On Mar 23, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Eric Gorr wrote:

I found this old thread:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2007/Jan/msg00181.html

which discusses the same problem I am experiencing. I need an italic version of Lucida Grande, which is the font currently returned by labelFontOfSize.

But, of course, I need a generic solution since labelFontOfSize may not always return Lucida Grande. Now, I could select a font like Helvetica Neue which has all of the various traits I need, but I would rather use the font returned by labelFontOfSize since I am drawing a label.

The solution proposed in the thread was to just add NSObliquenessAttributeName, which is easy enough, but I am not sure what the appropriate angle should be.

Is there a standard angle which should be used in this situation?

Well, actually, considering that using NSObliquenessAttributeName caused the text to look blury, I switched to userFontOfSize which provides a font with a clean italic version.

If anyone has a better solution, I would be interested.

I filed bug report rdar://6715356 requesting that labelFontOfSize return a font with a clean italic and bold-italic variant and suggest others do the same if they want this as well.

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