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  1. ahknight created this gist Aug 27, 2014.
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    @interface UIFont (Sanity)
    +(UIFont*)preferredFontForTextStyle:(NSString *)style withFontFamily:(NSString*)family;
    @end

    @implementation UIFont (Sanity)

    +(UIFont*)preferredFontForTextStyle:(NSString*)style withFontFamily:(NSString*)family
    {
    UIFont *font = nil;
    UIFontDescriptor *descriptor = nil;

    // Font family and size
    descriptor = [UIFontDescriptor preferredFontDescriptorWithTextStyle:style];
    descriptor = [UIFontDescriptor fontDescriptorWithName:family size:descriptor.pointSize];

    // Font traits for special styles.
    if ([style isEqual:UIFontTextStyleHeadline]) {
    descriptor = [descriptor fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits:UIFontDescriptorTraitBold];
    } else if ([@[UIFontTextStyleCaption1, UIFontTextStyleCaption2] containsObject:style]) {
    descriptor = [descriptor fontDescriptorWithSymbolicTraits:UIFontDescriptorTraitItalic];
    }

    font = [UIFont fontWithDescriptor:descriptor size:descriptor.pointSize];

    return font;
    }

    @end