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Is there a way to programmatically detect if a given font is serif or sans serif?
For example, if the user has selected Palatino it’s serif. If the user selected Arial, it’s sans serif.
I can detect the font name and family name. But I don’t see a serif or san serif property for UIFont. Without this, I guess I’d have to set and track a isSerif BOOL manually for every font available to the user?
In fact there is no attribute of UIFont that hints at the font type.
If you are only relying on OS font familys (50+ iOS 6.x) you could easily manage them in a plist with all (future) attributes necessary. For using a third party set of fonts you could read up ttf spec if there is an attribute for (sans) serif fonts. last resort is to check the family or/and font name for »serif« in it, assumed they are named accordingly.