Adding multiple fonts to UIAppFonts overrides each other

Question

I'm trying to add some custom fonts to an iPhone app through UIAppFonts in Info.plist.

I can reach both fontnames by code, i.e. MyFont-Bold and MyFont-Medium.

My problem is that the last font in UIAppFonts array overrides the other one, making both MyFont-Bold and MyFont-Medium render out MyFont-Bold if this is the last entry in the plist array. By dragging MyFont-Bold as the first entry makes both font-names render MyFont-Medium.

The property list excerpt:

UIAppFonts
  item 0    MyFont-Medium
  item 1    MyFont-Bold

I'm calling the font with:

UIFont* applicationFontBold = [UIFont fontWithName:@"MyFont-Bold"
                                              size:[UIFont buttonFontSize]];

UIFont* applicationFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"MyFont-Medium"
                                          size:[UIFont buttonFontSize]];

Anyone tried adding multiple fonts to one font-family?

Answer 1

Don't know if it was ever fixed, but I worked around this issue by actually modifying the font family names inside the .ttf files, using vim editor. Because you have different font-types (Bold and Medium) but actually the same fontfamily (MyFont) - the system mixes them up. So what I did in the first file - I actually modified the family to be MyFontA, and in the second file MyFontB (of course I had different names - these are just to match the example above). This worked perfect.

Answer 2

I had a similar issue with multiple fonts of the same font family. I found that if I viewed the info.plist file as source code, the xml not formatted properly which cause only some of the fonts to register.