How to Increase Line spacing in UILabel in Swift

Question

I have a label which has few lines of text and I want to increase the spacing between the lines. There are similar questions asked by others but the solutions don't solve my problems. Also my label may or may not contain paragraphs. I am new to Swift. Is there a solution using storyboard? Or only through NSAttributedString its possible?

Answer 1

Programatically add LineSpacing to your UILabel using following snippet.

Earlier Swift version

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Your text")

// *** Create instance of `NSMutableParagraphStyle`
let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()

// *** set LineSpacing property in points ***
paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = 2 // Whatever line spacing you want in points

// *** Apply attribute to string ***
attributedString.addAttribute(NSParagraphStyleAttributeName, value:paragraphStyle, range:NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

// *** Set Attributed String to your label ***
label.attributedText = attributedString

Swift 4.0

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Your text")

// *** Create instance of `NSMutableParagraphStyle`
let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()

// *** set LineSpacing property in points ***
paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = 2 // Whatever line spacing you want in points

// *** Apply attribute to string ***
attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.paragraphStyle, value:paragraphStyle, range:NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

// *** Set Attributed String to your label ***
label.attributedText = attributedString

Swift 4.2

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Your text")

// *** Create instance of `NSMutableParagraphStyle`
let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()

// *** set LineSpacing property in points ***
paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = 2 // Whatever line spacing you want in points

// *** Apply attribute to string ***
attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.paragraphStyle, value:paragraphStyle, range:NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

// *** Set Attributed String to your label ***
label.attributedText = attributedString

Answer 2

From Interface Builder:

Programmatically:

SWift 4 & 4.2

Using label extension

extension UILabel {

    func setLineSpacing(lineSpacing: CGFloat = 0.0, lineHeightMultiple: CGFloat = 0.0) {

        guard let labelText = self.text else { return }

        let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
        paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = lineSpacing
        paragraphStyle.lineHeightMultiple = lineHeightMultiple

        let attributedString:NSMutableAttributedString
        if let labelattributedText = self.attributedText {
            attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(attributedString: labelattributedText)
        } else {
            attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: labelText)
        }

        // (Swift 4.2 and above) Line spacing attribute
        attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.paragraphStyle, value:paragraphStyle, range:NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))


        // (Swift 4.1 and 4.0) Line spacing attribute
        attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.paragraphStyle, value:paragraphStyle, range:NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

        self.attributedText = attributedString
    }
}

Now call extension function

let label = UILabel()
let stringValue = "Set\nUILabel\nline\nspacing"

// Pass value for any one argument - lineSpacing or lineHeightMultiple
label.setLineSpacing(lineSpacing: 2.0) .  // try values 1.0 to 5.0

// or try lineHeightMultiple
//label.setLineSpacing(lineHeightMultiple = 2.0) // try values 0.5 to 2.0

Or using label instance (Just copy & execute this code to see result)

let label = UILabel()
let stringValue = "Set\nUILabel\nline\nspacing"
let attrString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: stringValue)
var style = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
style.lineSpacing = 24 // change line spacing between paragraph like 36 or 48
style.minimumLineHeight = 20 // change line spacing between each line like 30 or 40

// Line spacing attribute
attrString.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.paragraphStyle, value: style, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: stringValue.characters.count))

// Character spacing attribute
attrString.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.kern, value: 2, range: NSMakeRange(0, attrString.length))

label.attributedText = attrString

Swift 3

let label = UILabel()
let stringValue = "Set\nUILabel\nline\nspacing"
let attrString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: stringValue)
var style = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
style.lineSpacing = 24 // change line spacing between paragraph like 36 or 48
style.minimumLineHeight = 20 // change line spacing between each line like 30 or 40
attrString.addAttribute(NSParagraphStyleAttributeName, value: style, range: NSRange(location: 0, length: stringValue.characters.count))
label.attributedText = attrString

Answer 3

You can control the line spacing in storyboard.

Same question.

Answer 4

You can use this reusable extension:

extension String {

func lineSpaced(_ spacing: CGFloat) -> NSAttributedString {
    let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
    paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = spacing
    let attributedString = NSAttributedString(string: self, attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.paragraphStyle: paragraphStyle])
    return attributedString
}
}

Answer 5

Dipen's answer updated for Swift 4

let attr = NSMutableAttributedString(string: today)
let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = 2
attr.addAttribute(.paragraphStyle, value: paragraphStyle, range: NSMakeRange(0, attr.length))
label.attributedText = attr;

Answer 6

//Swift 4:
    func set(text:String,
                         inLabel:UILabel,
                         withLineSpacing:CGFloat,
                         alignment:NSTextAlignment){
            let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
            paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = withLineSpacing
            let attrString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)
            attrString.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.paragraphStyle,
                                    value:paragraphStyle,
                                    range:NSMakeRange(0, attrString.length))
            inLabel.attributedText = attrString
            inLabel.textAlignment = alignment
          }