Custom fonts

The Custom fonts tab holds your organization's own font files, such as a commissioned house face. A brand kit chooses its display and body faces from this list or from the Google Fonts catalog, which needs no upload. Add a file here only when your face is not on Google Fonts.

Who can use itCopy Anchor Link

Owners and admins (brand_kit:manage), the same people who manage brand kits. The tab is missing for Members and Viewers, and the page is not found if one of them opens its address.

Read the listCopy Anchor Link

The list shows each font's Font (its family name, drawn in the face itself), its File (the format and size, such as "WOFF2 · 214 KB"), Used by (the brand kits that name it, or a dash) and Added (who added it and when). Choose a font's name to open its page. With no fonts you see No custom fonts yet.

Add a fontCopy Anchor Link

1. Choose Add custom font.
2. Choose Choose a font file and pick the file. It must be WOFF2, WOFF, TTF or OTF and up to 5 MB. The file is checked as it is uploaded: one that is too large or not one of those types is refused with the reason, for example "This file type isn't accepted. Use a WOFF2, WOFF, TTF or OTF file." If the upload fails for another reason you see Upload failed. Try again.
3. Enter the Family name, up to 120 characters, as your designers call it. It is what brand kits and the list show, and you can rename it later.
4. Check the Preview, which draws a sample headline in the face you uploaded.
5. Tick the Licence box: "Our organization holds a licence that permits this face to be embedded in rendered images and video."
6. Choose Add custom font.

You see "[family] added. Brand kits can use it now." and the font's page opens.

The licence acknowledgmentCopy Anchor Link

Nuvelics cannot check that you hold the right to use a font, so it records who ticked the box and when. You tick it once for each file: when you add a font, and again when you replace its file. Brand kits that use the font do not ask again. Without it the font is not added: "Acknowledge the licence to add this font."

What the form checksCopy Anchor Link

• A font file is required: "Font file is required".
• A family name is required: "Family name is required".
• Two fonts in your organization cannot share a family name, whatever the capitalisation, and one file cannot be added as two fonts. A name that is taken is refused on the Family name field.
• If the font cannot be added for another reason you see "Couldn't add the font. Try again."

Open a fontCopy Anchor Link

The font's page shows a Preview with a sample headline, a sample standfirst and the alphabet, and its Details: the Font file, the Licence (who acknowledged it and on what date) and Used by, each brand kit that names the font with a link to it, or "No brand kit yet". At the foot are when the font was added and last updated, and by whom.

Rename a font or replace its fileCopy Anchor Link

1. Open the font and choose Edit.
2. To rename it, change the Family name.
3. To replace the file, choose Choose another file and pick the new one. A Preview of the new file appears, and you must tick the licence box again: "Our organization holds a licence that permits the new file to be embedded in rendered images and video."
4. Choose Save.

You see Saved. A rename or a new file reaches every brand kit that uses the font at once, and while kits use it the form warns "Saving changes this face in [kits] at once." If another font already has the name, or the file belongs to another font, the save is refused. Nothing is saved if you change nothing.

If you replace the file without ticking the box you see "Acknowledge the licence for the new file."

Remove a fontCopy Anchor Link

1. Open the font and open its Custom font actions menu.
2. Choose Remove font and confirm in Remove custom font?. The font and its file are deleted for good and this cannot be undone ("[family] removed.").

A font that a brand kit uses cannot be removed. The menu item is dimmed and names the kits: "Remove font (used by [kits]; choose another face in those kits first)". Change the face in each of those kits, then remove the font.

Other ways to manage fontsCopy Anchor Link

• API: Custom fonts.
• Choosing a font for a kit: Brand kits. You can also add a custom font from the face chooser there without leaving the kit.