How to set navigation bar font colour and size

Question

I have been trying to set both the font size and the font colour of the text in my navigation bar, however I have been having issues.

Basically what seems to be happening is my two lines of code overwrite each other and I can only get them to work on their own.

Here is my code:

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 30)]
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()]

What do I need to change so that I can change the font size and colour?

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 01 '14 at 04:01

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In swift Mandav's excellent answer could be implemented this way:

var attributes = [
    NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.greenColor(),
    NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 30)!
]
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = attributes

Note that the UIFont initializer returns an optional because it could fail to find the font, so an exclamation point is used.

edited Dec 01 '14 at 04:01

Jack Lawrence

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answered Sep 25 '14 at 22:38

Steve Rosenberg

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ahem, have you noticed the date of the answer? – Steve Rosenberg Nov 02 '14 at 03:14
Perfect!! worked on 9.2 like a charm :) happy to upvote – swiftBoy May 26 '16 at 13:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 02 '15 at 21:14

I came across this thread but I needed answer for Objective-c. I found out how to do this. Let me post it here in case other programmer runs into the same problem. For objective-c you can achieve that by setting attributes in NSDictionary like this.

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes: [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor whiteColor]                                                ,NSForegroundColorAttributeName,                                                       [UIFont fontWithName:@"Avenir" size:30]                                                       , NSFontAttributeName, nil]];

How to set navigation bar font colour and size

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