For reasons that would require a lot of explaining, I need to use the built-in iOS and Android system fonts for an app, Without having those fonts as part of the app itself. I managed to find this, which works quite well aside from the 4 year old NGUI portion no longer compiling against current NGUI...
https://github.com/imkira/unity-sysfont/tree/unity4xSo we can attach a SysFont component to a gameObject at runtime on the device, and properly use any iOS fonts that exist. Looks really crisp too! The problem is that we need to do per-word highlighting within a string, which this does not support.
I've been unable to find anything concrete about NGUI's support for these system fonts, so I suspect it is not possible, but figured I'd at least ask if it might be supported in the future? Seems like quite a neat feature for a wide range of uses, no?
