diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/options.rst b/DOCS/man/en/options.rst
index 1c07403ea7..f9a75779f7 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/options.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/options.rst
@@ -1452,6 +1452,13 @@
         options) are ignored when ASS-subtitles are rendered, unless the
         ``--no-ass`` option is specified.
 
+    .. note::
+
+        By default the OS X Application Bundle ships with a default fontconfig
+        fonts.conf that looks for fonts in the ``~/.mpv/fonts`` folder. It does
+        not include standard OS X paths to reduce the time spent to build
+        fontconfig's cache.
+
 ``--osd-font-size=<size>``, ``--sub-text-font-size=<size>``
     Specify the OSD/sub font size. The unit is the size in scaled pixels at a
     window height of 720. The actual pixel size is scaled with the window
diff --git a/TOOLS/osxbundle/mpv.app/Contents/Resources/fonts.conf b/TOOLS/osxbundle/mpv.app/Contents/Resources/fonts.conf
index 5a2e3d2222..c229cd13c0 100644
--- a/TOOLS/osxbundle/mpv.app/Contents/Resources/fonts.conf
+++ b/TOOLS/osxbundle/mpv.app/Contents/Resources/fonts.conf
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
 <fontconfig>
-  <dir>/System/Library/Fonts</dir>
-  <dir>/Library/Fonts</dir>
-  <dir>~/Library/Fonts</dir>
-  <dir>/Network/Library/Fonts</dir>
-  <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir>
+  <dir>~/.mpv/fonts</dir>
+  <cachedir>~/.mpv/.fontconfig-cache</cachedir>
 
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