Increasing the font size of first letter in UILabel.text

3
votes

I would like the first letter of the UILabel to have a different font size from others, a few font size larger. Need some guidance on how to do it. The label has a lot of words.

This is what I have tried:

NSArray * words = [Label.text componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];
NSString *firstLetter = [[words objectAtIndex:0] substringToIndex:1];

But got stuck in increasing the size of the NSString. Is there a better way? I am welcome to suggestions and guidance.. Thanks..

EDIT:

[Label setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:12.f]];
NSArray * words = [Label.text componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];
UIFont *fontFirst=[UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:15.f];
NSDictionary *attrsDictFirst=[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:font forKey:NSFontAttributeName];
NSAttributedString *finalString=[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:[[words objectAtIndex:0] substringToIndex:1]  attributes:attrsDictFirst];
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iosuilabel
If you only need iOS 6 or later then use UILabel attributedText. If you need to support iOS 5 or earlier then you can't have more than one font in a UILabel. – rmaddy
I suspect you have to use attributed text. (Or split it into two labels.) – Hot Licks

2 Answers

5
votes

To get, for example, this:

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Say this:

NSString* s2 = @"Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth "
    @"upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated "
    @"to the proposition that all men are created equal.";
NSMutableAttributedString* content2 =
    [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc]
     initWithString:s2
     attributes:
         @{
           NSFontAttributeName:
               [UIFont fontWithName:@"HoeflerText-Black" size:16]
         }];
[content2 setAttributes:
    @{
      NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HoeflerText-Black" size:24]
     } range:NSMakeRange(0,1)];
[content2 addAttributes:
    @{
      NSKernAttributeName:@-4
     } range:NSMakeRange(0,1)];

NSMutableParagraphStyle* para2 = [NSMutableParagraphStyle new];
para2.headIndent = 10;
para2.firstLineHeadIndent = 10;
para2.tailIndent = -10;
para2.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping;
para2.alignment = NSTextAlignmentJustified;
para2.lineHeightMultiple = 1.2;
para2.hyphenationFactor = 1.0;
[content2 addAttribute:NSParagraphStyleAttributeName
                 value:para2 range:NSMakeRange(0,1)];

Then assign content2 to a label's attributedText.

2
votes

Need to use NSAttributedString. iOS6.0 onwards

After getting the first letter make put it into attributed string, change its size.

take rest of the string set other size.

UIFont *font=[UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:12.f];
NSDictionary *attrsDict=[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:font
                                forKey:NSFontAttributeName];
NSAttributedString *attribString=[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:[words[0] substringFromIndex:1]  attributes:attrsDict];


UIFont *fontFirst=[UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:15.f];
NSDictionary *attrsDictFirst=[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:font forKey:NSFontAttributeName];
NSAttributedString *firstString=[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:[attribString subStringToIndex:1]  attributes:attrsDictFirst];

[attribString replaceCharactersInRange:NSMakeRange(0, 1)  withString:firstString];