Change font size of UISegmentedControl

Question

Can anyone please tell me how can I change the font type and size of UISegmentedControl?

Answer 1

Swift 4

let font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
UISegmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: font], for: .normal)

Answer 2

this is for objective c add your segmented control name in place of mysegmentedcontrol

UIFont *font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:11.0f];

NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:font
                                                            forKey:UITextAttributeFont];

[mySegmentedcontrol setTitleTextAttributes:attributes                                    forState:UIControlStateNormal];

hope it helps

Answer 3

I ran into the same issue. This code sets the font size for the entire segmented control. Something similar might work for setting the font type. Note that this is only available for iOS5+

Obj C:

UIFont *font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:12.0f];
NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:font
                                                       forKey:NSFontAttributeName];
[segmentedControl setTitleTextAttributes:attributes 
                                forState:UIControlStateNormal];

EDIT: UITextAttributeFont has been deprecated - use NSFontAttributeName instead.

EDIT #2: For Swift 4 NSFontAttributeName has been changed to NSAttributedStringKey.font.

Swift 5:

let font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.font: font], for: .normal)

Swift 4:

let font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.font: font],
                                        for: .normal)

Swift 3:

let font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: font],
                                        for: .normal)

Swift 2.2:

let font = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(16)
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: font], 
    forState: UIControlState.Normal)

Thanks to the Swift implementations from @audrey-gordeev

Answer 4

Daniel pointed me to correct way. I used it like this-

float scaleFactor = 0.8f;

UISegmentedControl *segmentedControl = [[UISegmentedControl alloc]
initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 70, 300/scaleFactor,35)];

[segmentedControl insertSegmentWithTitle:@"..." atIndex:0 animated:NO];
[segmentedControl insertSegmentWithTitle:@"..." atIndex:1 animated:NO];
[segmentedControl insertSegmentWithTitle:@"..." atIndex:2 animated:NO];

segmentedControl.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(scaleFactor, 1);
CGPoint segmentedControlCenter = segmentedControl.center;
segmentedControlCenter.x = self.center.x;
segmentedControl.center = segmentedControlCenter;

Answer 5

Another option is to apply a transform to the control. However, it will scale down everything including the control borders.

segmentedControl.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(.6f, .6f);

Answer 6

// Set font-size and font-femily the way you want
UIFont *objFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"DroidSans" size:18.0f];

// Add font object to Dictionary
NSDictionary *dictAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:objFont forKey:NSFontAttributeName];

// Set dictionary to the titleTextAttributes
[yourSegment setTitleTextAttributes:dictAttributes forState:UIControlStateNormal];

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