diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6318a22cf..1633fde3d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ### Fixed
 
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+- Adjusted the `FontCache` font timeout to 400 ms and makes it configurable as a static `FontCache.FONT_TIMEOUT`. This is to help prevent a downward spiral on mobile devices that might take a long while to render a few starting frames causing the cache to repeatedly clear and never recover.
 
 ### Updates
 
diff --git a/src/engine/Graphics/FontCache.ts b/src/engine/Graphics/FontCache.ts
index fd7c466ea..3ec165d1a 100644
--- a/src/engine/Graphics/FontCache.ts
+++ b/src/engine/Graphics/FontCache.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { Font } from './Font';
 import { FontTextInstance } from './FontTextInstance';
 
 export class FontCache {
+  public static FONT_TIMEOUT = 500;
   private static _LOGGER = Logger.getInstance();
   private static _TEXT_USAGE = new Map<FontTextInstance, number>();
   private static _TEXT_CACHE = new Map<string, FontTextInstance>();
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ export class FontCache {
     const currentHashCodes = new Set<string>();
     for (const [textInstance, time] of FontCache._TEXT_USAGE.entries()) {
       // if bitmap hasn't been used in 100 ms clear it
-      if (time + 100 < performance.now()) {
+      if (time + FontCache.FONT_TIMEOUT < performance.now()) {
         FontCache._LOGGER.debug(`Text cache entry timed out ${textInstance.text}`);
         deferred.push(textInstance);
         textInstance.dispose();