Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSFont — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

This class represents a single font in an application. NSAttributedString uses NSFont as an attribute that specifies which font a string should be drawn in. NSFont provides access to all of the characteristics of a font, such as the ascender and descender height, italic angle, underline thickness, and more.

@interface NSFont : NSObject <NSCoding, NSCopying>

// Convenience Constructors

+ (NSFont *)fontWithName:(NSString *)fontName matrix:(const float *)fontMatrix;

+ (NSFont *)fontWithName:(NSString *)fontName size:(float)fontSize;

// Class Methods

+ (float)labelFontSize;

+ (float)smallSystemFontSize;

+ (float)systemFontSize;

+ (NSFont *)boldSystemFontOfSize:(float)fontSize;

+ (NSFont *)controlContentFontOfSize:(float)fontSize;

+ (NSFont *)labelFontOfSize:(float)fontSize;

+ (NSFont *)menuFontOfSize:(float)fontSize;

+ (NSFont *)messageFontOfSize:(float)fontSize;

+ (NSFont *)paletteFontOfSize:(float)fontSize;

+ (NSArray *)preferredFontNames;

+ (void)setPreferredFontNames:(NSArray *)fontNameArray;

+ (void)setUserFixedPitchFont:(NSFont *)aFont;

+ (void)setUserFont:(NSFont *)aFont;

+ (NSFont *)systemFontOfSize:(float)fontSize;

+ (NSFont *)titleBarFontOfSize:(float)fontSize;

+ (NSFont *)toolTipsFontOfSize:(float)fontSize;

+ (void)useFont:(NSString *)fontName;

+ (NSFont *)userFixedPitchFontOfSize:(float)