diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/fix-birt-custom-font-support.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/fix-birt-custom-font-support.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a6bfe667a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/fix-birt-custom-font-support.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+title: "Birt: Custom font support"
+type: fix
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.properties b/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 92dc5245c5..d7ef911b8b 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -120,7 +120,10 @@ axelor.report.resource.path =
 reports.design.dir = {user.home}/data/reports
 
 # Reports custom fonts path
-reports.fonts.config = fonts/ReportFonts.xml
+# if file is not found then birt will use its own font
+# if this property is commented then framework will use its own font
+# sample of this file is there at fonts/sample/fontsConfig.xml
+reports.fonts.config = {user.home}/fontsConfig.xml
 
 # Enable/disable demo data
 # ~~~~~
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/fonts/ReportFonts.xml b/src/main/webapp/fonts/ReportFonts.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index a10c60ff40..0000000000
--- a/src/main/webapp/fonts/ReportFonts.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,171 +0,0 @@
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-  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/jasperreports http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/xsd/jasperreport.xsd"
-  name="FontsReport" pageWidth="595" pageHeight="842" whenNoDataType="AllSectionsNoDetail"
-  columnWidth="555" leftMargin="20" rightMargin="20" topMargin="30" bottomMargin="30"
-  uuid="8c1609b4-a52a-445f-acc9-69218b035b22">
-  <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.docx.embed.fonts" value="true"/>
-  <property name="net.sf.jasperreports.export.pptx.embed.fonts" value="true"/>
-  <title>
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-      <staticText>
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-          uuid="67cc85d2-1691-441c-8ed6-b65c59f98fbc"/>
-        <text><![CDATA[The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.]]></text>
-      </staticText>
-      <staticText>
-        <reportElement x="160" y="50" width="390" height="40"
-          uuid="e0d254ad-1e47-4792-b380-f7afc5e4faa5"/>
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-      </staticText>
-      <staticText>
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-          uuid="3c5505db-55e9-4aca-ad3a-ae92898ba1bb"/>
-        <textElement>
-          <font size="12"/>
-        </textElement>
-        <text><![CDATA[The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.]]></text>
-      </staticText>
-      <staticText>
-        <reportElement x="160" y="100" width="390" height="40"
-          uuid="7d953de8-7629-4138-a296-dfe463cba691"/>
-        <text><![CDATA[<staticText><reportElement x="0" y="100" width="150" height="40"/><textElement><font size="14"/></textElement><text>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</text></staticText>]]></text>
-      </staticText>
-      <staticText>
-        <reportElement x="0" y="150" width="150" height="40"
-          uuid="2a2117f5-ea77-409f-a44c-9fd0551f8862"/>
-        <textElement>
-          <font fontName="Lobster Two" size="12"/>
-        </textElement>
-        <text><![CDATA[The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.]]></text>
-      </staticText>
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-        <reportElement x="160" y="150" width="390" height="40"
-          uuid="39ce42dd-d5fa-43dd-a0de-de90b9e4b977"/>
-        <text><![CDATA[<staticText><reportElement x="0" y="150" width="150" height="40"/><textElement><font fontName="Lobster Two" size="12"/></textElement><text>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</text></staticText>]]></text>
-      </staticText>
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-        <reportElement x="0" y="200" width="150" height="40"
-          uuid="3828a320-c835-4eed-98d2-e6cb0324817b"/>
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-        </textElement>
-        <text><![CDATA[The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.]]></text>
-      </staticText>
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-      </staticText>
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-          uuid="f96f1263-2d31-4eef-951e-2e39ada33878"/>
-        <textElement>
-          <font fontName="DejaVu Serif" size="12" isBold="false"/>
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-        <text><![CDATA[The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.]]></text>
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-        <text><![CDATA[The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.]]></text>
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-        <textElement>
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-        </textElement>
-        <text><![CDATA[The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.]]></text>
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-      <staticText>
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-      </staticText>
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-        </textElement>
-        <text><![CDATA[The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.]]></text>
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-      </staticText>
-      <staticText>
-        <reportElement x="0" y="450" width="150" height="40" forecolor="#FF0000"
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-        <text><![CDATA[The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.]]></text>
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-        <text><![CDATA[The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.]]></text>
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\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/fonts/sample/fontsConfig.xml b/src/main/webapp/fonts/sample/fontsConfig.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..299c0810c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/webapp/fonts/sample/fontsConfig.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE font>
+<font>
+  <font-aliases>
+    <mapping name="sans-serif" font-family="Helvetica"/>
+  </font-aliases>
+  <font-paths>
+    <path path="C:/windows/fonts"/>
+    <path path="/usr/share/fonts/truetype"/>
+    <path path="/usr/share/fonts/TTF"/>
+  </font-paths>
+</font>