The issue has to do with Emacs 28 loading the settings.org file from
init.el. If I have an init.el file without

 (require 'org)
 (org-babel-tangle-file "~/.emacs.d/settings.org"
                        "~/.emacs.d/settings.el")
 (load "~/.emacs.d/settings.el")

then I can change the font.

I also tried this code:

(require 'org)
(org-babel-load-file (expand-file-name (concat user-emacs-directory "
settings.org")))

which also did not work.


On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 8:40 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Raoul Comninos <revcomninos@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:08:41 +0200
> > Cc: 40796@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > It's not my settings.org file because I created a blank one and it
> yielded the exact same results. My init file is
> > so small that I don't think it makes any difference:
>
> But without that init file the problem goes away, right?  So it is
> something in this small file which causes this.
>
> > (package-initialize)
> >
> > ;; Bootstrap `use-package'
> > (unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
> >   (package-refresh-contents)
> >   (package-install 'use-package))
>
> Which packages does this activate?
>
> > (require 'org)
> > (org-babel-tangle-file "~/.emacs.d/settings.org"
> >                        "~/.emacs.d/settings.el")
> > (load "~/.emacs.d/settings.el")
>
> Or is it Org that you load here?
>
> Try disabling each part to see which one causes this.
>