Left Align custom label with spaces along with items

Question

I am trying to define a custom list that left aligns the label and then left aligns the items (at the same point in the page that is x from the longest label), so varying distance between the start of each item and its label).

I would also like the label to be bold font and have a ":" appended (without writing it out each time). When I use parleft, it seems to mess up when the label has spaces. How can I fix this overlapping text?

documentclass{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry}
usepackage{enumitem}
begin{document}

newlist{detail}{enumerate}{1}
setlist[detail]{
    label=textbf{}:
    leftmargin=*
}
section*{My List}
begin{detail}[align=parleft,labelsep=6em]
item[A Label with five words] Thing 1
item[Other] Thing 2
end{detail}
end{document}

leandriis · Accepted Answer

The following two suggestions do currently not allow for linebreaks in both table columns. If you happen to need them, you might want to take a look at the tabularx package.

documentclass{article} 
usepackage{array} 
begin{document}  
section*{My List}  
begin{tabular}{@{}>{bfseries}l<{:}@{hspace{2em}}l@{}} % fixes space between left and right column
A Label with five words & Thing 1 
Other& Thing 2 
end{tabular}  

noindent 
begin{tabular}{@{}>{bfseries}wl{4.5cm}<{:}l@{}}  % fixed with first column
A Label with five words & Thing 1 
Other& Thing 2 
end{tabular} 
end{document}

For longer entries in the first column, you could use p{5cm} instead of wl{5cm}. If you also want to make sure, the text is left aligned instead of justified, add raggedrightarraybackslash:

documentclass{article} 
usepackage{array} 
begin{document}  
 
begin{tabular}{@{}>{bfseriesraggedrightarraybackslash}p{5cm}<{:}l@{}}  % fixed with first column
A Label with five words A Label with five words & Thing 1 
Other& Thing 2 
end{tabular} 
end{document}

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