diff --git a/pkg/macos/text/font.zig b/pkg/macos/text/font.zig
index e0c1f4891..f4db72d6c 100644
--- a/pkg/macos/text/font.zig
+++ b/pkg/macos/text/font.zig
@@ -81,6 +81,14 @@ pub const Font = opaque {
         );
     }
 
+    pub fn createPathForGlyph(self: *Font, glyph: graphics.Glyph) ?*graphics.Path {
+        return @constCast(@ptrCast(c.CTFontCreatePathForGlyph(
+            @ptrCast(self),
+            glyph,
+            null,
+        )));
+    }
+
     pub fn drawGlyphs(
         self: *Font,
         glyphs: []const graphics.Glyph,
diff --git a/src/font/face/coretext.zig b/src/font/face/coretext.zig
index c15c68230..72c0a6d9e 100644
--- a/src/font/face/coretext.zig
+++ b/src/font/face/coretext.zig
@@ -102,6 +102,20 @@ pub const Face = struct {
         };
         result.quirks_disable_default_font_features = quirks.disableDefaultFontFeatures(&result);
 
+        // If our presentation is emoji, we also check for the presence of
+        // emoji codepoints. This forces fonts with colorized glyphs that aren't
+        // emoji font to be treated as text. Long term, this isn't what we want
+        // but this fixes some bugs in the short term. See:
+        // https://github.com/mitchellh/ghostty/issues/1768
+        //
+        // Longer term, we'd like to detect mixed color/non-color fonts and
+        // handle them correctly by rendering the color glyphs as color and the
+        // non-color glyphs as text.
+        if (result.presentation == .emoji and result.glyphIndex('🥸') == null) {
+            log.warn("font has colorized glyphs but isn't emoji, treating as text", .{});
+            result.presentation = .text;
+        }
+
         // In debug mode, we output information about available variation axes,
         // if they exist.
         if (comptime builtin.mode == .Debug) {
@@ -700,3 +714,16 @@ test "variable set variation" {
         _ = try face.renderGlyph(alloc, &atlas, face.glyphIndex(i).?, .{});
     }
 }
+
+test "mixed color/non-color font treated as text" {
+    const testing = std.testing;
+    const testFont = @import("../test.zig").fontJuliaMono;
+
+    var lib = try font.Library.init();
+    defer lib.deinit();
+
+    var face = try Face.init(lib, testFont, .{ .size = .{ .points = 12 } });
+    defer face.deinit();
+
+    try testing.expect(face.presentation == .text);
+}
diff --git a/src/font/face/freetype.zig b/src/font/face/freetype.zig
index 2860503b4..858f14fca 100644
--- a/src/font/face/freetype.zig
+++ b/src/font/face/freetype.zig
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ pub const Face = struct {
         };
         result.quirks_disable_default_font_features = quirks.disableDefaultFontFeatures(&result);
 
+        // See coretext.zig which has a similar check for this.
+        if (result.presentation == .emoji and result.glyphIndex('🥸') == null) {
+            log.warn("font has colorized glyphs but isn't emoji, treating as text", .{});
+            result.presentation = .text;
+        }
+
         // In debug mode, we output information about available variation axes,
         // if they exist.
         if (comptime builtin.mode == .Debug) mm: {
diff --git a/src/font/res/JuliaMono-Regular.ttf b/src/font/res/JuliaMono-Regular.ttf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..605230aa8
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/font/res/JuliaMono-Regular.ttf differ
diff --git a/src/font/test.zig b/src/font/test.zig
index 253d067b4..e5254b9a8 100644
--- a/src/font/test.zig
+++ b/src/font/test.zig
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ pub const fontNerdFont = @embedFile("res/JetBrainsMonoNerdFont-Regular.ttf");
 /// Specific font families below:
 pub const fontGeistMono = @embedFile("res/GeistMono-Regular.ttf");
 pub const fontJetBrainsMono = @embedFile("res/JetBrainsMonoNoNF-Regular.ttf");
+pub const fontJuliaMono = @embedFile("res/JuliaMono-Regular.ttf");
 
 /// Cozette is a unique font because it embeds some emoji characters
 /// but has a text presentation.
diff --git a/src/quirks.zig b/src/quirks.zig
index e521eeb56..419294f5d 100644
--- a/src/quirks.zig
+++ b/src/quirks.zig
@@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ pub fn disableDefaultFontFeatures(face: *const font.Face) bool {
     // CodeNewRoman, Menlo and Monaco both have a default ligature of "fi" that
     // looks really bad in terminal grids, so we want to disable ligatures
     // by default for these faces.
+    //
+    // JuliaMono has a default ligature of "st" that looks bad.
     return std.mem.eql(u8, name, "CodeNewRoman") or
         std.mem.eql(u8, name, "CodeNewRoman Nerd Font") or
+        std.mem.eql(u8, name, "JuliaMono") or
         std.mem.eql(u8, name, "Menlo") or
         std.mem.eql(u8, name, "Monaco");
 }