Re: recommended font for emacs xft

[Hadron]

Tamas Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am happy using the alpha version of Emacs23 with the xft extension.
> However, I could not find a font that is just "right": Monospace-11
> looks very "weak".  I am looking for something not to tall (number of
> horizontal lines is important so I can fit more code on a screen).
> set-default-font snippets are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tamas

(setq default-frame-alist (quote ((background-mode . dark) (border-color . 
"black") (cursor-color . "LightGray") (mouse-color . "Grey") (background-color 
. "darkslategrey") (foreground-color . "wheat") (font . "-bitstream-bitstream 
vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--13-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"))))



Which translates to

(set-default-font "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans 
mono-medium-r-normal--13-120-*-*-*-*-*-*")

Excellent.