| Announcement ID | MC877312 | Published Date | 08-29-2024 | |
| Service | SharePoint | Last Updated | 09-11-2024 | |
| Category | Stay informed | Expiration Date | 11-25-2024 | |
| Roadmap ID | 375490 | Action Required by Date | ||
| Tags | Admin impact, Feature update, User impact | |||
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| Microsoft SharePoint introduces custom fonts in the new Brand center, enabling organizations to express their brand creatively on SharePoint and Viva Connections sites. Rollout began in April 2024, with general availability expected by mid-October 2024. This feature supports various web parts and is available by default. |
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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. 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 late September 2024 (previously mid-September) 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:
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:
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. |
