iOS Font Sizes

Below are the font and point sizes used by iOS at the default sizing level. You can read more, including about the accessibility curves, on Apple’s documentation.

.extraLargeTitle
iOS 17
36.0 SFUI-Bold
.extraLargeTitle2
iOS 17
28.0 SFUI-Bold
.largeTitle 34.0 SFUI-Regular
.title1 28.0 SFUI-Regular
.title2 22.0 SFUI-Regular
.title3 20.0 SFUI-Regular
.headline 17.0 SFUI-Semibold
.subheadline 15.0 SFUI-Regular
.body 17.0 SFUI-Regular
.callout 16.0 SFUI-Regular
.footnote 13.0 SFUI-Regular
.caption1 12.0 SFUI-Regular
.caption2 11.0 SFUI-Regular

Usage

Use preferredFont(forTextStyle:) or scaledFont(for:) with the UIFont.TextStyle constants instead of hard-coding font values in your code.

// update when the user changes their settings
label.adjustsFontForContentSizeCategory = true
label.font = UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .body)

You can use a modified version of the font with the same scaling:

// for a custom font at the normal scaling
let adjustedFont = UIFont(name: "AmericanTypewriter", size: 17.0)

// for the system font, but starting at a different default point size
// this point size value must be defined as a constant, see below
let adjustedFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16.0, weight: .regular)

// use the scaled font version so it still updates automatically
label.adjustsFontForContentSizeCategory = true
label.font = UIFontMetrics(forTextStyle: .body).scaledFont(for: adjustedFont)

NOTE: The current point size from preferredFont(forTextStyle:) already includes scaling. Using it as the starting point will produce double-scaled fonts at ridiculous point sizes.