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title: Applying Apple News Format Fonts
framework: applenews
role: article
role_heading: Article
path: applenews/applying-apple-news-format-fonts
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# Applying Apple News Format Fonts

Choose a font family for Apple News Format that’s supported in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

## Overview

Overview Fonts determine the look of text in your article. Within font families, the properties fontWeight, fontWidth, and fontStyle provide variations on the font for bolder or lighter, condensed or expanded, and regular or italicized text. To specify a font variant in Apple News Format, you can also use an explicit font variant’s PostScript name (listed in parentheses) in a fontName property without style modifiers (see TextStyle). For information about using fonts in Apple News Format, see Defining and Applying Text Styles. Choose a Font Family The following table lists font families for Apple News Format that are supported in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. important: Some font families may not support all unicode values.  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  Apply the Fonts to Your Article The following example code shows how to apply the Arial font family to your article. {   "sample": {     "textStyles": {       "default-tag-abbr": {         "fontFamily": "Arial",         "fontWeight": "bold",         "fontStyle": "italic"       },       "default-tag-title": {         "fontName": "Arial-BoldItalicMT",       }     },     "components": [       {         "role": "body",         "format": "html",         "text": "<p>The <abbr>UFO</abbr> is an <title>Unidentified Flying Object</title>.</p>"       }     ]   } }

## See Also

### Text Styles

- [Defining and Applying Text Styles](applenews/defining-and-applying-text-styles.md)
- [TextStyle](applenewsformat/textstyle.md)
- [ComponentTextStyle](applenewsformat/componenttextstyle.md)
- [DropCapStyle](applenewsformat/dropcapstyle.md)
- [ListItemStyle](applenewsformat/listitemstyle.md)
- [InlineTextStyle](applenewsformat/inlinetextstyle.md)