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" <sarir.kha...@raytheon.com>
> To: "ntemacs" <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>
> 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
> sarir.kha...@raytheon.com
>
>
--
Gary Oberbrunner
