How to add custom font in Xamarin.Forms Calendar (SfCalendar)?

You can customize the month view with a custom font family by using the  DayHeaderFontFamily, HeaderFontFamily, DayCellFontFamily  property of MonthViewSettings  in  Xamarin.Forms Calendar.

The following steps describe how to add a custom font file in the platform-specific projects.

Android

Add a custom font file in the Assets folder and set Build Action to AndroidAsset for the font file.

iOS

STEP1: Add a custom font file in the Resources folder and set Build Action to BundleResource. Then, ensure that the copy to output directory is set to AlwaysCopy.

STEP2: Add a custom font file name in the info.plist file as demonstrated in the following code sample.

<dict>……
        <key>UIAppFonts</key>
        <array>
            <string>Lobster-Regular.ttf</string>
        </array>
……</dict>

UWP

Add a custom font file in the Assets folder and set Build Action to Content.

XAML

Set custom font for calendar month view using font family properties.

<calendar:SfCalendar x:Name="calendar"
                             DataSource="{Binding Appointments}">
        <calendar:SfCalendar.MonthViewSettings>
            <calendar:MonthViewSettings>
                <calendar:MonthViewSettings.HeaderFontFamily>
                    <OnPlatform x:TypeArguments="x:String" iOS="Lobster-Regular" Android="Lobster-Regular.ttf" WinPhone="Assets/Lobster-Regular.ttf#Lobster" />
                </calendar:MonthViewSettings.HeaderFontFamily>
                <calendar:MonthViewSettings.DayHeaderFontFamily>
                    <OnPlatform x:TypeArguments="x:String" iOS="Lobster-Regular" Android="Lobster-Regular.ttf" WinPhone="Assets/Lobster-Regular.ttf#Lobster" />
                </calendar:MonthViewSettings.DayHeaderFontFamily>
                <calendar:MonthViewSettings.DayCellFontFamily>
                    <OnPlatform x:TypeArguments="x:String" iOS="Lobster-Regular" Android="Lobster-Regular.ttf" WinPhone="Assets/Lobster-Regular.ttf#Lobster" />
                </calendar:MonthViewSettings.DayCellFontFamily>
            </calendar:MonthViewSettings>
        </calendar:SfCalendar.MonthViewSettings>
        <calendar:SfCalendar.BindingContext>
            <local:ViewModel/>
        </calendar:SfCalendar.BindingContext>
</calendar:SfCalendar>

Output

View sample in GitHub

Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed learning about how to add custom font in Xamarin.Forms Calendar (SfCalendar).

You can refer to our Xamarin.Forms Calendar feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications. You can also explore our Xamarin.Forms Calendar example to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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