diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index cbf74b586af..7f988e82cf9 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ rust-version = "1.66"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
 resvg = { version= "0.30.0", default-features = false }
+fontdb = { version = "0.13", features = ["fontconfig"] }
 
 [profile.release]
 lto = true
diff --git a/internal/compiler/Cargo.toml b/internal/compiler/Cargo.toml
index 498199471c1..2aad0cbd817 100644
--- a/internal/compiler/Cargo.toml
+++ b/internal/compiler/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ proc_macro_span = ["quote", "proc-macro2"]
 display-diagnostics = ["codemap", "codemap-diagnostic"]
 
 # Enabled the support to render images and font in the binary
-software-renderer = ["image", "dep:resvg", "fontdb", "fontdue", "libc", "yeslogic-fontconfig-sys"]
+software-renderer = ["image", "dep:resvg", "dep:fontdb", "fontdue", "libc", "yeslogic-fontconfig-sys"]
 
 
 [dependencies]
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ linked_hash_set = "0.1.4"
 image = { version = "0.24", optional = true }
 resvg = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 # font embedding
-fontdb = { version = "0.12", features = ["fontconfig"], optional = true }
+fontdb = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 fontdue = { version = "0.7.1", optional = true }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(any(target_family = "windows", target_os = "macos", target_os = "ios", target_arch = "wasm32")))'.dependencies]
diff --git a/internal/compiler/passes/embed_glyphs.rs b/internal/compiler/passes/embed_glyphs.rs
index 4754a84cc82..5cacf637ed1 100644
--- a/internal/compiler/passes/embed_glyphs.rs
+++ b/internal/compiler/passes/embed_glyphs.rs
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ pub fn embed_glyphs<'a>(
                 let face_count = fontdb.len();
                 match fontdb.load_font_file(path) {
                     Ok(()) => {
-                        fontdb.faces().get(face_count).map(|face_info| face_info.id)
+                        fontdb.faces().nth(face_count).map(|face_info| face_info.id)
                     },
                     Err(err) => {
                         diag.push_error(
@@ -126,11 +126,11 @@ pub fn embed_glyphs<'a>(
     // add custom fonts
     for doc in all_docs {
         for (font_path, import_token) in doc.custom_fonts.iter() {
-            let face_count = fontdb.faces().len();
+            let face_count = fontdb.faces().count();
             if let Err(e) = fontdb.load_font_file(&font_path) {
                 diag.push_error(format!("Error loading font: {}", e), import_token);
             } else {
-                custom_fonts.extend(fontdb.faces()[face_count..].iter().map(|info| info.id))
+                custom_fonts.extend(fontdb.faces().skip(face_count).map(|info| info.id))
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/internal/core/Cargo.toml b/internal/core/Cargo.toml
index 820c90a5432..e87fdb12fc4 100644
--- a/internal/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/internal/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ unsafe-single-threaded = []
 
 unicode = ["unicode-script", "unicode-linebreak"]
 
-software-renderer-systemfonts = ["fontdb", "rustybuzz", "fontdue"]
+software-renderer-systemfonts = ["dep:fontdb", "rustybuzz", "fontdue"]
 
 image-decoders = ["image", "clru"]
 svg = ["dep:resvg"]
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ wasm-bindgen = { version = "0.2" }
 web-sys = { version = "0.3", features = [ "HtmlImageElement" ] }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
-fontdb = { version = "0.12", optional = true, features = ["memmap", "fontconfig"] }
+fontdb = { workspace = true, optional = true, features = ["memmap"] }
 rustybuzz = { version = "0.7.0", optional = true }
 fontdue = { version = "0.7.1", optional = true }
 
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ slint = { path = "../../api/rs/slint", default-features = false, features = ["st
 i-slint-backend-testing = { path="../backends/testing" }
 rustybuzz = "0.7.0"
 ttf-parser = "0.18.0"
-fontdb = { version = "0.12.0" }
+fontdb = { workspace = true }
 
 image = { version = "0.24.0", default-features = false, features = [ "png" ] }
 pin-weak = "1"
diff --git a/internal/core/software_renderer/fonts/systemfonts.rs b/internal/core/software_renderer/fonts/systemfonts.rs
index cffc3b297e2..5baffeeff1c 100644
--- a/internal/core/software_renderer/fonts/systemfonts.rs
+++ b/internal/core/software_renderer/fonts/systemfonts.rs
@@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ fn init_fontdb() -> FontDatabase {
             let face_count = db.len();
             match db.load_font_file(path) {
                 Ok(()) => {
-                    db.faces().get(face_count).map(|face_info| face_info.id)
+                    db.faces().nth(face_count).map(|face_info| face_info.id)
                 },
                 Err(err) => {
                     eprintln!(
-                        "Could not load the font set via `SLINT_DEFAULT_FONT`: {}: {}", path.display(), err,                        
+                        "Could not load the font set via `SLINT_DEFAULT_FONT`: {}: {}", path.display(), err,
                     );
                     None
                 },
diff --git a/internal/core/textlayout/shaping.rs b/internal/core/textlayout/shaping.rs
index 0e965642c7a..406aa87d928 100644
--- a/internal/core/textlayout/shaping.rs
+++ b/internal/core/textlayout/shaping.rs
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ fn with_dejavu_font<R>(mut callback: impl FnMut(&rustybuzz::Face<'_>) -> R) -> O
             .iter()
             .collect();
     fontdb.load_font_file(dejavu_path).expect("unable to load test dejavu font");
-    let font_id = fontdb.faces()[0].id;
+    let font_id = fontdb.faces().next().unwrap().id;
     fontdb.with_face_data(font_id, |data, font_index| {
         let face =
             rustybuzz::Face::from_slice(data, font_index).expect("unable to parse dejavu font");