What is a monospace font in iOS?

Question

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

Answer 1

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:

iPad Air, iOS 8.1

iPhone 6 plus, iOS 8.1

Answer 2

If you're looking for a monospace font for numbers, then try "Helvetica Neue".

Answer 3

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)

Answer 4

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.