The font I typically like to use in my configuration is M+ 1m, which can be downloaded and installed from here!
After installing the above font, the following can be placed in your .emacs to make it the default font:
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
'(font . "-unknown-M+ 1m-light-normal-normal-*-*-98-*-*-d-0-iso10646-1"))If you don’t want to make any changes to your .emacs, you can just tangle this file, though be warned that this will overwrite your =.Xresources= file if you have made any modifications to it.
If you are okay with this, the key combo to install it is C-c C-v t. (But if not, you can copy it in there too!)
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintsfull
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb
Emacs.font: M+ 1m-13
After you have this set up, in order to apply it, you either need to restart your X server, or run the following code block and restart Emacs:
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources