Emacs + Mac OSX and changing default font

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Andrzej Śliwa picture Andrzej Śliwa · Aug 10, 2009 · Viewed 17.3k times · Source

how I can change default font to Monaco with antialiasing on Emacs 23. Where I can find dedicated binary for Emacs 23.1 for cocoa with antialised font settings?

Answer

CubaLibre picture CubaLibre · Apr 18, 2012

There is another question that deals with fonts on Emacs and Mac OS here: How do I set fonts on Emacs for Mac?

I found it easiest to add something like this to my init.el

 (set-face-attribute 'default nil
                :family "Inconsolata" :height 145 :weight 'normal)

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