Changing UITextField Placeholder font

Question

I'm changing the placeholder text color with the following code, but when I try to add NSFontAttribute I get the compiler error "too many arguments to method call, expect 2 have 3"

 UIColor *color = [UIColor blackColor];
        _nameField.attributedPlaceholder = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Your Name" attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: color},@{NSFontAttributeName:@"Roboto-Bold"}]; 

This Works Fine:

 UIColor *color = [UIColor blackColor];
        _nameField.attributedPlaceholder = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Your Name" attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: color}]; 

Answer 1

Objective-C:

UIColor *color = [UIColor blackColor];    
someUITextField.attributedPlaceholder =
  [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Placeholder Text"
    attributes:@{
       NSForegroundColorAttributeName: color,
       NSFontAttributeName : [UIFont fontWithName:@"Roboto-Bold" size:17.0]
    }
  ];

(There are no brackets between literal dictionary key-value pairs.)

Swift:

let attributes = [
    NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.blackColor(),
    NSFontAttributeName : UIFont(name: "Roboto-Bold", size: 17)! // Note the !
]

someUITextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "Placeholder Text", attributes:attributes)

Answer 2

For the convenience of swift people:

someTextField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "someString", 
attributes:[NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.lightGrayColor(), NSFontAttributeName: PlaceHolderFont])

Answer 3

Update for Swift 4.x:

textField.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: "Placeholder Text", attributes: [
    .foregroundColor: UIColor.lightGray,
    .font: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 14.0)
])