Red Robot Studios » cocoa http://www.redrobotstudios.com/blog Web development company specialising in Django and mobile development for clients around the world Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Glowing and soft shadowed text on iPhone http://www.redrobotstudios.com/blog/2010/04/29/create-glow-soft-shadow-text-on-iphone/ http://www.redrobotstudios.com/blog/2010/04/29/create-glow-soft-shadow-text-on-iphone/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:28:03 +0000 Andrew Gleave http://www.redrobotstudios.com/blog/?p=171 iPhone OS’s UILabel provides basic shadowing properties which can be used to create inset text effects and basic text shadows. However, the shadow has no blur and gives a sharp edge which is not particularly useful if you’re looking for a soft or subtle shadow.

Recently I needed to create a “glowing” text effect – essentially a soft shadow without the offset – so I wrote a simple UILabel subclass which let me specify an offset, colour and blur amount.

The screenshot shows a how the class can be used to create a glow effect but it’s equally easy to create soft shadows for your text.

You can find the source here on GitHub.

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