I have a UIBarButtonItem
in my UIToolbar
titled
This is the right way: declare your barButtonItem (in this case rightBarButtonItem) and add it setTitleTextAttributes.
navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Go!", style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(yourFuncDestination))
after you can add title attributes
navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem?.setTitleTextAttributes([.font : UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 18, weight: .bold), .foregroundColor : UIColor.white], for: .normal)
you can change the size, the weight (.bold, .heavy, .regular etc.) and the color how you prefer... Hope this help :)
For those interested in using UIAppearance
to style their UIBarButtonItem
's fonts throughout the app, it can be accomplished using this line of code:
Objective C:
NSDictionary *barButtonAppearanceDict = @{NSFontAttributeName : [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Light" size:12.0], NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor]};
[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:barButtonAppearanceDict forState:UIControlStateNormal];
Swift 2.3:
UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(
[
NSFontAttributeName : UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-Light", size: 12)!,
NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.white
],
for: .normal)
Swift 3
UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(
[
NSFontAttributeName : UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-Light", size: 12)!,
NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.white,
], for: .normal)
Swift 4
UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(
[
NSAttributedStringKey.font : UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-Light", size: 12)!,
NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor : UIColor.white,
], for: .normal)
Or for a single UIBarButtonItem (not for all app wide), if you have a custom font for one button in particular:
Swift 3
let barButtonItem = UIBarButton()
barButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes([
NSFontAttributeName : UIFont(name: "FontAwesome", size: 26)!,
NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.white,
], for: .normal)
barButtonItem.title = "\u{f02a}"
Swift 4
let barButtonItem = UIBarButton()
barButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes([
NSAttributedStringKey.font : UIFont(name: "FontAwesome", size: 26)!,
NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor : UIColor.white,
], for: .normal)
barButtonItem.title = "\u{f02a}"
Of course, you can change the font & size to whatever you'd like. I prefer to put this code in the AppDelegate.m
file in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
section.
Available attributes (just add them to the NSDictionary
):
NSFontAttributeName
: Change font with a UIFont
NSForegroundColorAttributeName
: Change color with a UIColor
NSShadow
: Add a drop shadow (see NSShadow class reference)(Updated for iOS7+)
In Swift you would do this as followed:
backButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes([
NSFontAttributeName : UIFont(name: "Helvetica-Bold", size: 26)!,
NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.blackColor()],
forState: UIControlState.Normal)
In Swift 4, you can change the font and colour of UIBarButtonItem
by adding the following code.
addTodoBarButton.setTitleTextAttributes(
[
NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-Bold", size: 17)!,
NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.black
], for: .normal)