How to adjust font size to fit height and width of UILabel

Question

I have a square UILabel (in yellow color) which contains a single letter.

I have used the following code from this SO answer to adjust the font size such that it fits into the UILabel:

letterLabel.font = UIFont(name: letterLabel.font.fontName, size: 100)
letterLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
letterLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.Center

As apparent in the screenshot, the font size is according to the width. But since the text is only one letter, hence we also need to look at the height. How can we adjust the font size such that height is also within the UILabel?

I face exactly the same situation. Have you found the solution? If it can be done with IB, that would be twice better! — Accid Bright
– Accid Bright, Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 12:51

MarcioElizeu · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-22 12:33:09Z

I did not find any simple solution so I made this extension:

extension UILabel {
    func setFontSizeToFill() {
        let frameSize  = self.bounds.size
        guard frameSize.height>0 && frameSize.width>0 && self.text != nil else {return}

        var fontPoints = self.font.pointSize
        var fontSize   = self.text!.size(withAttributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.font: self.font.withSize(fontPoints)])
        var increment  = CGFloat(0)

        if fontSize.width > frameSize.width || fontSize.height > frameSize.height {
            increment = -1
        } else {
            increment = 1
        }

        while true {
            fontSize = self.text!.size(withAttributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.font: self.font.withSize(fontPoints+increment)])
            if increment < 0 {
                if fontSize.width < frameSize.width && fontSize.height < frameSize.height {
                    fontPoints += increment
                    break
                }
            } else {
                if fontSize.width > frameSize.width || fontSize.height > frameSize.height {
                    break
                }
            }
            fontPoints += increment
        }

        self.font = self.font.withSize(fontPoints)
    }
}

infiniteLoop · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-20 16:30:09Z

I needed only one letter to be shown in label (name initial), so the requirement was clear, it has to scale to fit the height.

Solution:

class AnyView : UIView{
     private var nameLabel:UILabel! = nil

     override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        //Considering the nameLabel has been already created and added as subview with all the constraint set
        nameLabel.font = nameLabel.font.withSize(nameLabel.bounds.height * 0.6/*The factor can be adjusted as per need*/)
    }
}

Habin Lama · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-10 04:58:28Z

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I have tested your code works fine for me.

I think cell height is the problem and I haven't give cell height. Try removing cells height

answered Apr 10, 2019 at 4:58

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Gal Marom · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-22 17:44:47Z

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Try [label sizeToFit] or [label sizeThatFits:(CGSize)]

answered Jan 22, 2016 at 17:44

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Kartick Vaddadi Over a year ago

This adjusts the size of the label to fit the text, not the opposite, as was asked.

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