Embedded PowerBI: Custom font that is not installed on the user's machine

[emilerobi]

Trying my luck here in case someone miraculously found a workaround or in case Microsoft published a change supporting this.

We are trying to import a custom font (Inter) to display our embedded reports in. We have a B2B app where we embed some reports that are accessed by our customers. The problem is that if the user does not have it installed (which is the case for most people), it will revert back to a default font like Times New Roman. 

Is there a way to display the right font without it being installed locally by the user? It seems crazy to think this wouldn't be supported by embedded powerbi, style guides are important to companies and changing fonts for one part of the app breaks the experience.

Thank you!

[rufmau68]

i have the same problem, in an embedded for customer app i need to use AGid font (titillium), it works if i publish to web my power bi content, but in embedded for customer, my titillium font pass to times new roman....

i cant manage it inside any .css ? or other www component ? (my app is developed in html and php to manage power bi contents...)

thanks a lot for help

bye

mauro

[emilerobi]

It's impossible, better use PBI default fonts.

Otherwise you make your users download your font, which is quite a bad solution in my opinion. As a user I would not download fonts.

[rufmau68]

but from a webapp via a browser ? its impossible ? not even if i install ttf on the webserver the hosts my webapp ? ;-(

[v-yiruan-msft]

Hi @emilerobi ,

Thank you for reaching out to us with your question about displaying a custom font in embedded PowerBI reports.According to your description, it seems that you want to get a solution or workaround to display the custom font even though the user' machine didn't install that custom font. When embedding a Power BI report with a custom font in a custom web app, the custom font may not be displayed if it is not installed on the user's machine. This is because Power BI loads the machine fonts, and if the custom font is not loaded on the user's machine, it will not be displayed.

However, there are some workarounds you can consider:

1. Use web-safe fonts: These are fonts that are pre-installed by many operating systems. While not all systems have the same fonts installed, you can use a web safe font stack to choose several fonts that look similar, and are installed on the various systems that you want to support.

2. Convert the text to image: If only a small number of sections require special fonts, you can consider to use this method.

Best Regards

[emilerobi]

Thanks, so basically you are confirming that this is not supported in powerbi.

unfortunately the workarounds are not acceptable. We have brand guidelines to respect and that means the areas in powerBI will look disconnected from the rest of our app with different fonts 😞

[lbendlin]

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