Change the navigation bar's font

Question

The question is plain easy and simple, the answer unfortunately not.

How can you change the font of the text in the UINavigationBar?

Answer 1

If you wanted to change the font in the Interface Builder itself (without any code) here is the way to do it in Xcode6:

1.) Find the Navigation Bar view under the Navigation Controller Scene

2.) Change the Title Font, Color and Shadow attributes in the Attributes Inspector.

Answer 2

From iOS 7 and later:

NSShadow* shadow = [NSShadow new]; shadow.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, 1.0f); shadow.shadowColor = [UIColor redColor]; [[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes: @{      NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor greenColor],                 NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica" size:20.0f],               NSShadowAttributeName: shadow                                                       }]; 

From iOS 5 and later:

 [[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes: @{                                 UITextAttributeTextColor: [UIColor greenColor],                           UITextAttributeTextShadowColor: [UIColor redColor],                          UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset: [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0.0f, 1.0f)],                                      UITextAttributeFont: [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica" size:20.0f]      }]; 

Earlier than iOS 5:

UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 400, 44)]; label.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; label.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:20.0]; label.shadowColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0.0 alpha:0.5]; label.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter; label.textColor =[UIColor whiteColor]; label.text=self.title;   self.navigationItem.titleView = label;       [label release];