Cell Based Table Approach
You cannot do this with a table view on a cell, because the standard cell NSImageCell and NSTextCell can only display image or text. You can make your lower subclass NSCell to make a cell that accepts both the image and the text, for example Show icon and text in one NSTableView cell . To display different fonts and colors, you need to use, for example, NSAttributedString (did not check this Xcode, so there may be a few errors, but this gives you an idea),
NSString *redWord = @"Hello"; NSString *greenWord = @"World"; NSString *message = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", redWord, greenWord]; NSMutableAttributedString *text = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithAttributedString:message]; [text addAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName value:[NSColor redColor] range:NSMakeRange(0, [redWord length])]; [text addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:[NSFont fontWithName:@"Arial Italic" size:12]; range:NSMakeRange(0, [redWord length])]; [text addAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName value:[NSColor greenColor] range:NSMakeRange([redWord length] + 1, [greenWord length])]; [text addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:[NSFont fontWithName:@"Times Bold" size:12]; range:NSMakeRange([redWord length] + 1, [greenWord length])];
Presentation-based table view approach
Display a table view as NSTableCellView tables in its table cells. The standard NSTableCellView has an imageView and textField , so it will look perfect for your purpose. Just set the image view of the table cell to display the image, tableCellView.imageView.image = myImageset then set the text you want to display in the text box, tableCellView.textField.attributeStringValue = myAttributedString . Please note that you will have to use the attributed string to get different colors and fonts (see above).