I have a requirement for some labels in my app to use Lucida Grande. When I specify this font in Xcode it renders correctly in the xib, but when you launch the app in Yosemite it switches back to Helvetica Neue.
How can I get this to work correctly?
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You could probably do it in code after the NIB has loaded. Connect an outlet to the text field and set its `font` property. – Ken Thomases Nov 27 '14 at 16:46
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Seems like this would make a good reduction to submit to Apple with a bug report. – Jon Shier Nov 30 '14 at 11:24
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As per Ken's advice, setting the font manually in the awakeFromNib() method gives the correct result.
You can either set the font property of the NSTextField
[self.myLabel setFont:[NSFont fontWithName:@"Lucida Grande" size:50.f]];
or use an NSAttributedString
NSDictionary *attributes = @{ NSFontAttributeName : [NSFont fontWithName:@"Lucida Grande" size:50] };
NSAttributedString *text = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Hello" attributes:attributes];
[self.myLabel setAttributedStringValue:text];
Interestingly, in many cases I have seen fonts with spaces in the font name input with dashes, i.e. @"Lucida-Grande", this actually breaks the output, dashes must be omitted.
Demian Turner
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