The SharePoint Brand Center is here! However, before you celebrate with your customers and peers, did you know?
There are some important things to consider and certainly to communicate with the marketing team within the organization. I had the great honor and opportunity to attend the Microsoft 365 Community conference and speak directly to Microsoft about real business case scenarios.
1. Even though custom fonts can be added to the brand center, there is currently no way to limit the access to certain security groups. If your organization has different fonts across affiliated companies, the global marketing team must have a good communication strategy to make sure it is implemented in the right way. This might feel like an “overkill” when we talk about fonts, but in my experience, this is a very, VERY hot topic for the marketing team. In short, all who have access to add a custom font to their SharePoint site, will be able to select from all available fonts. I urge you to inform your customers about this.
2. Custom fonts are here, sweet let’s implement it, should be simple? Well… Currently, there is no script or user interface to add a font to a Hub site and have it inherited to all connected sites. The administrator must manually update each site with the desired font. However, I do not feel like there is a need to panic. Just have a little patience and there will be a smooth way to allow the font to be distributed through all desired sites in no time.
3. I have not tested this myself yet. But Microsoft has promised that there will be a very simple way for SPFx developers to take part of the custom font for their applications. I am really looking forward to this feature, because it would be very embarrassing when employees see my solutions having a completely different font… I would hide in shame.
For more information about the SharePoint Brand Center, see the Microsoft documentation below or listen to the Intrazone!
Microsoft documentation: https://lnkd.in/dGRyZxbp
The Intrazone: https://lnkd.in/dC3ukEH9
