Changing Emacs font

Changing Emacs font

[Jai Dayal]

Hi,

 I want to change the default font to be Monospace of size 12.

When I open emacs -nw in a terminal, the terminal's profile preferences are
set to Monospace 12, however, when I open up emacs without a terminal, I
get a completely different set of fonts, and frankly, they're hard on my
eyes.

How can I change the emacs settings so that the font displayed is Monspace
size 12? I tried all solutions under "Globally Change the Default Font"
found here:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts#toc2

But I've had no luck.. the font is still the same original one.

What am I missing?

Thanks much!
Jai

Re: Changing Emacs font

[William Xu]

Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>  I want to change the default font to be Monospace of size 12.
>
> When I open emacs -nw in a terminal, the terminal's profile preferences are
> set to Monospace 12, however, when I open up emacs without a terminal, I
> get a completely different set of fonts, and frankly, they're hard on my
> eyes.
>
> How can I change the emacs settings so that the font displayed is Monspace
> size 12? I tried all solutions under "Globally Change the Default Font"
> found here:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts#toc2
>
> But I've had no luck.. the font is still the same original one.

If font is not changed, you shall get some error? 

> What am I missing?

You may try `M-x set-frame-font' to see if emacs knows that monospace
font at first.

-- 
William

http://xwl.appspot.com

Re: Changing Emacs font

[Javier]

This is what I have in my .emacs for using emacs in Linux

(when (equal window-system 'x)
       (set-face-font 'default "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1"))

The notation for the font is used for X11 fonts.  The program xfontsel
displays the fonts.

Also, you can access the font menu in emacs using Shift+left button of
the mouse.



Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to change the default font to be Monospace of size 12.
> 
> When I open emacs -nw in a terminal, the terminal's profile preferences are
> set to Monospace 12, however, when I open up emacs without a terminal, I
> get a completely different set of fonts, and frankly, they're hard on my
> eyes.
> 
> How can I change the emacs settings so that the font displayed is Monspace
> size 12? I tried all solutions under "Globally Change the Default Font"
> found here:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts#toc2
> 
> But I've had no luck.. the font is still the same original one.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks much!
> Jai

Re: Changing Emacs font

[Clemens Schüller]

Hello!

Javier wrote on 24.03.2014 at 21:32:

> This is what I have in my .emacs for using emacs in Linux
>
> (when (equal window-system 'x)
>        (set-face-font 'default "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1"))

You could also try the following fontset:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(custom-set-faces

'(default ((t (:family "Source Code Pro" :foundry "adobe" :slant normal :weight normal :height 113 :width normal)))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

But you must install the Adobe source code pro font from [1]



Footnotes: 
[1]  http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcecodepro.adobe/

-- 
Best Regards, Clemens Schüller