diff --git a/latex/thesis.lyx b/latex/thesis.lyx
index 7b1a7a5c60306d850503e723a9b84a1122d61d42..4c0dbcbe61fe64a42f007d5872837e1341a7812c 100644
--- a/latex/thesis.lyx
+++ b/latex/thesis.lyx
@@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ The utuftthesis.cls defines a new thesis class, which is based on the report
 \begin_layout Plain Layout
 - includereferences: true / false (default:false) include reference pages
  when calculating the total number of pages
-\begin_inset Newline newline
-\end_inset
+\end_layout
 
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
 - realtimesnewroman: true / false (default:false) use Times New Roman instead
  of LaTeX fonts with XeLaTeX.
  Requires the font to be installed on the system / provided in the document
@@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ The utuftthesis.cls defines a new thesis class, which is based on the report
  Other fonts can be defined with 
 \backslash
 setmainfont.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+- sharelatex: true / false (default: false) don't attempt to use (c) system
+ fonts, instead read them from the project repository
 \begin_inset Newline newline
 \end_inset
 
diff --git a/latex/thesis.tex b/latex/thesis.tex
index 04e5036f0b38a8514b1b56cbeb4b38f51891d919..cd6d370293c6410e100f69ed9b11140d5cc90d76 100644
--- a/latex/thesis.tex
+++ b/latex/thesis.tex
@@ -42,11 +42,15 @@ document appearance and hyphenation
 text at the beginning of each Chapter
 
 - includereferences: true / false (default:false) include reference
-pages when calculating the total number of pages\\
+pages when calculating the total number of pages
+
 - realtimesnewroman: true / false (default:false) use Times New Roman
 instead of LaTeX fonts with XeLaTeX. Requires the font to be installed
 on the system / provided in the document directory. Other fonts can
-be defined with \textbackslash setmainfont.\\
+be defined with \textbackslash setmainfont.
+
+- sharelatex: true / false (default: false) don't attempt to use (c)
+system fonts, instead read them from the project repository\\
 \\
 Traditionally the best places to learn (La)TeX are probably the manual
 pages for each package http://www.ctan.org/ and http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf.
diff --git a/latex/utuftthesis.cls b/latex/utuftthesis.cls
index ddfc89b7cf65c1047e9a8732bb3710b2ae43572f..3413f578f9061beeb45cefc12b2c8fbce7760b95 100644
--- a/latex/utuftthesis.cls
+++ b/latex/utuftthesis.cls
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 \DeclareStringOption[true]{hidechapters}
 \DeclareStringOption[false]{includereferences}
 \DeclareStringOption[false]{realtimesnewroman}
+\DeclareStringOption[false]{sharelatex}
 
 %% Process given options
 \ProcessKeyvalOptions*
@@ -59,7 +60,17 @@
   \setotherlanguage{english}
   \else
   \fi
-  \ifthenelse{\equal{\utuftthesis@realtimesnewroman}{true}}{\setmainfont{Times New Roman}}{}
+  \ifthenelse{\equal{\utuftthesis@realtimesnewroman}{true}}{
+    \ifthenelse{\equal{\utuftthesis@sharelatex}{true}}{
+      \setmainfont[
+      BoldFont=timesbd.ttf,
+      ItalicFont=timesi.ttf,
+      BoldItalicFont=timesbi.ttf
+      ]{times.ttf}
+    }{
+    \setmainfont{Times New Roman}
+    }
+  }{}
 \else
 % JH: modified latin to UTF-8 encoding cues to make Scandinavian characters works
   \RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}