Emacs Font Fun

I actually love fonts! (Which might surprise you who read from Gemini where all fonts is client side, but it's because I love good fonts so much that I think fonts should be a reader decision, not a server decision.) When my desktop went headless after having to move to a way smaller apartment and my Emacs had to live in SSH only, I was sad because I had set up all kinds of weird fonts in Emacs and functions to switch the entire Emacs over along with “only switch this particular buffer over” variants. E.g.

(defun to-june ()
  (interactive)
  (set-frame-font "Junicode-32"))

(defun to-june-b ()
   (interactive)
   (setq buffer-face-mode-face '(:family "Junicode" :height 320))
   (buffer-face-mode))

Along with this to make a changed buffer go back to the frame-wide font:

(defun unbufface ()
  (interactive)
  (buffer-face-mode -1))

And now I have all those fun fonts working again on the Android version of Emacs! ♥︎♥︎♥︎

Hence the huge sizes. I was on 12 for most non-Junicode fonts with a -16 “big” option, while Junicode with its lower x-heights I had at 14 pts. But on “Moria”, I use 28 as the “small” size, 34 as the big size and Junicode gets to be 32.

My default font for coding and general emacsing around was (CW non-free) Futura while I wrote most prose texts with Junicode. Coding in proportional?! A geometric sans with a super ambiguous character set for I1O0? Well, it works great for Lisp for the most part and I had it set up so I could super easily toggle out from it back into Deja Vu Mono, or Fira Code these days.

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "Futura LT-28"))

I set this all of this up pretty soon before having to switch away from it so I only got to enjoy it for a few months so I’m grateful that I have it back albeit not on my big 21″ 4:3 screen. It’s on a more cozy and puny lantern-lit 7″ screen. Last piece of the puzzle is that I’m gonna go find a retro-ish typewritery font. Old Timey Code maybe. I was on “Bohemian Typewriter” but I couldn’t get that to work on since the Android version of Emacs don’t support OTF. And good riddance since the latin-1 coverage was so bad, but also not good riddance since the alternatives I’ve found so far are more consistenly x-spaced instead of nostalgically jittering around like an X-File on uppers.

I really like switching fonts with the same text open. It helps me get fresh eyes on the same text and see different problems or things I can write in a more beautiful or clear way.

Android Fonts (GNU Emacs Manual)