So I started off and created a new XML file to get the fonts into the theme. Well, it doesn’t give you an easy way to customize the fontsįortunately, with a little searching, I found a web site that explained how to hack together a Theme Font file: XML Hacking Font Themes.
I headed back over to Google only to find out that Office 2016 on the Mac does not support the creation of themes with fonts in them. It turns out that when you use custom fonts in a theme, you have to deploy a special XML file that describes those fonts. Today I started getting reports that the fonts were not working in the theme. I was able to figure out where to place the theme file, so I went about my merry way packaging up the theme (along with a script to move it into place) and the fonts that were part of the them, and then I deployed it. Not having done this before, I did what I always do: I searched Google for the answer.
I was given the task of deploying a custom theme for Office 2016 the other day.
