Emacs: How to List ＆ Set Font

Chose the menu 〖Options ▸ Set Default Font…〗

Then chose 〖Options ▸ Save Options〗.

You can evaluate the following code:

(print (font-family-list))

(list-fontsets "DejaVu Sans-10")

Select the elisp code, then call eval-region. 〔☛ Emacs: How to Evaluate Emacs Lisp Code〕

You can see the result in “*Messages*” buffer. view-echo-area-messages 【F1 e】.

;; set font for all windows
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-10"))

or

;; set font for current window
(set-frame-parameter nil 'font "DejaVu Sans Mono-10")

In Linux, terminal, you can type fc-list to list available fonts.

For a sample output of fc-list, see: linux_ubuntu_default_fonts.txt.

Just install to the OS normally. Restart emacs. Emacs should see it.

I recommend DejaVu Sans Mono, because it's the best font and has the best Unicode support. See: Best Unicode Fonts for Programing.