iOS Monospaced Custom Font

Question

I have a custom font included in my Xcode 7, iOS 9 targeted project. I want to make the font monospaced. I tried this, and didn\'t work:

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Answer 1

The code you are using is not making font monospaced.

It's tweaking font to render digits in monospace mode. So all with this font digits will have same width.

Below is an example with 4 labels, 1 is using custom font Docis Light, 2nd is Docis Light with monospaced digits on, 3rd is system font of same size, 4th is system font with monospaced digits on:

As you see, this custom font already supports monospace digits feature out of the box with no tweak required.

If you need to use monospaced (not just digits) font, you have to use custom monospaced font (designed to be monospaced) or you can use built-in iOS monospaced fonts such as Courier or Menlo (See all available iOS fonts at http://iosfonts.com/)

This is how they look like with same scenario:

With or without tweaking, they are already monospaced and the digits are monospaced as well.

I answered similar question here, probably, I should just link the answer instead of images but it so much more visual.