How to change the font and text color of the title of UINavigationBar

I want to be change the font of the title to Avenir, and I want to make it white. Here is my code in the `viewDidLoad` method:

UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 20)!]
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()]

This code only changes the color of the title, not the font. Additionally, I tried implementing this in the App Delegate File, but that did not work.

Here is what my UINavigationBar looks like:[![enter image description here][1]][1]


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I want the title to have a font of Avenir as well. How do I achieve this?

It seems this is needed as well:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black // I then set the color using:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor(red: 204/255, green: 47/255, blue: 40/255, alpha: 1.0) // a lovely red

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor() // for titles, buttons, etc.

let navigationTitleFont = UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 20)!

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: navigationTitleFont]

I'm updating this for iOS 15. If you have a scroll view that pushes something behind the Nav Bar it WILL change the NavigationBar background if you do NOT set "navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance".

So here is a simple config to set it for ALL of your views in ViewDidLoad of your main ViewController.

// Set top Nav Bar behavior for ALL of app
let standardAppearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()

// Title font color
standardAppearance.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]

// prevent Nav Bar color change on scroll view push behind NavBar
standardAppearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground()
standardAppearance.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue


self.navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = standardAppearance
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = standardAppearance



So the 'scrollEdgeAppearance' you can set title color, tint, NavBar color and the works. The standardAppearance is what shows at loading.

Took me a while to figure this one out for iOS15.

You're welcome! :-)

In **Swift 5**:

let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
appearance.titleTextAttributes = [
NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white,
NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 20)!]
appearance.largeTitleTextAttributes = [
NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white,
NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 35)!]

Code here are for Title and Large title. you can also remove custom font if you want system font.

In case someone needs this in **Swift 4**:

let navBarAppearance = UINavigationBar.appearance()
navBarAppearance.barTintColor = .red
navBarAppearance.tintColor = .white
navBarAppearance.titleTextAttributes = [
NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white,
NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 20)!]

Your code is OK you just need to set all of `titleTextAttributes` in one line:

UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white , NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 17)!]

If you want the styles to be applied through out the whole app add these lines in the AppDelegate.m file.

NSShadow* shadow = [NSShadow new];
shadow.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, 0.0f);
shadow.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes: @{
NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor],
NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont fontWithName:@"Kelvetica Nobis" size:20.0f],
NSShadowAttributeName: shadow
}];

**NSForegroundColorAttributeName** sets the Font color.

**NSFontAttributeName** sets a custom font face to the title text.

**NSShadowAttributeName** applies a nice shadow effect to the text, you can remove this part if you want.

Also in advance, you can add these line to hide the text that comes up in back button in action bar when you navigate to another view within the navigation controller.

[[UIBarButtonItem appearance]
setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment:UIOffsetMake(-1000, -1000)
forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

Hope this help your question :)

I would just create an outlet and do this:

@IBOutlet weak var navigationBar: UINavigationBar!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.

navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Avenir", size: 30)!]
}