When building views using SwiftUI, the Text type can be used to define various strings that are going to be displayed within our UI. However, SwiftUI does not include a built-in equivalent to NSAttributedString, which is commonly used to style text in various ways when using frameworks like UIKit and AppKit.

So while a Text value can be styled as a whole — using modifiers like bold() and italic() — at first it might seem like we need to place multiple Text instances into something like an HStack in order to create a text that has multiple mixed styles:

struct PromotionView: View {
    var productName: String

    var body: some View {
        HStack(spacing: 5) {
            Text("Check out")
            Text(productName).bold()
            Text(",")
            Text("it’s amazing!").italic()
        }
    }
}

However, while the above approach might work initially, it does have a few downsides. Not only do we have to manually manage line breaks, but we also have to decide what exact spacing to use between each text component — which gets quite complicated when we start considering things like dynamic text sizes and accessibility.

Thankfully, there is a much better way to accomplish something like the above, and that’s to simply concatenate multiple Text values using the + operator — just like when dealing with normal String values:

struct PromotionView: View {
    var productName: String

    var body: some View {
        Text("Check out ") +
        Text(productName).bold() +
        Text(", ") +
        Text("it’s amazing!").italic()
    }
}

Now, we no longer have to manually manage the layout of our text, and we get complete support for all sorts of dynamic text features for free, all while still being able to render text with mixed styling within our UI.