diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0eb79b9a..d2e2c034 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 - [BREAKING CHANGE] Remove the virtual file system (`pdfkit/virtual-fs`). Browser builds no longer depend on `fs`: use `registerFile` to register `Uint8Array` data under a path, pass a `Uint8Array` or `ArrayBuffer` directly to `registerFont`, `image` and `file`, or pass a data URL directly to `image` and `file`
 - Add `registerFile(path, data, options)` to globally register in-memory files in Node and browsers, with optional `birthtime` and `ctime` metadata. Passing `undefined` as data unregisters the path
 - Add experimental `toBlob(document)` and `toBytes(document)` output helpers under `pdfkit/output`
+- Accept already-parsed fontkit `Font` instances in `doc.font()` and `registerFont`
 - Load the PDF/A ICC profile from disk only when needed in Node, while continuing to bundle it in browser builds
 - [BREAKING CHANGE] Restrict AcroForm options to documented mappings and explicit escape hatches.
 - [BREAKING CHANGE] Stop automatically uppercasing annotation option keys.
diff --git a/docs/text.md b/docs/text.md
index 4d90b7f6..e7a7a4fa 100644
--- a/docs/text.md
+++ b/docs/text.md
@@ -232,7 +232,9 @@ and Datafork TrueType (`.dfont`) fonts.
 
 To change the font used to render text, just call the `font` method. If you
 are using a standard PDF font, just pass the name to the `font` method.
-Otherwise, pass the path to the font file, or a `Buffer` containing the font data.
+Otherwise, pass the path to the font file, a `Buffer` containing the font data,
+or an already-parsed [fontkit](https://github.com/foliojs/fontkit) `Font`
+instance.
 If the font is a collection font (`.ttc` and `.dfont` files), meaning that it
 contains multiple styles in the same file, you should pass the name of the style
 to be extracted from the collection.
diff --git a/lib/font_factory.js b/lib/font_factory.js
index 7ba1ab3c..0d702497 100644
--- a/lib/font_factory.js
+++ b/lib/font_factory.js
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ class PDFFontFactory {
       font = create(src, family);
     } else if (src instanceof ArrayBuffer) {
       font = create(new Uint8Array(src), family);
+    } else if (typeof src?.layout === 'function') {
+      // already-parsed fontkit font instance
+      font = src;
     }
 
     if (font == null) {
diff --git a/tests/unit/font.spec.js b/tests/unit/font.spec.js
index faf28538..c4cc4c14 100644
--- a/tests/unit/font.spec.js
+++ b/tests/unit/font.spec.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { vi } from 'vitest';
 import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
+import { create } from 'fontkit';
 import PDFDocument from '../../lib/document';
 import PDFFontFactory from '../../lib/font_factory';
 import StandardFont from '../../lib/font/standard';
@@ -22,6 +23,60 @@ describe('PDFFontFactory', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('fontkit font instance sources', () => {
+  const parseFont = (file = 'tests/fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf') =>
+    create(readFileSync(file));
+
+  test('doc.font() embeds a parsed font instance and renders text', () => {
+    const doc = new PDFDocument({ compress: false });
+    doc.font(parseFont()).text('parsed roboto');
+
+    const pdf = collectPdf(doc);
+
+    expect(pdf).toContain('Roboto-Regular');
+    expect(pdf).toContain('startxref');
+    expect(missingObjects(pdf)).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  test('the same instance passed twice reuses the embedded font', () => {
+    const doc = new PDFDocument({ font: null });
+    const font = parseFont();
+
+    doc.font(font);
+    const first = doc._font;
+    const familyCount = Object.keys(doc._fontFamilies).length;
+
+    doc.font(font);
+
+    expect(doc._font).toBe(first);
+    expect(Object.keys(doc._fontFamilies)).toHaveLength(familyCount);
+  });
+
+  test('different instances do not collide', () => {
+    const doc = new PDFDocument({ font: null });
+
+    doc.font(parseFont('tests/fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf'));
+    const regular = doc._font;
+    doc.font(parseFont('tests/fonts/Roboto-Italic.ttf'));
+    const italic = doc._font;
+
+    expect(italic).not.toBe(regular);
+    expect(doc._fontFamilies['Roboto-Regular']).toBe(regular);
+    expect(doc._fontFamilies['Roboto-Italic']).toBe(italic);
+  });
+
+  test('registerFont accepts a parsed font instance', () => {
+    const doc = new PDFDocument({ compress: false });
+    doc.registerFont('MyFont', parseFont());
+    doc.font('MyFont').text('registered parsed font');
+
+    expect(doc._fontFamilies['MyFont']).toBe(doc._font);
+
+    const pdf = collectPdf(doc);
+    expect(missingObjects(pdf)).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('EmbeddedFont', () => {
   test('no fontLayoutCache option', () => {
     const document = new PDFDocument();