From 9f6c64afa64155435f7191862d42896cb57839c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clyde Stubbs <2366188+clydebarrow@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:07:43 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] [font] cleanly handle font file format exception (Bugfix)
 (#7970)

---
 esphome/components/font/__init__.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/esphome/components/font/__init__.py b/esphome/components/font/__init__.py
index c397ba8306..e2051298fe 100644
--- a/esphome/components/font/__init__.py
+++ b/esphome/components/font/__init__.py
@@ -51,8 +51,11 @@ CONF_IGNORE_MISSING_GLYPHS = "ignore_missing_glyphs"
 # Cache loaded freetype fonts
 class FontCache(dict):
     def __missing__(self, key):
-        res = self[key] = freetype.Face(key)
-        return res
+        try:
+            res = self[key] = freetype.Face(key)
+            return res
+        except freetype.FT_Exception as e:
+            raise cv.Invalid(f"Could not load Font file {key}: {e}") from e
 
 
 FONT_CACHE = FontCache()