How to change the font size of the tab bar controller item name?

Question

I am doing an app based on tabbarController. I have a 3 tabbar items.

My question is: How can I change the font-style for the title on the tab-bar item?

Answer 1

[self.tabBarItem setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                            [UIFont fontWithName:@"AmericanTypewriter" size:20.0f], UITextAttributeFont,
                                            [UIColor blackColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,
                                            [UIColor grayColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor,
                                            [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0.0f, 1.0f)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset,
                                            nil]];

Answer 2

This will change ur UITabBarItem fonts once and for all throughout the app

For Swift use this in AppDelegate's didFinishLaunching:

Swift 3:

UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.blue,NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Montserrat", size: 11)!], for: .normal)

UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.red,NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Montserrat", size: 11)!], for: .selected)