How to set the font size in Emacs

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I also want to save the font size in my  emacs file

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It all depends what you mean by change the font size  This EmacsWiki section provides the best and most complete information  It distinguishes the various cases  text scaling  frame font  buffer frame  etc    Changing Font Size

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Press Shift and the first mouse button   You can change the font size in the following way   This website has more detail

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M-x customize-face RET default will allow you to set the face default face  on which all other faces base on  There you can set the font-size   Here is what is in my  emacs  actually  color-theme will set the basics  then my custom face setting will override some stuff  the custom-set-faces is written by emacs s customize-face mechanism      my colour theme is whateveryouwant     require  color-theme   color-theme-initialize   color-theme-whateveryouwant    custom-set-faces      custom-set-faces was added by Custom       If you edit it by hand  you could mess it up  so be careful       Your init file should contain only one such instance       If there is more than one  they won t work right     default   t   stipple nil  background  white   foreground  black   inverse-video nil  box nil  strike-through nil  overline nil  underline nil  slant normal  weight normal  height 98  width normal  foundry  unknown   family  DejaVu Sans Mono         font-lock-comment-face   t   foreground  darkorange4         font-lock-function-name-face   t   foreground  navy         font-lock-keyword-face   t   foreground  red4         font-lock-type-face   t   foreground  black         linum   t   inherit shadow  background  gray95         mode-line   t  nil nil nil nil  background  grey90    line-width -1  color nil  style released-button   black   box nil  width condensed  foundry  unknown   family  DejaVu Sans Mono

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It all depends what you mean by change the font size  This EmacsWiki section provides the best and most complete information  It distinguishes the various cases  text scaling  frame font  buffer frame  etc    Changing Font Size

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In NTEmacs 23 1  the Options menu has a  Set default font     option

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Open emacs in X11  goto menu Options  select  set default font       change the font size  Select  save options  in the same menu  Done

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I ve got the following in my  emacs    defun fontify-frame  frame     set-frame-parameter frame  font  Monospace-11        Fontify current frame  fontify-frame nil     Fontify any future frames  push  fontify-frame after-make-frame-functions     You can subsitute any font of your choosing for  Monospace-11   The set of available options is highly system-dependent  Using M-x set-default-font and looking at the tab-completions will give you some ideas  On my system  with Emacs 23 and anti-aliasing enabled  can choose system fonts by name  e g   Monospace  Sans Serif  etc

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This is another simple solution  Works in 24 as well   set-default-font  Monaco 14     Short cuts    C-   increases font size  C--  Decreases font size

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In AquaMacs CMD   and CMD - adjust the font size for the current buffer

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From Emacswiki  GNU Emacs 23 has a built-in key combination      C-xC-  and C-xC-- to increase or   decrease the buffer text size

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I ve got the following in my  emacs    defun fontify-frame  frame     set-frame-parameter frame  font  Monospace-11        Fontify current frame  fontify-frame nil     Fontify any future frames  push  fontify-frame after-make-frame-functions     You can subsitute any font of your choosing for  Monospace-11   The set of available options is highly system-dependent  Using M-x set-default-font and looking at the tab-completions will give you some ideas  On my system  with Emacs 23 and anti-aliasing enabled  can choose system fonts by name  e g   Monospace  Sans Serif  etc

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Here s a snippet that lets you directly specify the global font size using an interactive function    defun set-font-size         Set the font size      interactive     set-face-attribute     default nil  height     string-to-number      read-string  Font size     number-to-string  face-attribute  default  height nil

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set-face-attribute  default nil  height 100    The value is in 1 10pt  so 100 will give you 10pt  etc

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Open emacs in X11  goto menu Options  select  set default font       change the font size  Select  save options  in the same menu  Done

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set-face-attribute  default nil  height 100    The value is in 1 10pt  so 100 will give you 10pt  etc

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Press Shift and the first mouse button   You can change the font size in the following way   This website has more detail

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set-face-attribute  default nil  height 100    The value is in 1 10pt  so 100 will give you 10pt  etc

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zoom cfg and global-zoom cfg provide font size change bindings  from EmacsWiki    C-- or C-mousewheel-up  increases font size  C-  or C-mousewheel-down  decreases font size  C-0 reverts font size to default

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M-x customize-face RET default will allow you to set the face default face  on which all other faces base on  There you can set the font-size   Here is what is in my  emacs  actually  color-theme will set the basics  then my custom face setting will override some stuff  the custom-set-faces is written by emacs s customize-face mechanism      my colour theme is whateveryouwant     require  color-theme   color-theme-initialize   color-theme-whateveryouwant    custom-set-faces      custom-set-faces was added by Custom       If you edit it by hand  you could mess it up  so be careful       Your init file should contain only one such instance       If there is more than one  they won t work right     default   t   stipple nil  background  white   foreground  black   inverse-video nil  box nil  strike-through nil  overline nil  underline nil  slant normal  weight normal  height 98  width normal  foundry  unknown   family  DejaVu Sans Mono         font-lock-comment-face   t   foreground  darkorange4         font-lock-function-name-face   t   foreground  navy         font-lock-keyword-face   t   foreground  red4         font-lock-type-face   t   foreground  black         linum   t   inherit shadow  background  gray95         mode-line   t  nil nil nil nil  background  grey90    line-width -1  color nil  style released-button   black   box nil  width condensed  foundry  unknown   family  DejaVu Sans Mono

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zoom cfg and global-zoom cfg provide font size change bindings  from EmacsWiki    C-- or C-mousewheel-up  increases font size  C-  or C-mousewheel-down  decreases font size  C-0 reverts font size to default

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In NTEmacs 23 1  the Options menu has a  Set default font     option

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Here s an option for resizing the font heights interactively  one point at a time      font sizes  global-set-key  kbd  s-                     lambda                       interactive                     let   old-face-attribute  face-attribute  default  height                         set-face-attribute  default nil  height    old-face-attribute 10        global-set-key  kbd  s--                    lambda                       interactive                     let   old-face-attribute  face-attribute  default  height                         set-face-attribute  default nil  height  - old-face-attribute 10        This is preferable when you want to resize text in all buffers  I don t like solutions using text-scale-increase and text-scale-decrease as line numbers in the gutter can get cut off afterwards

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I use hydra package to control font increase decrease contiguously by pressing f2         f2 - - - -  which means that press f2 once  and then using   - to control only   and restore default font size by f2 0  Because i have keypad  so I also bind keypad to the font setting    defhydra hydra-zoom  global-map   lt f2 gt       zoom       lt kp-add gt   text-scale-increase  in          text-scale-increase  in       -  text-scale-decrease  out        lt kp-subtract gt   text-scale-decrease  out       0   text-scale-set 0   reset        lt kp-0 gt    text-scale-set 0   reset      And modern editor mouse control functionality supported by below key bindings  press control   mouse wheel to increase decrease font    global-set-key  kbd   lt C-wheel-up gt     text-scale-increase   global-set-key  kbd   lt C-wheel-down gt     text-scale-decrease

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M-x customize-face RET default will allow you to set the face default face  on which all other faces base on  There you can set the font-size   Here is what is in my  emacs  actually  color-theme will set the basics  then my custom face setting will override some stuff  the custom-set-faces is written by emacs s customize-face mechanism      my colour theme is whateveryouwant     require  color-theme   color-theme-initialize   color-theme-whateveryouwant    custom-set-faces      custom-set-faces was added by Custom       If you edit it by hand  you could mess it up  so be careful       Your init file should contain only one such instance       If there is more than one  they won t work right     default   t   stipple nil  background  white   foreground  black   inverse-video nil  box nil  strike-through nil  overline nil  underline nil  slant normal  weight normal  height 98  width normal  foundry  unknown   family  DejaVu Sans Mono         font-lock-comment-face   t   foreground  darkorange4         font-lock-function-name-face   t   foreground  navy         font-lock-keyword-face   t   foreground  red4         font-lock-type-face   t   foreground  black         linum   t   inherit shadow  background  gray95         mode-line   t  nil nil nil nil  background  grey90    line-width -1  color nil  style released-button   black   box nil  width condensed  foundry  unknown   family  DejaVu Sans Mono

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Firefox and other programs allow you to increase and decrease the font size with C-  and C--  I set up my  emacs so that I have that same ability by adding these lines of code    global-set-key  C-kp-add   text-scale-increase    global-set-key  C-kp-subtract   text-scale-decrease

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Press Shift and the first mouse button   You can change the font size in the following way   This website has more detail

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Aquamacs    set-face-attribute  default nil  font  Monaco-16      From the Emacs Wiki Globally Change the Default Font  it says you can use either of these    set-face-attribute  default nil  font FONT     set-frame-font FONT nil t    Where FONT is something like  Monaco-16   e g     set-face-attribute  default nil  font  Monaco-16      There was an extra closing parenthesis in the first suggestion on the wiki  which caused an error on startup   I finally noticed the extra closing parenthesis  and I subsequently corrected the suggestion on the wiki   Then both of the suggestions worked for me

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I ve got the following in my  emacs    defun fontify-frame  frame     set-frame-parameter frame  font  Monospace-11        Fontify current frame  fontify-frame nil     Fontify any future frames  push  fontify-frame after-make-frame-functions     You can subsitute any font of your choosing for  Monospace-11   The set of available options is highly system-dependent  Using M-x set-default-font and looking at the tab-completions will give you some ideas  On my system  with Emacs 23 and anti-aliasing enabled  can choose system fonts by name  e g   Monospace  Sans Serif  etc

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I ve got the following in my  emacs    defun fontify-frame  frame     set-frame-parameter frame  font  Monospace-11        Fontify current frame  fontify-frame nil     Fontify any future frames  push  fontify-frame after-make-frame-functions     You can subsitute any font of your choosing for  Monospace-11   The set of available options is highly system-dependent  Using M-x set-default-font and looking at the tab-completions will give you some ideas  On my system  with Emacs 23 and anti-aliasing enabled  can choose system fonts by name  e g   Monospace  Sans Serif  etc

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Press Shift and the first mouse button   You can change the font size in the following way   This website has more detail

User · Answer

M-x customize-face RET default will allow you to set the face default face  on which all other faces base on  There you can set the font-size   Here is what is in my  emacs  actually  color-theme will set the basics  then my custom face setting will override some stuff  the custom-set-faces is written by emacs s customize-face mechanism      my colour theme is whateveryouwant     require  color-theme   color-theme-initialize   color-theme-whateveryouwant    custom-set-faces      custom-set-faces was added by Custom       If you edit it by hand  you could mess it up  so be careful       Your init file should contain only one such instance       If there is more than one  they won t work right     default   t   stipple nil  background  white   foreground  black   inverse-video nil  box nil  strike-through nil  overline nil  underline nil  slant normal  weight normal  height 98  width normal  foundry  unknown   family  DejaVu Sans Mono         font-lock-comment-face   t   foreground  darkorange4         font-lock-function-name-face   t   foreground  navy         font-lock-keyword-face   t   foreground  red4         font-lock-type-face   t   foreground  black         linum   t   inherit shadow  background  gray95         mode-line   t  nil nil nil nil  background  grey90    line-width -1  color nil  style released-button   black   box nil  width condensed  foundry  unknown   family  DejaVu Sans Mono

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I you re happy with console emacs  emacs -nw   modern vterm implementations  like gnome-terminal  tend to have better font support  Plus if you get used to that  you can then use tmux  and so working with your full environment on remote servers becomes possible  even without X

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This is another simple solution  Works in 24 as well   set-default-font  Monaco 14     Short cuts    C-   increases font size  C--  Decreases font size

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set-face-attribute  default nil  height 100    The value is in 1 10pt  so 100 will give you 10pt  etc

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Here s an option for resizing the font heights interactively  one point at a time      font sizes  global-set-key  kbd  s-                     lambda                       interactive                     let   old-face-attribute  face-attribute  default  height                         set-face-attribute  default nil  height    old-face-attribute 10        global-set-key  kbd  s--                    lambda                       interactive                     let   old-face-attribute  face-attribute  default  height                         set-face-attribute  default nil  height  - old-face-attribute 10        This is preferable when you want to resize text in all buffers  I don t like solutions using text-scale-increase and text-scale-decrease as line numbers in the gutter can get cut off afterwards

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I you re happy with console emacs  emacs -nw   modern vterm implementations  like gnome-terminal  tend to have better font support  Plus if you get used to that  you can then use tmux  and so working with your full environment on remote servers becomes possible  even without X

User · Answer

From Emacswiki  GNU Emacs 23 has a built-in key combination      C-xC-  and C-xC-- to increase or   decrease the buffer text size

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I use hydra package to control font increase decrease contiguously by pressing f2         f2 - - - -  which means that press f2 once  and then using   - to control only   and restore default font size by f2 0  Because i have keypad  so I also bind keypad to the font setting    defhydra hydra-zoom  global-map   lt f2 gt       zoom       lt kp-add gt   text-scale-increase  in          text-scale-increase  in       -  text-scale-decrease  out        lt kp-subtract gt   text-scale-decrease  out       0   text-scale-set 0   reset        lt kp-0 gt    text-scale-set 0   reset      And modern editor mouse control functionality supported by below key bindings  press control   mouse wheel to increase decrease font    global-set-key  kbd   lt C-wheel-up gt     text-scale-increase   global-set-key  kbd   lt C-wheel-down gt     text-scale-decrease

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Aquamacs    set-face-attribute  default nil  font  Monaco-16      From the Emacs Wiki Globally Change the Default Font  it says you can use either of these    set-face-attribute  default nil  font FONT     set-frame-font FONT nil t    Where FONT is something like  Monaco-16   e g     set-face-attribute  default nil  font  Monaco-16      There was an extra closing parenthesis in the first suggestion on the wiki  which caused an error on startup   I finally noticed the extra closing parenthesis  and I subsequently corrected the suggestion on the wiki   Then both of the suggestions worked for me

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Firefox and other programs allow you to increase and decrease the font size with C-  and C--  I set up my  emacs so that I have that same ability by adding these lines of code    global-set-key  C-kp-add   text-scale-increase    global-set-key  C-kp-subtract   text-scale-decrease

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Here s a snippet that lets you directly specify the global font size using an interactive function    defun set-font-size         Set the font size      interactive     set-face-attribute     default nil  height     string-to-number      read-string  Font size     number-to-string  face-attribute  default  height nil

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In AquaMacs CMD   and CMD - adjust the font size for the current buffer

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