UILabel or UITextView with first letter very big font in two line

Question

How to customize UILabel or UITextView like given image i-e big "T" is shown in two lines of the label. Or please suggest any library for that:

Answer 1

I think that you will find in here a lot of useful informations about this topic

So you need use CoreText to achieve your goal.

Answer 2

Try this

Note this only for TextView

        NSString *myTextString =@"Your are qualified as a lawyer specializing in marine cases, shipping, arbitration and commercial litigation";
        UIBezierPath * imgRect = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, 40, 40)]; // you can change this as per your needs
        txtViewDescription.textContainer.exclusionPaths = @[imgRect];
        txtViewDescription.text =  myTextString;
        txtViewDescription.text = [txtViewDescription.text substringFromIndex:1]; // Remove first letter from string

        UILabel *lbl = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 0, 80, 80)];// you can change this as per your needs
        lbl.font = [UIFont fontWithName:Lato_BOLD size:50];
        lbl.text = [myTextString substringToIndex: 1]; // get first letter of string
        [self.view bringSubviewToFront:lbl];
        [self.view addSubview:lbl];// if your textview added to self.view else change with your view

Answer 3

This is what I implemented on a playground (Swift 3 answer):

import UIKit

// declare the label:
let label = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 300))
label.numberOfLines = 2
label.backgroundColor = UIColor.white

// this should be the desired text
let myString = "This is my pretty string that should contains a couple of lines."

// setup the attributed string
let content = NSMutableAttributedString(string: myString, attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 20)])
content.setAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 40), NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.red], range: NSRange(location: 0, length: 1))

// assign the string to the label
label.attributedText = content

Output:

Answer 4

@KKRocks's answer in Swift 3.0

    let yourString = "This easy granola is inspired by a grain-free granola from Costco that I love. The ingredient list is short so I figured that I could make it at home quite easily."



    let lbl = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 5, y: 5, width: 30, height: 30))
    lbl.font = UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 40)
    lbl.text = yourString[0]
    txtView.addSubview(lbl)
    txtView.bringSubview(toFront: lbl)

    let bezierPath = UIBezierPath(rect: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 35, height: 30))
    txtView.textContainer.exclusionPaths = [bezierPath]
    txtView.text = yourString.substring(from: 1)
    // txtView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(10, 10, 10, 10)