If you are a Mac user and have tried to use fonts that you installed in your local Fonts directory, you may have had some trouble. I’ve tried to fix this a few times, but never found the hint I needed. Today that changed!

Create a ~/.fonts.conf that contains the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to configure system font access -->
<fontconfig>
 
<!-- Font directory list -->
<!-- Add to system list -->
 
        <dir>/System/Library/Fonts</dir>
        <dir>/Library/Fonts</dir>
        <dir>~/Library/Fonts</dir>
 
</fontconfig>

This should enable any font-config enabled application to find your precious fonts!