diff --git a/frontend/src/app/main/data/fonts.cljs b/frontend/src/app/main/data/fonts.cljs
index 8992856540..e6cbfe8150 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/main/data/fonts.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/app/main/data/fonts.cljs
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
               {:content {:data (js/Uint8Array. data)
                          :name name
                          :type type}
-               :font-family family
+               :font-family (or family "")
                :font-weight (cm/parse-font-weight variant)
                :font-style  (cm/parse-font-style variant)}))
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/main/ui/dashboard/fonts.cljs b/frontend/src/app/main/ui/dashboard/fonts.cljs
index 241f7c2b24..bda48caadf 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/main/ui/dashboard/fonts.cljs
+++ b/frontend/src/app/main/ui/dashboard/fonts.cljs
@@ -192,9 +192,10 @@
         on-save
         (fn [event]
           (let [font-family @state]
-            (st/emit! (df/update-font
-                       {:id font-id
-                        :name font-family}))
+            (when-not (str/blank? font-family)
+              (st/emit! (df/update-font
+                         {:id font-id
+                          :name font-family})))
             (reset! edit? false)))
 
         on-key-down