diff --git a/gfx/skia/skia/src/ports/SkFontHost_mac.cpp b/gfx/skia/skia/src/ports/SkFontHost_mac.cpp
index 3901dbed216f..d2647b040c84 100644
--- a/gfx/skia/skia/src/ports/SkFontHost_mac.cpp
+++ b/gfx/skia/skia/src/ports/SkFontHost_mac.cpp
@@ -1280,7 +1280,9 @@ void SkScalerContext_Mac::generateMetrics(SkGlyph* glyph) {
         // it should be empty. So, if we see a zero-advance, we check if it has an
         // empty path or not, and if so, we jam the bounds to 0. Hopefully a zero-advance
         // is rare, so we won't incur a big performance cost for this extra check.
-        if (0 == cgAdvance.width && 0 == cgAdvance.height) {
+        // Avoid trying to create a path from a color font due to crashing on 10.9.
+        if (0 == cgAdvance.width && 0 == cgAdvance.height &&
+            SkMask::kARGB32_Format != glyph->fMaskFormat) {
             SkUniqueCFRef<CGPathRef> path(CTFontCreatePathForGlyph(fCTFont.get(), cgGlyph,nullptr));
             if (!path || CGPathIsEmpty(path.get())) {
                 return;