When you need custom fonts
Many brands are defined by a specific typeface — a bespoke face or a licensed family that appears nowhere else. If your guidelines call for that exact type, you can bring it into your branding profile so Waxe sets your documents in it.
Adding a custom font
Open your branding profile
Fonts sit alongside your colours and logo. See Set up your branding profile.
Add your typeface
Provide the font you're licensed to use for your documents.
Assign roles
Choose what it sets — headings, body text, or both.
Save and generate
Your next document is composed in your own type.
Licensing and rights
Fonts are licensed software. Only use a typeface you're entitled to use in the way your documents will be shared — including being embedded in exported PDFs.
- Confirm your licence covers digital documents and embedding.
- Keep your licence records in case you need to demonstrate rights.
- Choose a freely-licensed alternative if you're unsure about a face.
Getting clean results
A few habits keep custom type looking sharp in a finished, paginated document.
- Provide the weights you actually use — at least a regular and a bold — so headings and emphasis render correctly.
- Pick a face that stays legible at document sizes, not only on screen.
- Check that your chosen language and characters are covered by the font.
- Review the result in the editor and adjust hierarchy if needed.
If you operate across scripts — for example Latin alongside Arabic for the Middle East — make sure your font covers the characters you need, or pair it with one that does.
If a font doesn't apply
If your custom font isn't showing up as expected, the cause is usually a missing weight or an unsupported character set.
- Add the missing weight if bold or emphasis looks like a fallback.
- Confirm the characters you're using are present in the font.
- Re-check the file if the upload didn't complete cleanly.