How to set a font for a UI Text in Unity 3D programmatically

Question

in my game I have a UI Text that I've called "label", and I want to set its font programmatically. I've tried to do this:

label.GetComponent<Text>().font="Arial";

I get an error because the font attribute doesn't want a string but a Font. So how can I set the font to Arial programmatically?

score 24 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 16 '15 at 16:55

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This works:

label.GetComponent<Text> ().font = Resources.GetBuiltinResource(typeof(Font), "Arial.ttf") as Font;

answered Jun 16 '15 at 16:55

nix86

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Can also be simplified to: Resources.GetBuiltinResource("Arial.ttf") – Whyser Oct 01 '15 at 09:02

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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try to create a public variable of type Font in the editor.

public Font myNewFont;

then you can do something like

label.GetComponent<Text>().font= myNewFont;

Not able to test it, but I think it should work, here's a very similar question... How to change Font type in Unity?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

Community

answered Jun 16 '15 at 16:46

Roberto Guajardo

But I want to use Arial. Not my font – nix86 Jun 16 '15 at 16:48
I think arial is the default value, but if not.. you can assign the font Arial in the myNewFotn variable or do : `label.GetComponent().font = Resources.GetBuiltinResource(typeof(Font), "Arial.ttf") as Font ` this is described in the other post that I've shared with you – Roberto Guajardo Jun 16 '15 at 16:51
By default the font is none – nix86 Jun 16 '15 at 16:56

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