In XMonad Prompt I use this to select the font: font = "xft:DejaVu Sans Condensed-8:normal" and in xmobar this: font = "xft:DejaVu Sans Condensed-8:normal" Ah, the same, I see. In GNU Emacs the font is described as: (:slant normal :weight normal :height 111 :width condensed :foundry "unknown" :family "DejaVu Sans")