Font color for UILabel not changing

ios objective-c uilabel uistoryboard uifont

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Solution 1

Make sure your label's behavior like that. enter image description here

Solution 2

I encountered the same issue but it was cause by setting a custom color in the storyboard. Apparently you must have the color attribute set to default in order to change it programatically. I found this true with all UIViews.

Solution 3

I was trying change programtelly the textcolor of a UILabel in a UITabelViewCell in cellForRowAt. And the label just change the textcolor after being reloaded.

I could change the label textColor in the beggining after change the TEXTCOLOR IN STORYBOARD TO DEFAULT and i change it programatelly.

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user220201

Updated on June 22, 2022

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user220201 almost 2 years
I am trying to display numbers on a UILabel with a bold black font and size 50.

After some failed attempts I just realized that no matter what color I set the font to, it always gets set to lightGray. Is there something else I need to do other than the below?
```
[DisplayLabel setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:"HelveticaNeue-Bold"] size:50]];
DisplayLabel.textColor = [UIColor brownColor];
DisplayLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
```
I am adding the label using the storyboard to a view.
- almas over 9 years
  
  Does the alignment and font change though when you do it programmatically?
- user220201 over 9 years
  
  The font size and alignment definitely change programmatically. Its just the color that does not change.
user220201 over 9 years

Where do I find this? I cannot find it.
user220201 over 9 years

Found it. I just enabled the label programmatically. Worked!
Pylinux over 8 years

@user220201 how did you activate it programmatically?
nsantorello over 5 years

Thank you, what an odd issue... I don't think I'd ever have figured this out on my own!
DroidT over 5 years

No problem. Glad to save anyone the headache that I went through.
Peter Lapisu about 5 years

i suppouse thats some kind of bug, not a feature
StephenFeather about 5 years

Wow. I wasted so much time trying to get a label in a xib that we use over and over to change and it wouldn't. Thanks. Swift 4, Xcode Version 10.1 (10B61)
jaynp almost 5 years

Running into the same bug. I believe it doesn't affect Attributed Text Labels