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

This is now available in UIFont since iOS 9:

+ (UIFont *)monospacedDigitSystemFontOfSize:(CGFloat)fontSize weight:(CGFloat)weight NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(9_0);

eg:

[UIFont monospacedDigitSystemFontOfSize:42.0 weight:UIFontWeightMedium];

or in Swift:

UIFont.monospacedDigitSystemFont(ofSize: 42.0, weight: UIFontWeightMedium)

Answer 2

A bit improved version of the @Rudolf Adamkovic code which checks iOS version:

var monospacedDigitFont: UIFont {

    if #available(iOS 9, *) {
        let oldFontDescriptor = fontDescriptor()
        let newFontDescriptor = oldFontDescriptor.monospacedDigitFontDescriptor

        return UIFont(descriptor: newFontDescriptor, size: 0)
    } else {
       return self
    }
}