Changing font in UITabBarItem

Question

Hi I have this code and it doesn't work, what am I doing wrong?

- (void)viewDidLoad
{    
    [self.tabBarItem setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIFont fontWithName:@"AmericanTypewriter" size:20.0f], UITextAttributeFont, nil] forState:UIControlStateDisabled];
}

BTW that's not the only thing in my viewDidLoad but I just wanted to show you guys thats where I put it.

Solution 1

As per: How to change the Color of text in UITabBarItem in iOS 5

It looks like the solution may be sending the message to the appearance proxy, instead of one item:

(Deprecated in iOS 7.0+)

[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{UITextAttributeFont: [UIFont fontWithName:@"AmericanTypewriter" size:20.0f]} forState:UIControlStateNormal];

For iOS 7.0+ use:

[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont fontWithName:@"AmericanTypewriter" size:20.0f]} forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Solution 2

Swift way, for lazies:

UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(10)], forState: .normal)
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(10)], forState: .selected)

Solution 3

Swift 4.1 and custom font

UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "Montserrat-Medium", size: 11)], for: .normal)
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "Montserrat-Medium", size: 11)], for: .selected)

Solution 4

Swift 3

UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "OpenSans", size: 10)!], for: .normal)

Solution 5

Swift 4

UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont.tabbar], for: .normal)

View more solutions

Comments

[Paresh Navadiya]

change forstate:UIControlStateNormal

[sam_smith]

Not explicitly mentioned here. You can put this code in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions function in the app delegate to set it for the app

[Reinhold]

That worked for me in swift: UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttr‌​ibuteName: UIFont(name: "AmericanTypewriter", size: 20.0)] as [NSObject : AnyObject!], forState: UIControlState.Normal)

[DawnSong]

NSFontAttributeName for iOS7+, and UITextAttributeFont for iOS6-

[Iulian Onofrei]

@{NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont fontWithName:@"AmericanTypewriter" size:20.0f]} for 2015.

[AydinAngouti]

This doesn't change the font for me for .selected state.

[Timur Bernikovich]

@AbbasAngouti for changing font is selected state you should use something like this: stackoverflow.com/a/47529912/1980246

[Beyond Chao]

change different font for Selected state is no effect

[Chris Trahey]

@BeyondChao it might be worth asking a fresh question (or searching differently) as this answer is now over 6 years old! Good luck!

[PhoenixB]

Update, as of iOS 15, if the UITabBar uses UITabBarItemAppearance(), it will override any fonts set in the UITabBarItem.appearance() setting