Re: [h-e-w] Favorite font for Emacs

[Gary Oberbrunner]

I'm a big fan of Droid Sans Mono Dotted at 10 point.  (Just google it)

Here's my .emacs stanza to load it:

(setq preferred-fonts
      '(
        ;; Droid Sans Mono: quite nice.
        ;; 15 pixels total height at 10 point.  Clear & crisp.
        ;; (e.g. http://www.fontex.org/download/Droid-sans-mono.ttf)
        "Droid Sans Mono Dotted-10"
        "Droid Sans Mono-10"
        ;; Consolas: download installer from Microsoft.
        ;; Quite beautiful and renders nicely, but a little light.
        ;; Pretty similar to Droid Sans Mono.
        ;; The slanted verticals on the capital M annoy me a little.
        ;; (16 pixels height)
        "Consolas-10.5"
        ;; Inconsolata: lots of people like this.
        ;; http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html:
        ;; about same size as Consolas-10.5, but thicker and less leading
        ;; (17 pixels height) and not as smooth lines.  Feels chunky.
        "Inconsolata-12"
        ;; default
        "Courier New-10.5"))
(defun find-first-font (list)
  (cond ((null list)
         nil)
        ((x-list-fonts (car list))
         (message (concat "Using font " (car list)))
         (car list))
        (t                              ; recurse
         (find-first-font (cdr list)))
        ))
; set default font attributes (for all frames)
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :font (find-first-font preferred-fonts))


-- Gary

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sarir Khamsi" <address@hidden>
> To: "ntemacs" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 3:52:57 PM
> Subject: [h-e-w] Favorite font for Emacs
> 
> I've been using a 6x13 font for Emacs on Windows for a very long time
> and while I like the size and proportions, it does not display
> italics
> and other properties. The 6x13 font (that I can't even remember where
> I
> got it) is great for coding as it's fixed pitch and small, but it's
> so
> 20th century. :-)
> 
> What do you folks use for fixed pitch fonts that work under Windows 7
> with Emacs 24.1? Ideally, I'd like to use the same font as my Linux
> (Fedora) install (without having to run X). Thanks.
> 
> Sarir
> 
> --
> Sarir Khamsi
> software guy
> address@hidden
> 
> 

-- 
Gary Oberbrunner