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The PhotoEditor SDK for iOS ships with a robust tool that provides all necessary functions for quickly adding text. Learn how to add custom fonts.

Text tool

A picture says more than a thousand words, however sometimes it still takes a few more. The robust text feature of the PhotoEditor SDK provides all necessary functions for quickly adding text to any picture or creative. The corresponding font library can easily be exchanged, reduced, or expanded.

The tool is implemented in the TextToolController class and can be configured using the TextToolControllerOptions. In order to adjust the available colors, change their names or the default color you have to modify the TextColorToolControllerOptions. For more details take a look at the configuration section.

Adding and removing fonts#

For version 6 of our SDK, we added an easy way to use your own fonts. The FontImporter class now has a static all property that holds an array of Font objects. By default, this array contains all fonts that we ship with the SDK.

A Font object is a simple collection of the metadata of a font, the fontName, the displayName and the path. The path points to the font file, or is empty if a system font should be added. Since font names or their family names can get quite long and/or ugly, the string stored in the displayName property is used throughout the UI. The fontName refers to the name of the font. That can be the family name. That property is passed to the constructor of UIFont. If any font doesn't load, it is mostly due to the wrong value of the fontName property. If you're having trouble loading a font, please refer to the official documentation of UIFont, to understand how the name must be constructed.

Here is an example font array that adds system fonts:

private func customizeFonts() {
FontImporter.all = [
Font(displayName: "Arial", fontName: "ArialMT", identifier: "ArialMT"),
Font(displayName: "Helvetica", fontName: "Helvetica", identifier: "Helvetica"),
Font(displayName: "Avenir", fontName: "Avenir-Heavy", identifier: "Avenir-Heavy"),
Font(displayName: "Chalk", fontName: "Chalkduster", identifier: "Chalkduster"),
Font(displayName: "Copperplate", fontName: "Copperplate", identifier: "Copperplate"),
Font(displayName: "Noteworthy", fontName: "Noteworthy-Bold", identifier: "Noteworthy-Bold")
]
}

Supported types are ttf and otf.