iOS 13 UIBarButtonItem Font

Question

Wanting to have my own custom font on navigation bar back button items, This worked for me in the past:

    let barButtonAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor : UIColor.pink,
                               NSAttributedString.Key.font : UIFont(name: "My-Awesome-Font", size: 18)!]
    UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(barButtonAttributes, for: .normal)
    UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(barButtonAttributes, for: .highlighted)

With iOS 13, this has stopped working for me. Is there a work around?

does this do the trick: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57958270/6459929 ? — Itamar Manor, Sep 16 '19 at 19:33

Ash Cameron · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-24T17:51:07.050

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You'll want to look into the new UINavigationBarAppearance classes in iOS 13.

In your case:

let style = UINavigationBarAppearance()
style.buttonAppearance.normal.titleTextAttributes = [.font: #YOURFONT#]
style.doneButtonAppearance.normal.titleTextAttributes = [.font: #YOURFONT#]

navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = style
// You may want these as well:
navigationController?.navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = ...
navigationController?.navigationBar.compactAppearance = ...

Edit: Documentation - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uinavigationbarappearance

edited Sep 24 '19 at 17:51

answered Sep 18 '19 at 10:14

Ash Cameron

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This worked! `navigationController?` should be `self`, if you are already inside of `UINavigationController`… – Gizmodo Sep 18 '19 at 12:29
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Is there a way to do this globally instead of in each UIViewController? – nullforlife Oct 03 '19 at 13:11
@nullforlife `UINavigationBar.appearance().standardAppearance = style` works in iOS 13. – LOP_Luke Dec 18 '19 at 20:55

iOS 13 UIBarButtonItem Font

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