Microsoft SharePoint introduces custom fonts through the SharePoint Brand center, allowing organizations to express their brand creatively on sites and pages. This feature is part of Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375490 and includes new web parts supporting custom fonts. Rollout phases include Public Preview, Targeted Release, and General Availability, spanning from April to October 2024. Brand managers can upload and manage fonts in the Brand center, creating custom font packages for SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop experiences. Default Microsoft font packages are provided, and the feature is available by default with no admin action required.
MC877312 – Updated September 11, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With our new SharePoint Brand center, Microsoft is introducing the ability to use custom fonts to express your organization’s brand and creative expression on your sites and pages. Once the SharePoint Brand center has been enabled in your organization, you can use custom fonts within SharePoint and Viva Connections.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375490.
When this will happen:
Public Preview: Available now. Microsoft began rolling out in early April 2024 and completed late June 2024.
Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out early September 2024 and expects to complete by mid-September 2024.
General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out late September 2024 (previously mid-September) and expects to complete by mid-October 2024.
How this will affect your organization:
This feature update will introduce new web parts with custom fonts support including:
The custom fonts feature for the SharePoint brand center enables the use of custom fonts within SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop experiences. Your organization’s designated brand manager will upload, create, and manage your organization’s brand assets, including organization fonts, in the Brand center app making them available to apply in the Change the Look experience.
Brand managers, who are the site owners of the Brand center site, will upload and manage your organization fonts in the Brand fonts library of the SharePoint Brand center app. After uploading and making a brand font visible for use, the brand manager will be able to create custom font packages to use these fonts within SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop.
A font package is a combination of two font families that will be applied to the experiences uniformly as designated by the brand manager using the font package creation tool. Microsoft provides a set of 8 font packages available for use with no need to configure a font package in the Brand center app.
Microsoft provided default font packages:
Note: In multi-geo environments custom fonts and the brand center app are configured in the primary geo. Custom fonts will be available in any additional geo where SharePoint Organization Asset Libraries (OAL) are used and public Content Delivery Network (CDN) is enabled. If there are no OAL or public CDN in the geo, the custom fonts feature will not be enabled in the Change the Look experience for sites in that geo location.
Creating a custom font package in the SharePoint brand center app will enable the “From your organization” section of the Change the Look > Font experience.
With this release custom fonts will be supported in the following:
Learn more about multi-geo in OneDrive and SharePoint.
This update is available by default.
What you need to do to prepare:
This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.
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