From e72f153a668a57702c5ff7749c81a695c933a20d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 13:05:26 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid unneccessary exception when failling to find a fallback
 font

---
 kitty/fonts/render.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kitty/fonts/render.py b/kitty/fonts/render.py
index 73d89cfbc..8f7eee0c1 100644
--- a/kitty/fonts/render.py
+++ b/kitty/fonts/render.py
@@ -50,12 +50,11 @@ FontState = namedtuple(
 
 def get_fallback_font(text, bold, italic):
     state = set_font_family.state
-    return create_face(
-        font_for_text(
+    font = font_for_text(
             text, state.family, state.pt_sz, state.xdpi, state.ydpi, bold,
             italic
         )
-    )
+    return None if font is None else create_face(font)
 
 
 def set_font_family(opts=None, override_font_size=None, override_dpi=None):