diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibGfx/Painter.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibGfx/Painter.cpp
index 82d09fd998..55a926e4a9 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibGfx/Painter.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibGfx/Painter.cpp
@@ -1415,7 +1415,7 @@ void Painter::draw_glyph_or_emoji(FloatPoint point, Utf8CodePointIterator& it, F
     };
 
     auto font_contains_glyph = font.contains_glyph(code_point);
-    auto check_for_emoji = Unicode::could_be_start_of_emoji_sequence(it);
+    auto check_for_emoji = Unicode::could_be_start_of_emoji_sequence(it, font_contains_glyph ? Unicode::SequenceType::EmojiPresentation : Unicode::SequenceType::Any);
 
     // If the font contains the glyph, and we know it's not the start of an emoji, draw a text glyph.
     if (font_contains_glyph && !check_for_emoji) {