diff --git a/src/entities/text_support.rs b/src/entities/text_support.rs
index 57e865093..c41269990 100644
--- a/src/entities/text_support.rs
+++ b/src/entities/text_support.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,20 @@ use crate::scene::convert::acad_to_render::{GlyphRun, TextStroke};
 use crate::scene::text::font_face::Face;
 use crate::scene::text::lff;
 
+/// A font reference a drawing holds — a style's font file, or an inline `\f`
+/// code — turned into an installed family.
+///
+/// An embedded stroke font wins over anything installed, so `romans.shx` keeps
+/// rendering as it did even where a font of that name happens to be installed;
+/// only a name no stroke font answers to is looked up among the system faces,
+/// first by family and then by file name (see `sysfont::family_for_reference`).
+fn resolve_font_reference(reference: &str) -> Option<String> {
+    if lff::is_builtin(reference) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    crate::scene::text::sysfont::family_for_reference(reference)
+}
+
 pub struct ResolvedTextStyle {
     pub font_name: String,
     pub width_factor: f32,
@@ -21,14 +35,20 @@ pub fn resolve_text_style(style_name: &str, document: &CadDocument) -> ResolvedT
     });
 
     let mut font_name = if let Some(style) = style {
-        if !style.true_type_font.trim().is_empty() {
-            style.true_type_font.trim().to_string()
-        } else if !style.font_file.trim().is_empty() {
-            let file = style.font_file.trim();
+        // A style names a font *file* — `GOST2304_TypeA_italic.ttf`,
+        // `romans.shx`, sometimes with a directory; `true_type_font` carries the
+        // same thing for the styles that set it.
+        let file = if !style.true_type_font.trim().is_empty() {
+            style.true_type_font.trim()
+        } else {
+            style.font_file.trim()
+        };
+        if !file.is_empty() {
             // A .shx font that resolves on disk (as stored, or next to the
             // drawing) renders its REAL stroke glyphs — pass the absolute
-            // path through so `Face::resolve` picks the SHX face. Only an
-            // unresolvable file falls back to the stem's LFF substitute.
+            // path through so `Face::resolve` picks the SHX face. Fonts fetched
+            // from the community repository live in the per-user fonts folder,
+            // so that is searched last, after the drawing folder.
             let shx_path = file
                 .to_ascii_lowercase()
                 .ends_with(".shx")
@@ -38,10 +58,7 @@ pub fn resolve_text_style(style_name: &str, document: &CadDocument) -> ResolvedT
                         .as_deref()
                         .map(std::path::Path::new)
                         .and_then(|p| p.parent());
-                    crate::io::resolve_image_file(file, base)
-                        // Fonts fetched from the community repository live in
-                        // the per-user fonts folder — search it last.
-                        .or_else(|| {
+                    crate::io::resolve_image_file(file, base).or_else(|| {
                         crate::io::font_repo::local_font_file(file)
                             .map(|path| path.to_string_lossy().into_owned())
                     })
@@ -49,6 +66,11 @@ pub fn resolve_text_style(style_name: &str, document: &CadDocument) -> ResolvedT
                 .flatten();
             if let Some(p) = shx_path {
                 p
+            } else if let Some(family) = resolve_font_reference(file) {
+                // The file is installed, so its family is the face to draw with.
+                // Substituting a stroke font instead drops every letter that
+                // font does not have — for a Cyrillic drawing, all of them.
+                family
             } else {
                 let basename = file.rsplit(['/', '\\']).next().unwrap_or(file);
                 let stem = basename.split('.').next().unwrap_or(basename).trim();
@@ -900,10 +922,9 @@ pub fn resolve_font<'a>(state: &'a RunState, base: &'a str) -> std::borrow::Cow<
     if lff::is_builtin(font) {
         return std::borrow::Cow::Borrowed(font);
     }
-    if let Some(canonical) = crate::scene::text::sysfont::canonical_family_name(font) {
-        std::borrow::Cow::Owned(canonical)
-    } else {
-        std::borrow::Cow::Borrowed(base)
+    match resolve_font_reference(font) {
+        Some(canonical) => std::borrow::Cow::Owned(canonical),
+        None => std::borrow::Cow::Borrowed(base),
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/scene/text/sysfont.rs b/src/scene/text/sysfont.rs
index 7e24c4d2a..09e2427fb 100644
--- a/src/scene/text/sysfont.rs
+++ b/src/scene/text/sysfont.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ struct SysFonts {
     db: fontdb::Database,
     /// Sorted, de-duplicated family names for the picker.
     families: Vec<String>,
+    /// Installed face file name (lower-case) → the family that face holds.
+    /// A drawing references a TrueType style by *file* name, so this is what
+    /// makes such a style resolve — see [`family_for_reference`].
+    by_file: HashMap<String, String>,
 }
 
 static FONTS: OnceLock<SysFonts> = OnceLock::new();
@@ -22,14 +26,31 @@ fn fonts() -> &'static SysFonts {
         let mut db = fontdb::Database::new();
         db.load_system_fonts();
 
-        let mut families: Vec<String> = db
-            .faces()
-            .filter_map(|face| face.families.first().map(|(name, _)| name.clone()))
-            .collect();
+        let mut families: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
+        let mut by_file: HashMap<String, String> = HashMap::new();
+        for face in db.faces() {
+            let Some((family, _)) = face.families.first() else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            families.push(family.clone());
+            // Remember every face file: a DWG style names the file, and the
+            // family inside it is usually a different string.
+            if let fontdb::Source::File(path) = &face.source {
+                if let Some(name) = path.file_name() {
+                    by_file
+                        .entry(name.to_string_lossy().to_ascii_lowercase())
+                        .or_insert_with(|| family.clone());
+                }
+            }
+        }
         families.sort_by_key(|n| n.to_lowercase());
         families.dedup();
 
-        SysFonts { db, families }
+        SysFonts {
+            db,
+            families,
+            by_file,
+        }
     })
 }
 
@@ -136,9 +157,70 @@ pub fn with_face_data<T>(family: &str, f: impl FnOnce(&[u8], u32) -> T) -> Optio
     fonts().db.with_face_data(id, f)
 }
 
+/// The family of the installed face whose file is named `name` — a bare file
+/// name or any path to one, matched case-insensitively.
+fn family_for_file(name: &str) -> Option<String> {
+    let file = name.rsplit(['/', '\\']).next()?.trim();
+    if file.is_empty() {
+        return None;
+    }
+    fonts().by_file.get(&file.to_ascii_lowercase()).cloned()
+}
+
+/// The installed family a drawing's font reference names, or `None` when
+/// nothing installed answers to it.
+///
+/// A DWG text style stores the TrueType font *file* (`GOST2304_TypeA_italic.ttf`,
+/// sometimes with a directory), which is what AutoCAD resolves; the family name
+/// lives inside the file and is usually not the same string. Inline `\f` codes
+/// carry either form, so both are tried.
+pub fn family_for_reference(reference: &str) -> Option<String> {
+    let reference = reference.trim();
+    if reference.is_empty() {
+        return None;
+    }
+    canonical_family_name(reference).or_else(|| family_for_file(reference))
+}
+
 /// Whether `family` matches an installed system font (case-insensitive via
 /// fontdb's own matching).
 pub fn has_family(family: &str) -> bool {
     face_id(family).is_some()
 }
 
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// A DWG stores a style's TrueType font as a file name, so every installed
+    /// face has to be reachable by the name of its file — case-insensitively,
+    /// and whether it comes as a bare name or as a path.
+    #[test]
+    fn face_files_resolve_to_their_family() {
+        let found = fonts().db.faces().find_map(|face| match &face.source {
+            fontdb::Source::File(path) => {
+                let file = path.file_name()?.to_string_lossy().into_owned();
+                let family = face.families.first().map(|(name, _)| name.clone())?;
+                Some((file, family))
+            }
+            _ => None,
+        });
+        let Some((file, family)) = found else {
+            eprintln!("no installed face files on this host; skipping");
+            return;
+        };
+
+        assert_eq!(family_for_file(&file).as_deref(), Some(family.as_str()));
+        assert_eq!(
+            family_for_file(&file.to_ascii_uppercase()).as_deref(),
+            Some(family.as_str())
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            family_for_reference(&format!("/somewhere/else/{file}")).as_deref(),
+            Some(family.as_str())
+        );
+        assert_eq!(family_for_file("no-such-face-9f3.ttf"), None);
+        assert_eq!(family_for_reference("   "), None);
+    }
+}
+