Adding Emboss to a UILabel in a navigationItem.titleView (as seen with navigationItem.title)

Question

I\'m trying to mimic the default emboss that automatically gets applied to navigationItem.title, as well as many other UIKit controls.

As seen in this screenshot\'s

Answer 1

Yeh thanks! I just figured it out:

where postTitle is set to a white colour, i just added a darkGray shadow with a vertical offset of 1px.

[postTitle setShadowColor:[UIColor darkGrayColor]];

[postTitle setShadowOffset:CGSizeMake(0, -1)];

Looks exactly like anything you'd put in a .title :)

Answer 2

shadow and shadowOffset are what you're looking for I think. Set those properties on the label and it should do what you want.

Answer 3

A white shadow and a plus one instead a minus one as offset gives that depressed embossed look.