Changing UINavigationBar font in Swift

Question

I have a UINavigationBar with a title in the middle. I have added a custom font ("Comic_Andy.ttf") to my app (I have checked info.plist to make sure it's listed, and I have checked the Copy Bundle Resources to make sure it has been added), and I would like the title of the UINavigationBar to be displayed in that font. From what I can gather it seems as though I'm supposed to use this in my ViewController:

myNavigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Comic_Andy", size: 22)]

I placed that method in the viewDidLoad function of the ViewController.
I have also tried this in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions function of the AppDelegate:

UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Comic_Andy", size: 22)]

I am programming in Swift, in XCode 6 Beta 6. Many resources regarding this task have mentioned using a method called setTitleTextAttributes, which is nowhere to be seen. I can't figure it out for the life of me - I've probably spent close to 3 hours on it by now - I have checked every StackOverflow answer, every website, so please do not mark this as a duplicate.

Many thanks in advance!

Solution 1

Well, it took me the whole day, but I got it. My first problem was I didn't even have a NavigationController, so once I got that all sorted out this is what finally fixed it. Turns out you call the font like this: Comic Andy instead of Comic_Andy. EVEN THOUGH the font is referred to throughout the entire package as Comic_Andy, and the file is named Comic_Andy, you still use Comic Andy.

Solution 2

Instead of using myNavigationBar, try navigationController.navigationBar in the ViewController viewDidLoad function. It worked for me.

navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Comic_Andy", size: 22)]

If this doesn't work, try using the .ttf suffix.

navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Comic_Andy.ttf", size: 22)]

Good luck!

Solution 3

Can also be done for all NavigationBars with UINavigationBar.appearance().

UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: Font.mediumFontName, size: 20)!]

Comments

[trumpeter201]

You should post this as an answer.

[esreli]

the font name and the file name are different! i've been there