Sprite kit- Cannot change the colour of text (always white)

Question

I am writing a 2d game in sprite kit and I am creating the menu screen. Everything is ok so far apart from the fact that the text always appears white, whatever values of red, green, blue etc that I enter into the code. This is the code that I am using to create the background for the menu:

-(id)initWithSize:(CGSize)size
{
if (self = [super initWithSize:size]) {

    NSLog(@"Size: %@", NSStringFromCGSize(size));
    [self setBackgroundColor:[SKColor colorWithRed:0.9 green:0.9 blue:0.9 alpha:1.0]];

    self.writing = [SKLabelNode labelNodeWithFontNamed:@"Thonburi Bold"];
    self.writing.text = @"MAIN MENU";
    self.writing.fontSize = 42;
    self.writing.color = [SKColor colorWithRed:0.1 green:0.1 blue:0.1 alpha:1.0];
    self.writing.position = CGPointMake(130, 270);
    [self addChild:self.writing];
}
return  self;

}

I have other code in the project and I checked that none of it is anything to do with the colour of the text on this screen.

(I am new to programming so this might be a fairly obvious mistake)

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The color property is the blend color. You want to use fontColor to change the text's color.

label.fontColor = [SKColor colorWithRed:0.1 green:1 blue:0.1 alpha:1.0];

You could also use color and set colorBlendFactor to 1. Though this might be slower depending on how it's handled internally.