Microsoft Viva: Introducing custom fonts for Viva Connections Desktop [MC876286]

The new Microsoft SharePoint brand center is now available in Preview and will soon be GA. The new SharePoint brand center includes custom fonts to express your organization’s brand and creative expression in your Viva Connections Desktop experiences. Once the SharePoint brand center has been enabled in your organization, you will unlock the power of custom fonts within SharePoint and Viva Connections.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 374866.

[When will this 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:]

Before this rollout, custom fonts are only available in SharePoint or Viva Connections Desktop after the admin enables the SharePoint brand center.

After the rollout, custom fonts will only be available in SharePoint or Viva Connections Desktop after the admin enables the SharePoint brand center. Your organization’s designated brand manager (the site owner of the SharePoint brand center) will upload, create, and manage your organization’s brand assets, including organization fonts, in the in the Brand fonts library of the SharePoint brand center. 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 in SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop.

A font package is a combination of two font families that will be applied uniformly as designated by the brand manager using the font package creation tool.

Microsoft provides 8 default font packages with no need to configure a font package in the SharePoint brand center:

• 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 SharePoint brand center 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 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 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:

• Welcome/Greeting text
• Section headings
• Dashboard cards Level 1
• Resources

Custom fonts will be on by default when the SharePoint brand center is enabled. 

[What you need to do to prepare]

Learn more: SharePoint Brand Center – SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.