How to use the default font used by i3 status bar in the terminal emulator

While this should work in most cases without user configuration, it is not fool proof. i3 looks for a configuration in 4 locations, two of them depend on a environment variable. You can use `i3 -C -V` to see which file i3 actually uses.

OP obviously didn't configure their own font, otherwise they'd know which one it is. This question was about which i3 uses per default, imho.

I am not sure if there are any packages/distributions configured that way, but i3 does also look in `/etc/xdg/i3/config` (or rather `$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/i3/config`) for its configuration. Even before it looks for `~/.i3/config` or `/etc/i3/config`. So it may also get its configuration from there.

Yes, but again, this doesn't matter here. We are talking about the default configuration, not the user configuration.

:) `/etc/xdg/i3/config` would not be the user configuration. But as I said, I do not know, if it is actually used as default configuration by any package maintainer. So yes, your answer works for all default configurations I know about and I was just nitpicking. I am shutting up now. +1 from me.