Mal wieder lange dran rumgefummelt, bis es passte.
I have figured out how to use any font in xterm. So for the case of the mentioned Inconsolata font size 14, the following works:
Add these 2 lines into ~/.Xresources (create it if it does not exist)
XTermfaceName: Inconsolata
XTermfaceSize: 14
Then, tell xterm to use this file:
export XENVIRONMENT="${HOME}/.Xresources"
Preferably add this export into .bashrc, so that it is persistent.
comment out the font settings in ~/.clusterssh/config, if it exists:
# terminal_font=6x13
Quelle: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/230106/cluster-ssh-specify-terminal-font
