Adding new font to Visual Studio 2008

Help! Sob

We're aiming for a super early season launch for our next season and, on top of the craziness surrounding that, my team has decided they want a brand new renewal form. I've decided to build this in Visual Studio instead of InfoMaker for a few reasons and am already floundering with that task alone. To make things even more interesting they want to use a specific font type (relating to our new branding).

We installed the new font on the server and did a reboot. I can see the font listed in Fonts folder under the Control Panel. I can select it in other applications (ex. Notepad) but it's not showing up as an option in VS. I've tried googling the crap out of this and I'm deeply concerned that the font type is not supported for VS. It's an OpenType font.

Has anyone successfully added new fonts to VS? Is there an extra step that I possibly missed in order to make it show up? Is there any possible thing I can try to make this happen?

If I have to tell them their font isn't going to work I need to be 150% sure there's no possible alternative. They won't be happy about it.

Thanks in advance!