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Fontconfig will also look at your ~/.fonts directory: no sudo required.

I saw this option in other forums when I was putting together this post, but it didn't work well for me (personally). Restarted my machine a few times and still wouldn't show the custom font in some applications. Went the `sudo` route and it worked the first time. YMMV.

Some apps might not support live reload, but at least native Gtk and KDE apps should work well. I may have had to reload LibreOffice in the past, but I think that's resolved as well, though I haven't tried in a while.

You can also run fc-cache in ~/.fonts I think.

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