Accessibility and fonts

In every app we work on from now on, we are going to use a custom font. The fonts we'll be using throughout this book are in each project file for you. But I wanted to go over fonts in general and how we'll use this class.

We used system fonts in the previous chapter, but I did not cover them in depth. Apple would prefer fonts that can scale, and even though we are making a watch app in this chapter, I would like to make it a habit to use scalable fonts in every app.

Let's look at how system fonts work first.

System fonts

In Storyboards, we had a panel to set your fonts manually, but in SwiftUI, it is effortless to append a font to Text ("Craig"). Let's look at a couple of examples again of system fonts:

Text("Craig Clayton").font(.headline)
Text("Craig Clayton").font(.subheadline)
Text("Craig Clayton").font(.title)
Text("Craig Clayton").font(.largeTitle)
Text("Craig Clayton...