diff --git a/packages/host/tests/helpers/percy-snapshot.ts b/packages/host/tests/helpers/percy-snapshot.ts
index 12c88af146..552f534a0d 100644
--- a/packages/host/tests/helpers/percy-snapshot.ts
+++ b/packages/host/tests/helpers/percy-snapshot.ts
@@ -20,12 +20,59 @@ export default async function percySnapshot(
   // Load every @font-face the page has declared, not just a hard-coded list.
   // This covers IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Mono (used by Monaco), IBM Plex Serif
   // and any future additions, without needing to keep the helper in sync.
-  await Promise.all(Array.from(document.fonts, (f) => f.load()));
+  //
+  // `allSettled` (not `all`) because Chrome rejects FontFace.load() with a
+  // generic `DOMException: A network error occurred.` when the font fetch
+  // fails — typically a transient hiccup pulling a non-critical font over the
+  // wire in CI. Letting that bubble out turns the *whole* test red with no URL
+  // attached. The hard-coded IBM Plex Sans `document.fonts.check` below stays
+  // the load-bearing assertion: if the font that actually moves Percy pixels
+  // is missing, fail there with a clear message.
+  let faces = Array.from(document.fonts);
+  let fontResults = await Promise.allSettled(
+    faces.map((f) => f.load().then(() => f)),
+  );
   await document.fonts.ready;
 
-  // The hard-coded Sans check remains as a load-bearing assertion: this font
-  // is the default body font, and a capture without it shifts every text
-  // element by a fraction of a pixel and turns Percy red across the board.
+  let failedFonts = fontResults.flatMap((result, idx) => {
+    if (result.status !== 'rejected') {
+      return [];
+    }
+    let face = faces[idx];
+    let descriptor = face
+      ? `${face.weight} ${face.style} "${face.family}"`
+      : `<font#${idx}>`;
+    return [{ face, descriptor, reason: describeFontLoadError(result.reason) }];
+  });
+
+  // If IBM Plex Sans itself failed to load, fail loud here — `document.fonts
+  // .check(..., '')` below cannot be relied on to catch this: per the WHATWG
+  // spec, `FontFaceSet.check` treats faces in `error` status as settled, and
+  // with empty text it can still return `true` while the required face is
+  // actually unrenderable. Without this explicit guard, Percy would capture
+  // the page with a fallback font silently substituted.
+  let failedRequired = failedFonts.find(
+    ({ face }) => face?.family === 'IBM Plex Sans',
+  );
+  if (failedRequired) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `Required font failed to load: ${failedRequired.descriptor}: ${failedRequired.reason}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  if (failedFonts.length) {
+    let lines = failedFonts.map(
+      ({ descriptor, reason }) => `${descriptor}: ${reason}`,
+    );
+    console.warn(
+      `[percy-snapshot] ${failedFonts.length} @font-face load(s) failed; continuing snapshot. Failures:\n  ${lines.join('\n  ')}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  // Belt-and-suspenders: even if no Sans face entered the `error` status, the
+  // page may still be missing a Sans weight (e.g. never declared, or evicted
+  // after a teardown). A capture without it shifts every text element by a
+  // fraction of a pixel and turns Percy red across the board.
   for (const weight of ['400', '500', '600', '700']) {
     const descriptor = `${weight} 1em IBM Plex Sans`;
     if (!document.fonts.check(descriptor, '')) {
@@ -70,3 +117,16 @@ export default async function percySnapshot(
 
   await originalPercySnapshot(...args);
 }
+
+function describeFontLoadError(reason: unknown): string {
+  if (reason instanceof Error) {
+    let header = reason.name
+      ? `${reason.name}: ${reason.message}`
+      : reason.message;
+    return header || 'Unknown error';
+  }
+  if (typeof reason === 'string') {
+    return reason;
+  }
+  return String(reason);
+}