Design Issue - Making a Font Global (C++, Marmalade)

I have a Marmalade C++ project where the built in font doesn't scale to screen size. To deal with this issue I'm making a custom font, which is basically a png and a .xml file, containing the (0,0) vector of each character, and each character's size. I'm then creating an instance of the png, and drawing regions of it in a for loop to write on the screen.

The issue I'm having is the scope of this class. I want it to be used throughout the entire project. So the static DebugLogger would use this font, any UI's, or GameObjects, anything which need characters, would use this font. Almost like it's pre-built into the system.

The Logger in this project is a static class, with static functions. The custom font class I currently have is a Singleton, as is my understanding, it must be an instantiated object for the program to draw images of it. So I did not make it static. Is there a clear cut answer to this type of problem? The issue is the static class won't create a reference to a singleton, and I've been told the singleton is to be avoided from a design perspective anyway!

Thanks in advance guys!