What is a monospace font in iOS?
IosFontsIos Problem Overview
I want a monospace font for my UILabel in my iOS application.
Unfortunately, I could not find one. Even "American Typewriter" was not actually monospaced. What is a monospace font available in XCode?
Ios Solutions
Solution 1 - Ios
iOS mono-spaced fonts
Courier
Courier-Bold
Courier-BoldOblique
Courier-Oblique
CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT
CourierNewPS-BoldMT
CourierNewPS-ItalicMT
CourierNewPSMT
Menlo-Bold
Menlo-BoldItalic
Menlo-Italic
Menlo-Regular
iosfonts.com maintain a list of all iOS fonts.
This webpage detects your installed system fonts and returns a fairly comprehensive list.
Solution 2 - Ios
Looking at an old listing of fonts shipped with iOS I see several one monospace fonts.
(eg. Andale Mono, Monaco, Courier New)
For 2018 it's only Menlo and Courier.
Solution 3 - Ios
If your intent is to display numbers and you don't care about the specific font used, you can do this:
UIFont.monospacedDigitSystemFontOfSize(
UIFont.systemFontSize(),
weight: UIFontWeightRegular)
Solution 4 - Ios
Adobe just released a nice monospaced font Source Code Pro in both TTF and OTF formats. It's licensed with the Open Font License so it is available for free use within applications, including commercial applications. You will need to add the font file as a resource in Xcode, by setting the UIAppFonts key in the info.plist to point to the SourceCodeProRegular.ttf file.
Now in your code you can set, for example:
self.textView.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Source Code Pro" size:14];
Solution 5 - Ios
Expanding upon @reggie-pinkham's answer, I built this JS Bin for folks to use as a live test page; to save future reader's some time, here's a few screen shots using iOS Simulator on Mavericks:
8.1
iPad Air, iOS 8.1
iPhone 6 plus, iOS Solution 6 - Ios
As of iOS 13, San Francisco (SF) Mono is available. Couldn't find a way to set this in interface builder, but by code it's:
let font = UIFont.monospacedSystemFont(ofSize: 17.0, weight: .regular)
Solution 7 - Ios
If you're looking for a monospace font for numbers, then try "Helvetica Neue".
Solution 8 - Ios
A list of built-in fonts available on iOS: http://iosfonts.com. Courier and Menlo seem to be the only monospace fonts in there.
Solution 9 - Ios
SwiftUI
You can use Font's instance method monospacedDigit
Text("0123456789")
.foregroundColor(.white)
.font(Font.custom("San Francisco", size: 20).monospacedDigit())
Solution 10 - Ios
You can access system fonts in monospaced with the following Font
factory method:
static func system(Font.TextStyle, design: Font.Design) -> Font
Example:
let monospacedBody = Font.system(.body, .monospaced)
Other usage:
let serifTitle = Font.system(.title, .serif)
Solution 11 - Ios
In the meantime there is a good Monospace font available from Apple, that can be downloaded here: Apple SFUI Here is how to add the fonts to Xcode: Add fonts to xcode