontSize2);

label1.font = [UIFont fontWithName:RCDefaultFontName size:minSize];
label2.font = [UIFont fontWithName:RCDefaultFontName size:minSize];
}