How can I change UIButton title color?

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I create a button programmatically..........

button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
[button addTarget:self action:@selector(aMethod:)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown];
[button setTitle:@"Show View" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
button.frame = CGRectMake(80.0, 210.0, 160.0, 40.0);
[view addSubview:button];

how can I change title color?

score 554 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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You can use -[UIButton setTitleColor:forState:] to do this.

Example:

Objective-C

[buttonName setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Swift 2

buttonName.setTitleColor(UIColor.blackColor(), forState: .Normal)

Swift 3

buttonName.setTitleColor(UIColor.white, for: .normal)

Thanks to richardchildan

edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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answered Mar 19 '10 at 00:39

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For instance [buttonName setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; – Robert Childan Oct 11 '10 at 22:24
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I can't believe [UIButton setTitleColor:forState:] works but btn.titleColor = [UIColor x] does not.. – Legnus Nov 10 '14 at 15:27
@Lengus I don't see how you can access `btn.titleColor`, there is just `btn setTitleColor` available – Alex Cio May 08 '15 at 08:09
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Superb answer. Its ridiculous how you have to set the state just to change the color though... :( – Supertecnoboff Jul 07 '15 at 06:40
How about with RGB ? – Umit Kaya Mar 17 '17 at 17:16

score 25 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 06 '18 at 06:56

You created the UIButton is added the ViewController, The following instance method to change UIFont, tintColor and TextColor of the UIButton

Objective-C

 buttonName.titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"LuzSans-Book" size:15];
 buttonName.tintColor = [UIColor purpleColor];
 [buttonName setTitleColor:[UIColor purpleColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Swift

buttonName.titleLabel.font = UIFont(name: "LuzSans-Book", size: 15)
buttonName.tintColor = UIColor.purpleColor()
buttonName.setTitleColor(UIColor.purpleColor(), forState: .Normal)

Swift3

buttonName.titleLabel?.font = UIFont(name: "LuzSans-Book", size: 15)
buttonName.tintColor = UIColor.purple
buttonName.setTitleColor(UIColor.purple, for: .normal)

Please don't simply post the code. Give some explanation or information or usage about your code. For example, see [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/16893057/756941). — Nazik, Dec 20 '13 at 05:56

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 11 '17 at 10:27

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Solution in Swift 3:

button.setTitleColor(UIColor.red, for: .normal)

This will set the title color of button.

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answered Sep 11 '17 at 09:33

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Imanou Petit · Answer 4 · 2019-04-26T19:48:31.747

With Swift 5, UIButton has a setTitleColor(_:for:) method. setTitleColor(_:for:) has the following declaration:

Sets the color of the title to use for the specified state.

func setTitleColor(_ color: UIColor?, for state: UIControlState)

The following Playground sample code show how to create a UIbutton in a UIViewController and change it's title color using setTitleColor(_:for:):

import UIKit
import PlaygroundSupport

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        view.backgroundColor = UIColor.white

        // Create button
        let button = UIButton(type: UIButton.ButtonType.system)

        // Set button's attributes
        button.setTitle("Print 0", for: UIControl.State.normal)
        button.setTitleColor(UIColor.orange, for: UIControl.State.normal)

        // Set button's frame
        button.frame.origin = CGPoint(x: 100, y: 100)
        button.sizeToFit()

        // Add action to button
        button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(printZero(_:)), for: UIControl.Event.touchUpInside)

        // Add button to subView
        view.addSubview(button)
    }

    @objc func printZero(_ sender: UIButton) {
        print("0")
    }

}

let controller = ViewController()
PlaygroundPage.current.liveView = controller

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 19 '16 at 03:15

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If you are using Swift, this will do the same:

buttonName.setTitleColor(UIColor.blackColor(), forState: .Normal)

Hope that helps!

answered Jan 19 '16 at 03:15

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