diff --git a/.changeset/hungry-zoos-sort.md b/.changeset/hungry-zoos-sort.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a5e264321
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/hungry-zoos-sort.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+"@react-pdf/examples": minor
+"@react-pdf/layout": minor
+"@react-pdf/font": minor
+---
+
+Add support for fontFamily fallbacks e.g. fontFamily: ['Roboto', 'NotoSansArabic']
diff --git a/packages/examples/public/NotoSansArabic-Regular.ttf b/packages/examples/public/NotoSansArabic-Regular.ttf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..79359c460
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diff --git a/packages/examples/src/fontFamilyFallback/index.jsx b/packages/examples/src/fontFamilyFallback/index.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bd249543a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/examples/src/fontFamilyFallback/index.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/* eslint react/prop-types: 0 */
+/* eslint react/jsx-sort-props: 0 */
+
+import React from 'react';
+import { Document, Page, Text, StyleSheet, Font } from '@react-pdf/renderer';
+
+import RobotoFont from '../../public/Roboto-Regular.ttf';
+import NotoSansArabicFont from '../../public/NotoSansArabic-Regular.ttf';
+
+const styles = StyleSheet.create({
+  body: {
+    paddingTop: 35,
+    paddingBottom: 45,
+    paddingHorizontal: 35,
+    position: 'relative',
+  },
+  regular: {
+    fontFamily: ['Roboto', 'NotoSansArabic'],
+    fontWeight: 900,
+  },
+});
+
+Font.register({
+  family: 'Roboto',
+  fonts: [
+    {
+      src: RobotoFont,
+      fontWeight: 400,
+    },
+  ],
+});
+
+Font.register({
+  family: 'NotoSansArabic',
+  fonts: [
+    {
+      src: NotoSansArabicFont,
+      fontWeight: 400,
+    },
+  ],
+});
+
+const MyDoc = () => {
+  return (
+    <Page style={styles.body}>
+      <Text style={styles.regular}>Test امتحان</Text>
+    </Page>
+  );
+};
+
+const App = () => {
+  return (
+    <Document>
+      <MyDoc />
+    </Document>
+  );
+};
+
+export default App;
diff --git a/packages/examples/src/index.jsx b/packages/examples/src/index.jsx
index f0a22de79..23d6c6b82 100644
--- a/packages/examples/src/index.jsx
+++ b/packages/examples/src/index.jsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
 
 import { PDFViewer } from '@react-pdf/renderer';
 
-import Document from './pageWrap';
+import Document from './fontFamilyFallback';
 
 import './index.css';
 
diff --git a/packages/font/src/index.js b/packages/font/src/index.js
index a7dccf92c..bb48c5762 100644
--- a/packages/font/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/font/src/index.js
@@ -55,14 +55,21 @@ function FontStore() {
 
   this.load = async (descriptor) => {
     const { fontFamily } = descriptor;
-    const isStandard = standard.includes(fontFamily);
+    const fontFamilies =
+      typeof fontFamily === 'string' ? [fontFamily] : [...(fontFamily || [])];
+
+    const promises = [];
 
-    if (isStandard) return;
+    for (let len = fontFamilies.length, i = 0; i < len; i += 1) {
+      const family = fontFamilies[i];
+      const isStandard = standard.includes(family);
+      if (isStandard) return;
 
-    const f = this.getFont(descriptor);
+      const f = this.getFont({ ...descriptor, fontFamily: family });
+      promises.push(f.load());
+    }
 
-    // We cache the font to avoid fetching it many times
-    await f.load();
+    await Promise.all(promises);
   };
 
   this.reset = () => {
diff --git a/packages/layout/src/text/fontSubstitution.js b/packages/layout/src/text/fontSubstitution.js
index 58a4f9825..967cc9985 100644
--- a/packages/layout/src/text/fontSubstitution.js
+++ b/packages/layout/src/text/fontSubstitution.js
@@ -19,11 +19,24 @@ const getOrCreateFont = (name) => {
 
 const getFallbackFont = () => getOrCreateFont('Helvetica');
 
-const shouldFallbackToFont = (codePoint, font) =>
-  !font ||
-  (!IGNORED_CODE_POINTS.includes(codePoint) &&
-    !font.hasGlyphForCodePoint(codePoint) &&
-    getFallbackFont().hasGlyphForCodePoint(codePoint));
+const pickFontFromFontStack = (codePoint, fontStack, lastFont) => {
+  const fontStackWithFallback = [...fontStack, getFallbackFont()];
+  if (lastFont) {
+    fontStackWithFallback.unshift(lastFont);
+  }
+  for (let i = 0; i < fontStackWithFallback.length; i += 1) {
+    const font = fontStackWithFallback[i];
+    if (
+      !IGNORED_CODE_POINTS.includes(codePoint) &&
+      font &&
+      font.hasGlyphForCodePoint &&
+      font.hasGlyphForCodePoint(codePoint)
+    ) {
+      return font;
+    }
+  }
+  return getFallbackFont();
+};
 
 const fontSubstitution =
   () =>
@@ -53,9 +66,12 @@ const fontSubstitution =
       for (let j = 0; j < chars.length; j += 1) {
         const char = chars[j];
         const codePoint = char.codePointAt();
-        const shouldFallback = shouldFallbackToFont(codePoint, defaultFont);
         // If the default font does not have a glyph and the fallback font does, we use it
-        const font = shouldFallback ? getFallbackFont() : defaultFont;
+        const font = pickFontFromFontStack(
+          codePoint,
+          run.attributes.font,
+          lastFont,
+        );
         const fontSize = getFontSize(run);
 
         // If anything that would impact res has changed, update it
diff --git a/packages/layout/src/text/getAttributedString.js b/packages/layout/src/text/getAttributedString.js
index 1a7625553..74cbc326f 100644
--- a/packages/layout/src/text/getAttributedString.js
+++ b/packages/layout/src/text/getAttributedString.js
@@ -44,9 +44,16 @@ const getFragments = (fontStore, instance, parentLink, level = 0) => {
     verticalAlign,
   } = instance.style;
 
-  const opts = { fontFamily, fontWeight, fontStyle };
-  const obj = fontStore ? fontStore.getFont(opts) : null;
-  const font = obj ? obj.data : fontFamily;
+  const fontFamilies =
+    typeof fontFamily === 'string' ? [fontFamily] : [...(fontFamily || [])];
+
+  const font = fontFamilies.map((fontFamilyName) => {
+    if (typeof fontFamilyName !== 'string') return fontFamilyName;
+
+    const opts = { fontFamily: fontFamilyName, fontWeight, fontStyle };
+    const obj = fontStore ? fontStore.getFont(opts) : null;
+    return obj ? obj.data : fontFamilyName;
+  });
 
   // Don't pass main background color to textkit. Will be rendered by the render package instead
   const backgroundColor = level === 0 ? null : instance.style.backgroundColor;
diff --git a/packages/types/font.d.ts b/packages/types/font.d.ts
index e04d1ccb8..3e6b03731 100644
--- a/packages/types/font.d.ts
+++ b/packages/types/font.d.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export interface FontDescriptor {
 
 interface FontSource {
   src: string;
-  fontFamily: string;
+  fontFamily: string | string[];
   fontStyle: FontStyle;
   fontWeight: number;
   data: any;