What font support will the iPhone runtime have?

[Simon]

Just that really... how will fonts be handled?

[Francois]

You just set the font of the objects as you do usually It might be buggy in this version

[Simon]

OK, great For reference, as Apple apparently helpfully don't list this anywhere (according to many blogs on the subject at least) here is the list of installed fonts on iOS:

• American Typewriter
• American Typewriter Condensed
• Arial
• Arial Rounded MT Bold
• Courier New
• Georgia
• Helvetica (the system UI uses this almost everywhere)
• Marker Felt
• Times New Roman
• Trebuchet MS
• Verdana
• Zapfino

[Simon]

I have compiled a set of all of the iPhone fonts, in Windows ttf format. A few of these are copyrighted so this is not for general distribution. That said, if you own a valid copy of OS X Leopard you already have licences included in that to use the copyrighted fonts.

You can download the rar of them here: http://www.acsv.net/members/stopgap/...ndowsFonts.rar (5MB)

[Francois]

Thanks!