How can I change the font color of a UIBarButton item?

Question

I want to change the color to red.

Solution 1

This question was answered here. Basically, you have to create a UIButton, configure it as you wish, and then initialize the Bar Button Item with the UIButton as a custom view.

Solution 2

I found a simpler way to just change the color of title: iOS7:

UIBarButtonItem *button = 
 [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Title" 
                                  style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered 
                                 target:nil 
                                 action:nil];
[button setTitleTextAttributes:
          [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: 
               [UIColor redColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName,nil] 
                                            forState:UIControlStateNormal];

and prior iOS7:

UIBarButtonItem *button = 
  [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Title" 
                                   style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered 
                                  target:nil 
                                  action:nil];
[button setTitleTextAttributes:
          [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: 
               [UIColor redColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,nil] 
                                    forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Solution 3

There are Two ways to change the color of the Text displayed UIBarButtonITem.

1)

[barButtonITem setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

2) or you can you any UIColor class method. this is really efficient solution.Althought for iOS 7 you can use NSForegroundColorAttributeName and can use

barButtonItem setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor clearColor],NSForegroundColorAttributeName, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Solution 4

On similar note from Guvvy Ava you can change font size like

[buttonItem setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold" size:26.0], UITextAttributeFont,nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Solution 5

swift version 4.0 or later

barButtonITem.tintColor = UIColor.red   // for textColor change

if want to change font as well as text color use the following code

barButtonITem.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor :UIColor.red,NSAttributedStringKey.font:UIFont.init(name:"Avenir", size:15.0)], for: UIControlState.normal)

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Comments

[memmons]

possible duplicate of UIBarButtonItem with color?

[gschandler]

Certainly a good solution if you are iOS 5.0 or greater. OP: Check out UIBarItem.h for details.

[AdamM]

I have been searching for ages to find out how to change text color, thanks a lot!!. Luckily majority of phones are on IOS5 now so this is not really a concern

[Mirko Brunner]

i have fixed this answer for iOS7

[Robert J. Clegg]

Works in iOS7. Thanks dude!

[Anand Gautam]

Thanks @Gavy, it's working fine. Can you tell me how to change the font of title?

[Gavy]

@AnandGautam You can use the UITextAttributeFont attribute to change the font.