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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Add a font

I want to add MONTSERRAT as a font to choose from in all my reports. How can I do that?
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Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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6 years ago

With the addition of Themes, this is now possible. As I was also looking for the solution and stumbled on this same query which looks unanswered, I thought of posting the solution from my end which is working fine for me.

 

1. Go to https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-community-report-theme-gallery/ and download the JSON file for any theme you like.

2. Open the JSON file using Notepad++ or similar editor and add below lines. Change the font family to one you would like to have.

"visualStyles":{
	"*":{
		"*":{
			"*":[{"fontFamily": "HELVETICA NEUE"
			}]
			}
		}
	},

3. Import and select the theme in PowerBI to set the font family for entire report. This should set you up.

 

Cheers,

AK

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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5 years ago

Hi Anonymous , 

 

Do you know if there is a way that I can get the fonts to work on the service and embedded as well? 

 

  • SofBL's avatar
    SofBL
    Advocate II
    2 years ago

    The problem is that we can customize the font basicaly in the json theme file. But https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/fundamentals/power-bi-browsers states clearly that if the font is not installed on the user machine that is viewing the report in the service it will not work. They even say dont use these default fonts if you think that mac users are using your reports. In some documents the fonts are embedded, like a pdf document. But the power bi service is not a document its more of a website. Maybe the solution would be using webfonts like in CSS https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_fonts.asp but that is not implemented in the power bi service as of now.