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Asked: 2026-05-23T16:24:56+00:00

Given a UIFont or a CTFont, how can I tell whether the font is

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Given a UIFont or a CTFont, how can I tell whether the font is bold/italic?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looking at the font’s name won’t always work. Consider the font “Courier Oblique” (which is italic) or “HoeflerText-Black” (which is bold), Neither of those contain “bold” or “italic” in their names.

    Given a font as a CTFontRef, the proper way to determine whether it’s bold or italic is to use the CTFontGetSymbolicTraits function:

    CTFontRef font = CTFontCreateWithName((CFStringRef)@"Courier Oblique", 10, NULL);
CTFontSymbolicTraits traits = CTFontGetSymbolicTraits(font);
BOOL isItalic = ((traits & kCTFontItalicTrait) == kCTFontItalicTrait);
BOOL isBold = ((traits & kCTFontBoldTrait) == kCTFontBoldTrait);
NSLog(@"Italic: %i Bold: %i", isItalic, isBold);
CFRelease(font);
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