custom font not working programmatically in swift

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Let’s say you want to add this font: SourceSansPro-Regular.otf

Four steps:

  1. Add the font file SourceSansPro-Regular.otf to your project, make sure you select your target in the “Add to targets”.

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Go to the target’s Build Phases and make sure it is under Copy Bundle Resources. If not, add it.

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2. Go to the target’s Info. Add a new entry Font provided by application then add a new item with this value SourceSansPro-Regular.otf.

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  1. From your finder, double click on the file SourceSansPro-Regular.otf, it might ask you to install the font to your Font Book.
  1. Open the OS X Font Book application, navigate to your font then press Command+i. Note the PostScript name and use that name in your Swift code. In this case, it’s SourceSansPro-Regular.
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So in your code:

labeladd.font = UIFont(name:"SourceSansPro-Regular", size:15)

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