diff --git a/selfdrive/assets/fonts/NotoColorEmoji-Regular.ttf b/selfdrive/assets/fonts/NotoColorEmoji-Regular.ttf
deleted file mode 100644
index 2579d30f65..0000000000
--- a/selfdrive/assets/fonts/NotoColorEmoji-Regular.ttf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:69f216a4ec672bb910d652678301ffe3094c44e5d03276e794ef793d936a1f1d
-size 25096376
diff --git a/selfdrive/assets/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf b/selfdrive/assets/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..778e821ce3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/selfdrive/assets/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:93cdc4ee9aa40e2afceecc63da0ca05ec7aab4bec991ece51a6b52389f48a477
+size 10788068
diff --git a/system/ui/lib/emoji.py b/system/ui/lib/emoji.py
index 28139158a1..519f567d3f 100644
--- a/system/ui/lib/emoji.py
+++ b/system/ui/lib/emoji.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import re
 from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
 import pyray as rl
 
+from openpilot.system.ui.lib.application import FONT_DIR
+
 _cache: dict[str, rl.Texture] = {}
 
 EMOJI_REGEX = re.compile(
@@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ def emoji_tex(emoji):
   if emoji not in _cache:
     img = Image.new("RGBA", (128, 128), (0, 0, 0, 0))
     draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
-    font = ImageFont.truetype("NotoColorEmoji", 109)
+    font = ImageFont.truetype(FONT_DIR.joinpath("NotoColorEmoji.ttf"), 109)
     draw.text((0, 0), emoji, font=font, embedded_color=True)
     buffer = io.BytesIO()
     img.save(buffer, format="PNG")