After upgrading from Debian Stretch to Buster I had a problem, where konsole was re-setting its fonts preference.
The font I prefer is Terminus Bold, the bold part was going away though with each restart. It was odd and looked like a bug. I found this problem report:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/88hzdb/konsole_bold_font/
It did not help though, so here is what worked in my case:
rm .config/session/konsole_*