iPhone dev Stupidity 61: Font

1. Font list supported by iPhone:

From DaringFireball, detailed list here.

• American Typewriter
• American Typewriter Condensed
• Arial
• Arial Rounded MT Bold
• Courier New
• Georgia
• Helvetica -> iPhone UI use this font
• Marker Felt
• Times New Roman
• Trebuchet MS
• Verdana
• Zapfino

2. How to make it bold

You need to pass in the name of the specific font within the family. Use the "fontNamesForFamilyName" method of UIFont to get a list of names.

The naming scheme is not consistent. Here are some examples of bold font names:

"Helvetica-Bold"
"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT"
"Arial-BoldMT"
"CourierNewPS-BoldMT"
"Georgia-Bold"