diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 62c1f86..35e4767 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "FreeTypeAbstraction"
 uuid = "663a7486-cb36-511b-a19d-713bb74d65c9"
-version = "0.10.0"
+version = "0.11.0"
 
 [deps]
 ColorVectorSpace = "c3611d14-8923-5661-9e6a-0046d554d3a4"
diff --git a/src/FreeTypeAbstraction.jl b/src/FreeTypeAbstraction.jl
index a607abd..20714d5 100644
--- a/src/FreeTypeAbstraction.jl
+++ b/src/FreeTypeAbstraction.jl
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ function __init__()
         push!(paths, path)
     end
     append!(valid_fontpaths, paths)
+    # fonts aren't cacheable by precompilation, so we need to empty it on load!
+    empty!(FONT_CACHE)
 end
 
 if Base.VERSION >= v"1.4.2"
diff --git a/src/findfonts.jl b/src/findfonts.jl
index 0b668a5..6259cd2 100644
--- a/src/findfonts.jl
+++ b/src/findfonts.jl
@@ -121,12 +121,15 @@ end
 
 fontname(ft::FTFont) = "$(family_name(ft)) $(style_name(ft))"
 
+const FONT_CACHE = Dict{String, FTFont}()
+
 function findfont(
         searchstring::String;
         italic::Bool=false, # this is unused in the new implementation
         bold::Bool=false, # and this as well
         additional_fonts::String=""
     )
+    (font = get(FONT_CACHE, searchstring, nothing)) !== nothing && return font
     font_folders = copy(fontpaths())
 
     isempty(additional_fonts) || pushfirst!(font_folders, additional_fonts)
@@ -144,7 +147,6 @@ function findfont(
             face === nothing && continue
 
             score = match_font(face, searchparts)
-
             # we can compare all four tuple elements of the score at once
             # in order of importance:
 
@@ -156,9 +158,7 @@ function findfont(
             family_match_score = score[1]
             if family_match_score > 0 && score > best_score_so_far
                 # finalize previous best font to close the font file
-                if !isnothing(best_font)
-                    finalize(best_font)
-                end
+                isnothing(best_font) || finalize(best_font)
 
                 # new candidate
                 best_font = face
@@ -168,6 +168,6 @@ function findfont(
             end
         end
     end
-
+    best_font === nothing || (FONT_CACHE[searchstring] = best_font)
     return best_font
 end
diff --git a/src/types.jl b/src/types.jl
index 36d094b..fc260bc 100644
--- a/src/types.jl
+++ b/src/types.jl
@@ -124,12 +124,13 @@ function boundingbox(extent::FontExtent{T}) where T
 end
 
 mutable struct FTFont
+    ft_path::String
     ft_ptr::FreeType.FT_Face
     use_cache::Bool
     extent_cache::Dict{UInt64, FontExtent{Float32}}
-    function FTFont(ft_ptr::FreeType.FT_Face, use_cache::Bool=true)
+    function FTFont(ft_path::String, ft_ptr::FreeType.FT_Face, use_cache::Bool=true)
         extent_cache = Dict{UInt64, FontExtent{Float32}}()
-        face = new(ft_ptr, use_cache, extent_cache)
+        face = new(ft_path, ft_ptr, use_cache, extent_cache)
         finalizer(safe_free, face)
         return face
     end
@@ -137,8 +138,9 @@ end
 
 use_cache(face::FTFont) = getfield(face, :use_cache)
 get_cache(face::FTFont) = getfield(face, :extent_cache)
+get_path(face::FTFont) = getfield(face, :ft_path)
 
-FTFont(path::String) = FTFont(newface(path))
+FTFont(path::String) = FTFont(path, newface(path))
 
 # C interop
 Base.cconvert(::Type{FreeType.FT_Face}, font::FTFont) = font
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 8ce3bde..013ec9a 100755
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ face = FA.findfont("hack")
     @test :size in propertynames(face)
     @test repr(face) == "FTFont (family = Hack, style = Regular)"
     @test Broadcast.broadcastable(face)[] == face
+    @test FA.get_path(face) == joinpath(@__DIR__, "hack_regular.ttf")
 
     @test FA.ascender(face) isa Real
     @test FA.descender(face) isa Real