How to get monospaced numbers in UILabel on iOS 9

Question

At WWDC 2015, there was a session about the new “San Francisco” system font in iOS 9. It uses proportional number rendering instead of monospaced numbers by default when lin

Answer 1

Example usage for Swift 5.2 following the accepted answer using dynamic type.

label.font = .init(descriptor: UIFont.preferredFont(forTextStyle: .body)
                 .fontDescriptor.addingAttributes([
                 .featureSettings: [[
                     UIFontDescriptor.FeatureKey.featureIdentifier: kNumberSpacingType,
                                                .typeIdentifier: kMonospacedNumbersSelector]]]),
                                                size: 0)

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Worth mentioning for macOS (AppKit) it is slightly different:

NSFont(descriptor: NSFont.systemFont(ofSize: 20).fontDescriptor
       .addingAttributes([.featureSettings: [[NSFontDescriptor.FeatureKey
       .selectorIdentifier: kMonospacedNumbersSelector,
       .typeIdentifier: kNumberSpacingType]]]), size: 0)