How to change the font and text color of the title of UINavigationBar

Question

I want to be change the font of the title to Avenir, and I want to make it white. Here is my code in the viewDidLoad method:

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Answer 1

If you want the styles to be applied through out the whole app add these lines in the AppDelegate.m file.

NSShadow* shadow = [NSShadow new]; 
shadow.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, 0.0f); 
shadow.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor]; 

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes: @{
NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor],
NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont fontWithName:@"Kelvetica Nobis" size:20.0f],
NSShadowAttributeName: shadow 
}];

NSForegroundColorAttributeName sets the Font color.

NSFontAttributeName sets a custom font face to the title text.

NSShadowAttributeName applies a nice shadow effect to the text, you can remove this part if you want.

Also in advance, you can add these line to hide the text that comes up in back button in action bar when you navigate to another view within the navigation controller.

[[UIBarButtonItem appearance]
     setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment:UIOffsetMake(-1000, -1000)
     forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

Hope this help your question :)

Answer 2

In Swift 5:

let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
    appearance.titleTextAttributes = [
        NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white,
        NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 20)!]
    appearance.largeTitleTextAttributes = [
        NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white,
        NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 35)!]

Code here are for Title and Large title. you can also remove custom font if you want system font.

Answer 3

Your code is OK you just need to set all of titleTextAttributes in one line:

UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white , NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 17)!]

Answer 4

In case someone needs this in Swift 4:

let navBarAppearance = UINavigationBar.appearance()
navBarAppearance.barTintColor = .red
navBarAppearance.tintColor = .white
navBarAppearance.titleTextAttributes = [
        NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white,
        NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 20)!]

Answer 5

I use this:

Update, it seems this is needed as well:

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle       = UIBarStyle.Black // I then set the color using:

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor   = UIColor(red: 204/255, green: 47/255, blue: 40/255, alpha: 1.0) // a lovely red

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor() // for titles, buttons, etc.

    let navigationTitleFont = UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 20)!

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: navigationTitleFont]

Answer 6

I would just create an outlet and do this:

@IBOutlet weak var navigationBar: UINavigationBar!
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.

    navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 30)!]
}