diff --git a/tools/fonts/fontchain_linter.py b/tools/fonts/fontchain_linter.py
index 15d39fd..ec40a222 100755
--- a/tools/fonts/fontchain_linter.py
+++ b/tools/fonts/fontchain_linter.py
@@ -270,6 +270,9 @@
             if index:
                 index = int(index)
 
+            if not path.exists(path.join(_fonts_dir, font_file)):
+                continue # Missing font is a valid case. Just ignore the missing font files.
+
             record = FontRecord(
                 name,
                 frozenset(scripts),