diff --git a/doc/api/next_api_changes/behavior/24655-AK.rst b/doc/api/next_api_changes/behavior/24655-AK.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..04b4141e4517
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/api/next_api_changes/behavior/24655-AK.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+On Windows only fonts known to the registry will be discovered
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Previously, Matplotlib would recursively walk user and system font directories
+to discover fonts, however this lead to a number of undesirable behaviors
+including finding deleted fonts. Now Matplotlib will only find fonts that are
+known to the Windows registry.
+
+This means that any user installed fonts must go through the Windows font
+installer rather than simply being copied to the correct folder.
+
+This only impacts the set of fonts Matplotlib will consider when using
+`matplotlib.font_manager.findfont`. To use an arbitrary font, directly pass the
+path to a font as shown in
+:doc:`/gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/font_file`.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py b/lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py
index c775a09136d6..8a4b52e96f32 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py
@@ -186,16 +186,11 @@ def list_fonts(directory, extensions):
recursively under the directory.
"""
extensions = ["." + ext for ext in extensions]
- if sys.platform == 'win32' and directory == win32FontDirectory():
- return [os.path.join(directory, filename)
- for filename in os.listdir(directory)
- if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(directory, filename))]
- else:
- return [os.path.join(dirpath, filename)
- # os.walk ignores access errors, unlike Path.glob.
- for dirpath, _, filenames in os.walk(directory)
- for filename in filenames
- if Path(filename).suffix.lower() in extensions]
+ return [os.path.join(dirpath, filename)
+ # os.walk ignores access errors, unlike Path.glob.
+ for dirpath, _, filenames in os.walk(directory)
+ for filename in filenames
+ if Path(filename).suffix.lower() in extensions]
def win32FontDirectory():
@@ -275,7 +270,7 @@ def findSystemFonts(fontpaths=None, fontext='ttf'):
if fontpaths is None:
if sys.platform == 'win32':
installed_fonts = _get_win32_installed_fonts()
- fontpaths = MSUserFontDirectories + [win32FontDirectory()]
+ fontpaths = []
else:
installed_fonts = _get_fontconfig_fonts()
if sys.platform == 'darwin':
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_font_manager.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_font_manager.py
index 6fd1097ce196..3724db1e1b43 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_font_manager.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_font_manager.py
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ def test_user_fonts_win32():
pytest.xfail("This test should only run on CI (appveyor or azure) "
"as the developer's font directory should remain "
"unchanged.")
-
+ pytest.xfail("We need to update the registry for this test to work")
font_test_file = 'mpltest.ttf'
# Precondition: the test font should not be available
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