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Rehaan Advani
Rehaan Advani

Reputation: 975

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

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:

UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 20)!]
    UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()]

This code only changes the color of the title, not the font. Additionally, I tried implementing this in the App Delegate File, but that did not work.

Here is what my UINavigationBar looks like:enter image description here

I want the title to have a font of Avenir as well. How do I achieve this?

Upvotes: 32

Views: 34056

Answers (7)

Fred Faust
Fred Faust

Reputation: 6790

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]

Upvotes: 39

Waxhaw
Waxhaw

Reputation: 829

I'm updating this for iOS 15. If you have a scroll view that pushes something behind the Nav Bar it WILL change the NavigationBar background if you do NOT set "navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance".

So here is a simple config to set it for ALL of your views in ViewDidLoad of your main ViewController.

        // Set top Nav Bar behavior for ALL of app
    let standardAppearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
    
    // Title font color
    standardAppearance.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
    
    // prevent Nav Bar color change on scroll view push behind NavBar
    standardAppearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground()
    standardAppearance.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue
    
    
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = standardAppearance
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = standardAppearance

So the 'scrollEdgeAppearance' you can set title color, tint, NavBar color and the works. The standardAppearance is what shows at loading.

Took me a while to figure this one out for iOS15.

You're welcome! :-)

Upvotes: 4

Fabrice Etiennette
Fabrice Etiennette

Reputation: 61

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.

Upvotes: 5

algrid
algrid

Reputation: 5954

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)!]

Upvotes: 16

Milad Faridnia
Milad Faridnia

Reputation: 9477

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)!]

Upvotes: 6

Laky
Laky

Reputation: 632

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 :)

Upvotes: 14

Volkodav
Volkodav

Reputation: 600

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)!]
}

Upvotes: 1

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