UIBarButtonItem bold non-standard font when selected/active

Question

I want to setup UIBarButtonItem so that it uses a different font throughout my app. I'm doing this using appearance, however I have hit an issue with how to display the font in bold when its selected. Here is what I want to do:

var barButtonItemApperance = UIBarButtonItem.appearance()
barButtonItemApperance.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName : UIFont(name: "Apple SD Gothic Neo", size: 16)!], forState: UIControlState.Normal)
barButtonItemApperance.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName : UIFont(name: "Apple SD Gothic Neo", size: 16)!], forState: UIControlState.Selected) // I want this to be in bold text

Does anyone know how I can achieve this? The font is definitely 100% available in bold.

Answer 1

for making text bold, this is the general syntax:

customLabel.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:16.0f]

But you can simply choose the bold version of the font Apple SD Gothic Neo, Below is the list:

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• AppleSDGothicNeo-Thin
• AppleSDGothicNeo-Light
• AppleSDGothicNeo-Regular
• AppleSDGothicNeo-Medium
• AppleSDGothicNeo-SemiBold
• AppleSDGothicNeo-Bold
• AppleSDGothicNeo-Medium