Custom UIFont SwiftUI & Xcode 14.1

Question

First I am aware of the fact that questions like this have been asked before but having reviewed all of the answers I am still having issues.

I am writing my first project in SwiftUI using Xcode 14.1 and wanted to add a custom font. I first created a Fonts group within the project and added the.ttf files to the project using Add Files to "Project" ensuring that Copy items if needed was checked.

I then went and added the Fonts provided by application to the Custom iOS Target Properties and the array items for the font in this case Poppins so the values read Fonts/Poppins-Regular.ttf

    <key>UIAppFonts</key>
    <array>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-Black.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-BlackItalic.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-Bold.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-BoldItalic.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-ExtraBold.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-ExtraLight.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-ExtraLightItalic.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-Italic.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-Light.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-LightItalic.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-Medium.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-MediumItalic.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-Regular.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-SemiBold.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-SemiBoldItalic.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-Thin.ttf</string>
        <string>Fonts/Poppins-ThinItalic.ttf</string>
    </array>

However, when printing out my fonts in an init() method that calls this function within my App swift file:

    func printFonts() {
        let fontFamilyNames = UIFont.familyNames
        
        for familyName in fontFamilyNames {
            print("----------")
            print("Font Family Name -> [\(familyName)]")
            let names = UIFont.fontNames(forFamilyName: familyName)
            print("Font Names ==> [\(names)]")
        }
    }

It Doesn't output my custom font, equally when using the font in my view it doesn't render:

Text("Hello!")
    .font(Font.custom("Poppins-Regular", size: 18))

Interestingly the preview in Xcode doesn't work since adding this property to the Text in the view reporting the following error: Compiling failed: ambiguous use of 'font'

I have searched and searched and try a number of rabbit hole solutions can any one advise?

Answer 1

You don't need to include the group name in the font array, so just eg

<string>Poppins-Black.ttf</string>