Use custom fonts

How to add custom fonts to your Swift cross platform app on Android and iOS

Fonts are important for the look and feel of an application. SCADE supports Truetype fonts. In this chapter, we will show how to install and use them in your app.

SCADE only supports fonts of type TTF (TrueType fonts) with a postfix of .ttf

Install the font

For this example, we will use the Circus font found here https://all-free-download.com/font/download/circus_font_2133_download.html

Download font to your folder

Clock on the font to show up in MAC font manager and press install

Font is successfully installed. Please ensure that the font was installed successfully, sometimes font have issue (see example below)

Restart SCADE

SCADE needs to be restarted to pickup the new font.

Use Font

Pick the font from the font dropdown and use it anywhere in the app.

It will be automatically be copied to the app and used in your app.

You don't have to do anything to get the font into the app, it copies the font automatically from your MAC system.

Troubleshooting

Sometimes fonts are not valid or corrupt. Please use only valid fonts.