iOS 7: What is UIBarButtonItem's default font?

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What is the default font of the title of a UIBarButtonItem with a style of UIBarButtonItemStyleDone?

The following just returns nil:

[doneBarButtonItem titleTextAttributesForState:UIControlStateNormal]

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '13 at 16:53

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[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:17]

Note: I confirmed this by doing:

UIFont *font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:17];
[doneBarButtonItem setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName: font}
                                 forState:UIControlStateNormal];

And then, I took screenshots of the before & after and compared them. They were identical.

answered Sep 22 '13 at 16:53

ma11hew28

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This doesn't take into account iOS 7's Dynamic Type sizing information. – Ben S Sep 22 '13 at 16:58
Good point. Although, that doesn't appear to affect `UIBarButtonItem` title font. In any case, the slider in Settings > General > Text Size was directly in the middle upon precisely confirming this answer. – ma11hew28 Sep 22 '13 at 17:07
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Plus this could change in the future (if it hasn't already). Not really an acceptable answer. There needs to be a way to get it programatically – MobileMon Apr 15 '15 at 20:08
Maybe it changed since 2013, but this is not true anymore. [UIFont systemFontOfSize:17] seems to be ok now (not sure I'm just comparing screenshots) – CedricSoubrie Nov 05 '15 at 10:22

score 13 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 26 '18 at 12:43

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You can retrieve the default font for a UILabel (which includes UIBarButton's title label) by querying

UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: UIFont.labelFontSize)

edited Jun 26 '18 at 12:43

Luke Rogers

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answered Jun 03 '16 at 08:29

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iOS 7: What is UIBarButtonItem's default font?

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