# Custom Fonts in 8.3 Beta

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-fonts-in-8-3-beta/110239>\
**Category:** Ignition 8.3 Early Access\
**Tags:** ignition83, perspective\
**Created:** [August 28, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-fonts-in-8-3-beta/110239 "2025-08-28T12:29:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-fonts-in-8-3-beta/110239/10 "2025-10-15T17:56:57Z")

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Fonts don't have anything in their `config.json`, their only content for now should be an empty JSON object `{}`:

> [@Bring Back Direct CSS Editing in Perspective – Keep Dev Workflows Fast & Transparent](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bring-back-direct-css-editing-in-perspective-keep-dev-workflows-fast-transparent/109627/7):
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> This is an unnecessarily alarmist post. As described [here](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/custom-icon-library-in-8-3/109259/2), you absolutely can create Perspective's extra resources (fonts, themes, icons) now by directly editing files on disk. The location is different and two extra files are necessary - that's the only change. For themes, take the same instructions I gave for icons, but in your config.json have a single entry "entrypoint": "someFile.css" that points to the 'primary' file. For fonts, create an empty JSON object in the config.json. The overall…

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