Which non-bold UTF-8 iPhone SDK font can I use here?

Question

Problem: I create a UILabel with this font:

label.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:15.0f];

Now this system font is bold, but I want to display pretty small text, and the text may also contain very strange UTF-8 characters like chinese chars and stuff like that.

So which other fonts are there to use safely, which are NOT bold and suitful to display in small size?

Answer 1

Check out this list and choose the one that you like.
Also, you may want to take a look at this article, it discusses a method of finding all the fonts that are currently installed on the device. As far as I know, systemFontOfSize will not return a bold font, boldSystemFontOfSize will. Anyway, you may try [UIFont fontWithName:@"Verdana" size:14.0], I think it's pretty easy to read and not bold.