Dynamic Type with Custom Font automatically applied on a subclassed UILabel

DyanmicTypeWithCustomFontExample.swift

// With info gathered at https://stackoverflow.com/a/42235227/789720
import UIKit

// MARK: - Use
// set label to be of class MJLabel programmatically or in storyboards
// set the label to be of preferred dynamic type Title 1|Title 2|...|body|...

// MARK: - "Global" settings
struct MJBranding {
    static let fontFamily: String = "Party LET"
}

// MARK: - UILabel
class MJLabel: UILabel {

    required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)!
        self.commonInit()

    }

    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        self.commonInit()
    }

    fileprivate func commonInit() {
        let textStyle = self.font.fontDescriptor.object(forKey: UIFontDescriptor.AttributeName.textStyle) as? UIFontTextStyle ?? UIFontTextStyle.body
        
        self.font = UIFont.preferredCustomFont(forTextStyle: textStyle)
    }

}

// MARK: - UIFont extension
extension UIFont {

    private struct CustomFont {
        static var fontFamily = MJBranding.fontFamily
    }

    /// Returns a bold version of `self`
    public var bolded: UIFont {
        return fontDescriptor.withSymbolicTraits(.traitBold)
            .map { UIFont(descriptor: $0, size: 0) } ?? self
    }

    /// Returns an italic version of `self`
    public var italicized: UIFont {
        return fontDescriptor.withSymbolicTraits(.traitItalic)
            .map { UIFont(descriptor: $0, size: 0) } ?? self
    }

    /// Returns a scaled version of `self`
    func scaled(scaleFactor: CGFloat) -> UIFont {
        let newDescriptor = fontDescriptor.withSize(fontDescriptor.pointSize * scaleFactor)
        return UIFont(descriptor: newDescriptor, size: 0)
    }

    class func preferredCustomFont(forTextStyle textStyle: UIFontTextStyle) -> UIFont {
        // we are using the UIFontDescriptor which is less expensive than creating an intermediate UIFont
        let systemFontDescriptor = UIFontDescriptor.preferredFontDescriptor(withTextStyle: textStyle)

        let customFontDescriptor = UIFontDescriptor.init(fontAttributes: [
            UIFontDescriptor.AttributeName.family: CustomFont.fontFamily,
            UIFontDescriptor.AttributeName.size: systemFontDescriptor.pointSize // use the font size of the default dynamic font
            ])

        // return font of new family with same size as the preferred system font
        return UIFont(descriptor: customFontDescriptor, size: 0)
    }

}

// MARK: - UIFontDescriptor
extension UIFontDescriptor {

    private struct SubStruct {
        static var preferredFontName: String = MJBranding.fontFamily
    }

    static let fontSizeTable: [UIFontTextStyle: [UIContentSizeCategory: CGFloat]] = [
        .headline: [
            .accessibilityExtraExtraExtraLarge: 23,
            .accessibilityExtraExtraLarge: 23,
            .accessibilityExtraLarge: 23,
            .accessibilityLarge: 23,
            .accessibilityMedium: 23,
            .extraExtraExtraLarge: 23,
            .extraExtraLarge: 21,
            .extraLarge: 19,
            .large: 17,
            .medium: 16,
            .small: 15,
            .extraSmall: 14
        ],
        .subheadline: [
            .accessibilityExtraExtraExtraLarge: 21,
            .accessibilityExtraExtraLarge: 21,
            .accessibilityExtraLarge: 21,
            .accessibilityLarge: 21,
            .accessibilityMedium: 21,
            .extraExtraExtraLarge: 21,
            .extraExtraLarge: 19,
            .extraLarge: 17,
            .large: 15,
            .medium: 14,
            .small: 13,
            .extraSmall: 12
        ],
        .body: [
            .accessibilityExtraExtraExtraLarge: 53,
            .accessibilityExtraExtraLarge: 47,
            .accessibilityExtraLarge: 40,
            .accessibilityLarge: 33,
            .accessibilityMedium: 28,
            .extraExtraExtraLarge: 23,
            .extraExtraLarge: 21,
            .extraLarge: 19,
            .large: 17,
            .medium: 16,
            .small: 15,
            .extraSmall: 14
        ],
        .caption1: [
            .accessibilityExtraExtraExtraLarge: 18,
            .accessibilityExtraExtraLarge: 18,
            .accessibilityExtraLarge: 18,
            .accessibilityLarge: 18,
            .accessibilityMedium: 18,
            .extraExtraExtraLarge: 18,
            .extraExtraLarge: 16,
            .extraLarge: 14,
            .large: 12,
            .medium: 11,
            .small: 11,
            .extraSmall: 11
        ],
        .caption2: [
            .accessibilityExtraExtraExtraLarge: 17,
            .accessibilityExtraExtraLarge: 17,
            .accessibilityExtraLarge: 17,
            .accessibilityLarge: 17,
            .accessibilityMedium: 17,
            .extraExtraExtraLarge: 17,
            .extraExtraLarge: 15,
            .extraLarge: 13,
            .large: 11,
            .medium: 11,
            .small: 11,
            .extraSmall: 11
        ],
        .footnote: [
            .accessibilityExtraExtraExtraLarge: 19,
            .accessibilityExtraExtraLarge: 19,
            .accessibilityExtraLarge: 19,
            .accessibilityLarge: 19,
            .accessibilityMedium: 19,
            .extraExtraExtraLarge: 19,
            .extraExtraLarge: 17,
            .extraLarge: 15,
            .large: 13,
            .medium: 12,
            .small: 12,
            .extraSmall: 12
        ]
        // , ...
    ]

    final class func preferredDescriptor(textStyle: UIFontTextStyle) -> UIFontDescriptor {
        let contentSize = UIApplication.shared.preferredContentSizeCategory
        let style = fontSizeTable[textStyle]!
        return UIFontDescriptor(name: SubStruct.preferredFontName, size: style[contentSize]!)
    }
}