How to change font of UIButton with Swift

Question

I am trying to change the font of a UIButton using Swift...

myButton.font = UIFont(name: \"...\", 10)

However .font is depreca

Answer 1

From the documentation:

The font used to display text on the button. (Deprecated in iOS 3.0. Use the font property of the titleLabel instead.)

Answer 2

Use titleLabel instead. The font property is deprecated in iOS 3.0. It also does not work in Objective-C. titleLabel is label used for showing title on UIButton.

myButton.titleLabel?.font =  UIFont(name: YourfontName, size: 20)

However, while setting title text you should only use setTitle:forControlState:. Do not use titleLabel to set any text for title directly.

Answer 3

If you need to change only size (Swift 4.0):

button.titleLabel?.font = button.titleLabel?.font.withSize(12)

Answer 4

If you're having font size issues (your font isn't responding to size changes)...

@codester has the right code:

myButton.titleLabel!.font =  UIFont(name: YourfontName, size: 20)

However, my font size wasn't changing. It turns out that I asking for a font that didn't exist ("HelveticaNeue-Regular"). It wasn't causing a crash, but seemed to be just ignoring that font statement because of it. Once I changed the font to something that does exist, changes to "size: x" did render.