UI.Text Font=null leads to NullReferenceException

Unity Engine
1

Creating the UI.Text component without font (delete font after creating, i.e. Font=null) leads to “NullReferenceException” errors.

  1. Reproduce: Create->UI->Text
  2. Click to Font field
  3. Press Delete
    Or select None in the font selector window.

Bug number 861348.

2

Hi, this has been fixed in 5.6. A backport for 5.5 has been requested.