Custom font in GUI.Label, but can't change it's color

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Hi, I followed the Michael La Voie answer from this post: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/6585/change-gui-font-size-and-color , but I can't change font color. By default the shader of an imported font is read-only and I can't manually change the color, though here are 2 script attempts which failed:

GUI.color = Color.red;
myStyle.font.material.color = Color.red;

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Answer by Edy · May 31, 2010 at 02:44 PM

I came to the same problem and found a simple solution. This is JavaScript but sure you get the point if you want to use C#:

var TextStyle = new GUIStyle();

function OnGUI ()
{     
    GUI.Label (Rect (10, 10, 200, 80), "This is a styled text", TextStyle);
}

Add the above script to any GameObject. The script component will now publish a property TextStyle, where you can edit and control all of its properties at design time:

TextStyle -> Normal -> Text Color for setting the text color.
TextStyle -> Font for specifying any font (drag & drop from your Assets or choose from the drop-down menu).

Of course, you can also set the properties at runtime:

function OnStart ()
{
    TextStyle.normal.textColor = Color.red;
    TextStyle.font = myFont;
}

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monotoan · Mar 09, 2017 at 04:40 PM 2

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To clarify, since this is an old answer:

If you're working with a GUIStyle (so you can set fontsize, etc.), the line of code you need to change the color is:

myGUIStyle.normal.textColor = Color.red; // ( or Color.white or Color.whateverYouWant )

Setting colors on the GUI object (e.g. GUI.contentColor), as suggested by most of the other answers, WON'T work if your text is being displayed with a GUIStyle.

liam4567890 monotoan · Aug 05, 2021 at 12:03 AM 0

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Thank you very much mono, this saved me a lot of googling.

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Answer by Molix · May 20, 2010 at 01:08 AM

I think you want GUI.contentColor, e.g.

GUI.contentColor = Color.red;

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Ranza · May 23, 2010 at 05:56 PM 0

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doesn't work either...

Molix · May 23, 2010 at 08:21 PM 1

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In a clean project with default styles that works, so the issue must be something else. To be clear, you set the GUI.color or GUI.contentColor right before drawing the text with GUI/GUILayout. The color is multiplied into your text color, so if your GUIStyle uses a black color, it will stay black -- make sure the style is using white.

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Answer by Litobyte_Softworks · Sep 14, 2011 at 06:47 PM

Try this in your start function:

TextStyle.normal.textColor = Color.red;

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Answer by Jeejo · Apr 28, 2013 at 02:11 AM

This should work:

 var TextColor : Color = Color.white;
 
 function Start () {
     guiText.material.color = TextColor; 
 }

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Eric5h5 · Apr 28, 2013 at 03:11 AM 0

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The question is about OnGUI code, not GUIText objects.

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Answer by Veehmot · Apr 28, 2013 at 12:45 AM

As of Unity 4, this works:

 GUI.color = Color.red

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