Changing tab bar font in Swift

Question

I have been trying to change the font for the tab bar items however I haven't been able to find any Swift examples. I know that this is how you change it in Objective-C:

[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIFont fontWithName:@"AmericanTypewriter" size:20.0f], UITextAttributeFont, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; 

But how can I translate this into Swift?

Answer 1

The UITextAttributeFont was deprecated in iOS 7. You should use the NS variant instead:

import UIKit  let appearance = UITabBarItem.appearance() let attributes = [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: "American Typewriter", size: 20)] appearance.setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, forState: .Normal) 

Answer 2

Swift 4.2

UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "FontName", size: 10)!], for: .normal) UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "FontName", size: 10)!], for: .selected) 

Swift 4

UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont(name: "FontName", size: 10)!], for: .normal) UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont(name: "FontName", size: 10)!], for: .selected) 

Swift 3

UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Font-Name", size: 10)!], for: .normal) UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Font-Name", size: 10)!], for: .selected) 

Note: Use setTitleTextAttributes for both .normal and .selected to have changes persist selection state changes.