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I'm looking at the video of WWDC 2016 Session 803, Typography and Fonts.
The video spends quite a lot of time talking about a font called SF Mono, the third member of the San Francisco font family, showing it off in different weights and character sets. Sounds great. I'm ready to use it in the iOS 10 version of my app.
There's just one problem: Where is it? It doesn't seem to be included in iOS itself, and when I download San Francisco from Apple, it isn't included there either. I know I could pull a copy out of Xcode 8 itself and include that in my app, but surely that isn't the intended approach. What am I missing?
(Not a duplicate of What is the NSFont name for the font 'SF Mono'?. He’s talking about NSFont name. I’m talking about the location of the physical font file, such as a .ttf. that I can include in an iOS app.)
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SF Mono. This monospaced variant of San Francisco enables alignment between rows and columns of text, and is used in coding environments like Xcode.
Monospaced fonts are customary on typewriters and for typesetting computer code. Monospaced fonts were widely used in early computers and computer terminals, which often had extremely limited graphical capabilities.
Apple's current default font for Mac and iOS is a sans serif called San Francisco, which is basically an adaptation of Helvetica Neue. Such sans serif fonts, constructed with clear lines that lack the extra filigree of serifs, have been embraced in user interfaces in the digital era.
SF Mono can be downloaded from the Fonts for Apple Platforms page.
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