In the past I could never get a nice font with Edwin and OSX, there were always scaling issues. Recently I found the Terminus font which you can install as a TTF but also has the bitmaps included. So if you use your display dpi and you use one of the bitmap px sizes of 12 to 32 in steps of 2 And set pt = (px/dpi)*72. The rounding seems to be up so for instance (22/92)*72 = 17.2. 17 Still looks awful but 18 as set below seems great. In .edwin: ((ref-command set-font) "-misc-terminus ttf -medium-r-normal--18-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1”)