Microsoft SharePoint: Introducing custom fonts [MC877312]

With our new SharePoint Brand center, we are 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. We began rolling out in early April 2024 and completed late June 2024.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early September 2024 and expect to complete by mid-September 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect 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:

• Countdown timer
• Events
• Highlighted content
• Image gallery
• Link
• Organization chart
• Site activity
• Weather
• World clock

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:

• Microsoft default: Segoe UI
• Amasis Pro
• Aptos-Aptos Serif
• Georgia Pro Condensed-Verdana Pro Condensed
• Office: Aptos Display-Aptos
• Sitka Heading-Sitka Text
• Verdana Pro-Georgia Pro
• Walbaum-Trade Gothic Next

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:

• Site header – site title
• Hub header – hub title
• Navigation (hub and site) – links and labels
• News web part
• Page title region
• Quick links web part
• Button
• Dashboard for Viva Connections
• Image web part
• Site header – finish
• Section heading
• Hero web part
• Sites web part
• People web part
• Call to action web part
• Text web part (RTE)
• All web part titles (from Microsoft)
• Countdown timer
• Events
• Highlighted content
• Image gallery
• Link
• Organization chart
• Site activity
• Weather
• World clock

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.