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(emacs)Mac Font Specs

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Specifying Fonts on the Mac
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   It is rare that you need to specify a font name in Emacs; usually
you specify face attributes instead.  But when you do need to specify a
font name in Emacs on the Mac, use a standard X font name:

     -MAKER-FAMILY-WEIGHT-SLANT-WIDTHTYPE-STYLE...
     ...-PIXELS-HEIGHT-HORIZ-VERT-SPACING-WIDTH-CHARSET

Note: Font X.  Wildcards are supported as they are on X.

   Native Apple fonts in Mac Roman encoding has maker name `apple' and
charset `mac-roman'.  For example 12-point Monaco can be specified by
the name `-apple-monaco-*-12-*-mac-roman'.

   Native Apple Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean fonts have charsets `big5-0', `gb2312.1980-0',
`jisx0208.1983-sjis', and `ksc5601.1989-0', respectively.

   Single-byte fonts converted from GNU fonts in BDF format, which are
not in the Mac Roman encoding, have foundry, family, and character sets
encoded in the names of their font suitcases.  E.g., the font suitcase
`ETL-Fixed-ISO8859-1' contains fonts which can be referred to by the
name `-ETL-fixed-*-iso8859-1'.