How do you set the font size on a UIBarButtonItem?

Question

I can\'t find a way to set the font size of the title in a custom UIBarButtonItem. The only way I can think of getting around this is to set it as an image which I would like to

Answer 1

Swift5:

    let item = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(self.onItemTapped))
    let font:UIFont = UIFont(name: "", size: 18) ?? UIFont()
    item.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.font: font], for: UIControl.State.normal);