How to increase the character spacing in UILabel

Question

I am creating an app in >=iOS6. And I want to change the character spacing in UILabel. I have added the custom font "FUTURABT HEAVY" in my app but the Character are too close to eachother.

I have find the good code here to increase the character spacing. But if i tried to change it than my text became left- align in stead of center.

Please help me with this situation.

Answer 1

You should probably use NSAttributedString with NSKernAttributeName attribute

Here is a small example:

UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];  NSString *string = @"Some important text"; NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:string];  float spacing = 5.0f; [attributedString addAttribute:NSKernAttributeName             value:@(spacing)             range:NSMakeRange(0, [string length])];  label.attributedText = attributedString; [self.view addSubview:label]; 

Answer 2

Swift extension for this

extension UILabel {     func addCharactersSpacing(spacing:CGFloat, text:String) {         let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text)         attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.kern, value: spacing, range: NSMakeRange(0, text.count-1))         self.attributedText = attributedString     } } 

So you can use it

MyLabel.addCharactersSpacing(5, text: "Some Text")