Change the font of a UIBarButtonItem

Question

I have a UIBarButtonItem in my UIToolbar titled

Answer 1

Assuming you want to support iOS4 and earlier, your best bet is to create a bar button using the initWithCustomView: method and supply your own view which could be something like a UIButton where you can easily customise the font.

You can also drag a UIButton onto a toolbar or navigation bar in Interface Builder if you want to create the button with drag-and-drop instead of programmatically.

Unfortunately this means creating the button background image yourself. There's no way to customise the font of a standard UIBarButtonItem prior to iOS5.