diff --git a/src/FontManager.cpp b/src/FontManager.cpp
index 243c06adbc..1500a78e29 100644
--- a/src/FontManager.cpp
+++ b/src/FontManager.cpp
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ void FontManager::ReloadFonts()
 
 Font* FontManager::LoadFont( const RString &sFontOrTextureFilePath, RString sChars )
 {
-	PruneFonts();
-
 	Font *pFont;
 	/* Convert the path to lowercase so that we don't load duplicates. Really,
 	 * this does not solve the duplicate problem. We could have two copies of