diff --git a/src/FontManager.cpp b/src/FontManager.cpp
index 064594703f..837a5d5aa1 100644
--- a/src/FontManager.cpp
+++ b/src/FontManager.cpp
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ 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