diff --git a/sixtyfps_runtime/corelib/Cargo.toml b/sixtyfps_runtime/corelib/Cargo.toml
index 270fc870d29..953d12ef83a 100644
--- a/sixtyfps_runtime/corelib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sixtyfps_runtime/corelib/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,5 +51,10 @@ wasm-bindgen = { version = "0.2" }
 font-kit = "0.10"
 pathfinder_geometry = "0.5.1"
 
+# Require font-config from the system. Issue #88 indicates that the copy provided by servo-fontconfig may be incompatible
+# with distros at times.
+[target.'cfg(not(any(target_family = "windows", target_os = "macos", target_os = "ios", target_arch = "wasm32")))'.dependencies]
+servo-fontconfig-sys = { version = "5.1", features = [ "force_system_lib" ] }
+
 [dev-dependencies]
 pin-weak = "1"