diff --git a/src/fonts.js b/src/fonts.js
index 72bcecbce..f74ad4439 100644
--- a/src/fonts.js
+++ b/src/fonts.js
@@ -3104,9 +3104,13 @@ var Font = (function FontClosure() {
                  window.btoa(data) + ');');
       var rule = "@font-face { font-family:'" + fontName + "';src:" + url + '}';
 
-      var styleElement = document.createElement('style');
-      document.documentElement.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(
-        styleElement);
+      var styleElement = document.getElementById('PDFJS_FONT_STYLE_TAG');
+      if (!styleElement) {
+          styleElement = document.createElement('style');
+          styleElement.id = 'PDFJS_FONT_STYLE_TAG';
+          document.documentElement.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(
+            styleElement);
+      }
 
       var styleSheet = styleElement.sheet;
       styleSheet.insertRule(rule, styleSheet.cssRules.length);