Ios Swift making font toggle bold, italic, boldItalic, normal without change other attributes

You say you want to preserve other traits, so you may need to modify some methods in your code:

func setBold() -> UIFont
{
    if isBold {
        return self
    } else {
        var symTraits = fontDescriptor().symbolicTraits
        symTraits.insert([.TraitBold])
        let fontDescriptorVar = fontDescriptor().fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits(symTraits)
        return UIFont(descriptor: fontDescriptorVar, size: 0)
    }
}

setItalic() and setBoldItalic() as well.

So, removeBold() should be something like this:

func removeBold()-> UIFont
{
    if !isBold {
        return self
    } else {
        var symTraits = fontDescriptor().symbolicTraits
        symTraits.remove([.TraitBold])
        let fontDescriptorVar = fontDescriptor().fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits(symTraits)
        return UIFont(descriptor: fontDescriptorVar, size: 0)
    }
}

removeItalic() would be similar.

But I'm not sure about setNormal(). You want remove all traits, or want to just remove italic and bold? Maybe you can do it yourself as you like.

These functions should have come inbuilt in Swift, but I wish they add them in upcoming versions.

This is for all who wants a simple solution for setting bold and italic... etc. in Swift and don't want to spend the whole night like me.

This has following features:

isBold

isItalic

setBold: Should preserve italic

setItalic: Should preserve bold

setBoldItalic

setNormal: remove both bold and italic

desetBold: Should preserve italic

desetItalic: Should preserve bold

toggleBold

toggleItalic

extension UIFont
{
    var isBold: Bool
    {
        return fontDescriptor().symbolicTraits.contains(.TraitBold)
    }

    var isItalic: Bool
    {
        return fontDescriptor().symbolicTraits.contains(.TraitItalic)
    }

    func setBoldFnc() -> UIFont
    {
        if(isBold)
        {
            return self
        }
        else
        {
            var fontAtrAry = fontDescriptor().symbolicTraits
            fontAtrAry.insert([.TraitBold])
            let fontAtrDetails = fontDescriptor().fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits(fontAtrAry)
            return UIFont(descriptor: fontAtrDetails, size: 0)
        }
    }

    func setItalicFnc()-> UIFont
    {
        if(isItalic)
        {
            return self
        }
        else
        {
            var fontAtrAry = fontDescriptor().symbolicTraits
            fontAtrAry.insert([.TraitItalic])
            let fontAtrDetails = fontDescriptor().fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits(fontAtrAry)
            return UIFont(descriptor: fontAtrDetails, size: 0)
        }
    }

    func setBoldItalicFnc()-> UIFont
    {
        return setBoldFnc().setItalicFnc()
    }

    func detBoldFnc() -> UIFont
    {
        if(!isBold)
        {
            return self
        }
        else
        {
            var fontAtrAry = fontDescriptor().symbolicTraits
            fontAtrAry.remove([.TraitBold])
            let fontAtrDetails = fontDescriptor().fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits(fontAtrAry)
            return UIFont(descriptor: fontAtrDetails, size: 0)
        }
    }

    func detItalicFnc()-> UIFont
    {
        if(!isItalic)
        {
            return self
        }
        else
        {
            var fontAtrAry = fontDescriptor().symbolicTraits
            fontAtrAry.remove([.TraitItalic])
            let fontAtrDetails = fontDescriptor().fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits(fontAtrAry)
            return UIFont(descriptor: fontAtrDetails, size: 0)
        }
    }

    func SetNormalFnc()-> UIFont
    {
        return detbBoldFnc().detbItalicFnc()
    }

    func toggleBoldFnc()-> UIFont
    {
        if(isBold)
        {
            return detbBoldFnc()
        }
        else
        {
            return setBoldFnc()
        }
    }

    func toggleItalicFnc()-> UIFont
    {
        if(isItalic)
        {
            return detbItalicFnc()
        }
        else
        {
            return setItalicFnc()
        }
    }
}

Swift 3.1

extension UIFont{
var isBold: Bool
{
    return fontDescriptor.symbolicTraits.contains(.traitBold)
}

var isItalic: Bool
{
    return fontDescriptor.symbolicTraits.contains(.traitItalic)
}

func setBold() -> UIFont
{
    if(isBold)
    {
        return self
    }
    else
    {
        var fontAtrAry = fontDescriptor.symbolicTraits
        fontAtrAry.insert([.traitBold])
        let fontAtrDetails = fontDescriptor.withSymbolicTraits(fontAtrAry)
        return UIFont(descriptor: fontAtrDetails!, size: pointSize)
    }
}

func setItalic()-> UIFont
{
    if(isItalic)
    {
        return self
    }
    else
    {
        var fontAtrAry = fontDescriptor.symbolicTraits
        fontAtrAry.insert([.traitItalic])
        let fontAtrDetails = fontDescriptor.withSymbolicTraits(fontAtrAry)
        return UIFont(descriptor: fontAtrDetails!, size: pointSize)
    }
}
func desetBold() -> UIFont
{
    if(!isBold)
    {
        return self
    }
    else
    {
        var fontAtrAry = fontDescriptor.symbolicTraits
        fontAtrAry.remove([.traitBold])
        let fontAtrDetails = fontDescriptor.withSymbolicTraits(fontAtrAry)
        return UIFont(descriptor: fontAtrDetails!, size: pointSize)
    }
}

func desetItalic()-> UIFont
{
    if(!isItalic)
    {
        return self
    }
    else
    {
        var fontAtrAry = fontDescriptor.symbolicTraits
        fontAtrAry.remove([.traitItalic])
        let fontAtrDetails = fontDescriptor.withSymbolicTraits(fontAtrAry)
        return UIFont(descriptor: fontAtrDetails!, size: pointSize)
    }
}
}