I’ve been playing around with some different fonts to see how they look in Emacs. For a long time I’ve been using DejaVu Sans Mono, but I felt like a change. It’s easy to switch the font for the current frame, just use M-x set-frame-font and enter the name of an installed font, or put a line like this
(set-frame-font "DejaVu Sans Mono-14" nil t)in your scratch buffer and put the cursor at the end of the line, and use C-x C-e to run eval-last-sexp which evaluates that bit of code. This will instantly change the appearance of the current frame.
Here are some of the fonts I’ve been trying out (I installed them using the Font Book on my Mac):
(set-frame-font "DejaVu Sans Mono-14" nil t) (set-frame-font "Fantasque Sans Mono-16" nil t) (set-frame-font "Source Code Pro-14" nil t) (set-frame-font "Monaco-14" nil t) (set-frame-font "Cousine-14" nil t)I’ve decided to go with Google’s Cousine font at the moment, so I add the following to myemacs config file to make the choice permanent:
(setq default-frame-alist '((font . "Cousine-14")))