Color of custom font in navgation controller (setTextColor): gray instead of white

Question

I am trying to set custom font and color (white) for font in my app's navigation bar title. Instead of white I get gray text color.

Here is the code I'm using to set custom font:

UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 30)];
label.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = NO;
label.minimumFontSize = 10.0;
[label setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeueLTCom-MdCn" size:24.0]];
[label setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[label setTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[label setText:@"View title"];
[self.navigationItem setTitleView:label];

Same thing happened when I tried to set custom font color in UITableView sections.

I know about some problems with Helvetica Neue in iPhone apps development but the color of this font works well in other parts of my projects.

Am I missing something here?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '12 at 12:29

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Have you tried other .ttf fonts just to test if they work? I wonder if there is something wrong with the font file itself. try this directory and see if it works.

answered Sep 23 '12 at 12:29

KDaker

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Yes, I've tried using: `[label setFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:24.0]]` and the colors stays gray. – syntagma Sep 23 '12 at 14:12

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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The problem was that I've (deliberately) overriden default font for the whole application as described in this answer.

The solution was to remove this override (all the #import's and the remove .m file from the target, or just delete both of the class files.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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answered Sep 24 '12 at 11:39

syntagma

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Color of custom font in navgation controller (setTextColor): gray instead of white

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