diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md
index ace7702e..b03bc8f8 100644
--- a/ROADMAP.md
+++ b/ROADMAP.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 **Stage: alpha** · next: beta, ~26 points and ~162–292 h away (one Opus 5.5 agent; ~33–67 h wall-clock with 5 agents)
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (system theme on first run; recent files as cards with thumbnails on the home screen; community fixes: lost images reported on loading (#207), SVG import budgets (#190), Leptos code (#223), full screen (#227), server snapshots readable again (#188), owner-only preferences (#200), ruzstd 0.9.1 (#182), layer cycle repair (#205), batch rollback, Direct3D 12 on Windows, plugin metering (#192); vector edit mode regions: hover hatch, selection and drag; SVG/PDF exports refuse over-depth documents (#208); bounded MCP/control framing, connections and queues (#201); plugin log limits (#191); live-session revert guard (#198); attached MCP no longer replays after a lost reply (#194); repeat command recursion fix; the Layout panel's constrain-proportions link scales the other side, #220; core editor leftovers: component playground, auto gap handles, variables inside styles, inner shadows and background blur on groups, command-made text readable on dark pages, a one-step frame/group convert, delays on mouse triggers and manual overlay offsets, wrapped-line alignment; `.fig` export: instance sizes, variables with modes, shared styles, variable-width strokes; starter templates, a Templates tab and Getting started tips on the home screen; your online files; everyday editing partials: number fields, outline options, Hide when publishing, cursors, panel widths, dark pages; sharing with a join code; text box sizes measured against documents re-saved by other software; live sessions per document; .fig export checked by opening written files in other software; a public figcraft-server: open hosting, owner tokens, per-address limits, idle expiry, moderation, install.sh; experimental .fig export; keyboard shortcut parity suite and bindings; Simplified Chinese draft catalog; Latin American Spanish overlay; prototyping tail: gamepad triggers, widgets in prototypes, mode lookups; plugin directory on figcraft-server; Japanese and Korean draft catalogs and CJK UI fonts; plugin widgets and the plugin panel tail; French, German and Brazilian Portuguese draft catalogs; cursor chat and spotlight in live sessions; layers and assets panels behaviour suite and fixes; vector multi-edit and edit tail; dev resources links; extended collections tail; branch version history and finer list merges; headline percentages recomputed from the area table: feature breadth ~84%, core ~94%, mainstream ~50%; text lists, hanging punctuation and decoration styles; comments and version history behaviour suite and fixes; canvas navigation, guides and grids behaviour suite and fixes; export and inspect behaviour suite and fixes; .fig import: editable vector networks and more layer kinds; shapes and vector behaviour suite and fixes; paint and effects behaviour suite and fixes; frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite and fixes; styles and variables behaviour suite and fixes; prototyping behaviour suite and fixes; components behaviour suite and fixes; embedded image colour profiles; layers panel keyboard: F2 rename, Shift+F10 context menu, keyboard box selection, 10k-layer QA; per-side stroke weight variables; text behaviour suite: CJK line breaking, metrics, vertical trim; selection and transform behaviour suite and fixes; `.fig` import, best effort; Windows QA pass with eight fixes; auto layout behaviour suite and fixes; Display P3: gamut warning and soft-proof (true P3 blocked upstream); several windows; localization layer with a draft Spanish catalog; hosting figcraft-server: wss in the desktop app, server releases, deployment guide; plugin panels and settings; canvas fixes: boolean hit testing on the result, group drags, frame outlines and slices; code connect; stretch and scatter brushes, pen pressure; text on a path and pattern fills; team libraries on the server and swap library; branches: create, update from main, review and merge; animated GIF fills and TIFF images; Open recent, outlines for the selection and mask outlines: menu breadth 100%; extended collections, variables import/export, gradient stop and variant bindings; feature breadth ~80%; ready ~49%) · **Target:** Figma Design (desktop app 126.10.7)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (font scans skip named pipes; system theme on first run; recent files as cards with thumbnails on the home screen; community fixes: lost images reported on loading (#207), SVG import budgets (#190), Leptos code (#223), full screen (#227), server snapshots readable again (#188), owner-only preferences (#200), ruzstd 0.9.1 (#182), layer cycle repair (#205), batch rollback, Direct3D 12 on Windows, plugin metering (#192); vector edit mode regions: hover hatch, selection and drag; SVG/PDF exports refuse over-depth documents (#208); bounded MCP/control framing, connections and queues (#201); plugin log limits (#191); live-session revert guard (#198); attached MCP no longer replays after a lost reply (#194); repeat command recursion fix; the Layout panel's constrain-proportions link scales the other side, #220; core editor leftovers: component playground, auto gap handles, variables inside styles, inner shadows and background blur on groups, command-made text readable on dark pages, a one-step frame/group convert, delays on mouse triggers and manual overlay offsets, wrapped-line alignment; `.fig` export: instance sizes, variables with modes, shared styles, variable-width strokes; starter templates, a Templates tab and Getting started tips on the home screen; your online files; everyday editing partials: number fields, outline options, Hide when publishing, cursors, panel widths, dark pages; sharing with a join code; text box sizes measured against documents re-saved by other software; live sessions per document; .fig export checked by opening written files in other software; a public figcraft-server: open hosting, owner tokens, per-address limits, idle expiry, moderation, install.sh; experimental .fig export; keyboard shortcut parity suite and bindings; Simplified Chinese draft catalog; Latin American Spanish overlay; prototyping tail: gamepad triggers, widgets in prototypes, mode lookups; plugin directory on figcraft-server; Japanese and Korean draft catalogs and CJK UI fonts; plugin widgets and the plugin panel tail; French, German and Brazilian Portuguese draft catalogs; cursor chat and spotlight in live sessions; layers and assets panels behaviour suite and fixes; vector multi-edit and edit tail; dev resources links; extended collections tail; branch version history and finer list merges; headline percentages recomputed from the area table: feature breadth ~84%, core ~94%, mainstream ~50%; text lists, hanging punctuation and decoration styles; comments and version history behaviour suite and fixes; canvas navigation, guides and grids behaviour suite and fixes; export and inspect behaviour suite and fixes; .fig import: editable vector networks and more layer kinds; shapes and vector behaviour suite and fixes; paint and effects behaviour suite and fixes; frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite and fixes; styles and variables behaviour suite and fixes; prototyping behaviour suite and fixes; components behaviour suite and fixes; embedded image colour profiles; layers panel keyboard: F2 rename, Shift+F10 context menu, keyboard box selection, 10k-layer QA; per-side stroke weight variables; text behaviour suite: CJK line breaking, metrics, vertical trim; selection and transform behaviour suite and fixes; `.fig` import, best effort; Windows QA pass with eight fixes; auto layout behaviour suite and fixes; Display P3: gamut warning and soft-proof (true P3 blocked upstream); several windows; localization layer with a draft Spanish catalog; hosting figcraft-server: wss in the desktop app, server releases, deployment guide; plugin panels and settings; canvas fixes: boolean hit testing on the result, group drags, frame outlines and slices; code connect; stretch and scatter brushes, pen pressure; text on a path and pattern fills; team libraries on the server and swap library; branches: create, update from main, review and merge; animated GIF fills and TIFF images; Open recent, outlines for the selection and mask outlines: menu breadth 100%; extended collections, variables import/export, gradient stop and variant bindings; feature breadth ~80%; ready ~49%) · **Target:** Figma Design (desktop app 126.10.7)
 
 FigCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust reimplementation of the Figma design workflow,
 native on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD and in the browser, fully drivable by agents through
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ Ranked; detail and milestones in [`docs/roadmap.md`](docs/roadmap.md).
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-15 | minor | M7: system font discovery skips entries observed as non-regular files before opening them, avoiding the reproduced named-pipe stall. Regular-file symlinks remain supported; directory depth, font limits and priorities are unchanged. Numbers unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | System theme on first run (M7): preferences without a theme default to System; the first frame reads the OS appearance directly, including when returning from a manual theme. Saved Light/Dark choices stay explicit; unavailable OS appearance falls back to Light. Numbers unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Home screen recent files as cards (M7): each card shows the picture its file carries on its first page's colour, the file's icon, name and "Edited ... ago"; sort by name, creation or last change either way; a table view; a click selects, a double-click or Enter opens, arrow keys move; Open, Show in folder and Remove from recents on right-click. Numbers unchanged. |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Lost images reported on loading (#207): a `.figcraft` file whose image member is damaged, too large or missing no longer loads in silence; each lost image (up to 20, then a count) is listed in `repairs` on `file.open` with its hash and the reason, and the app shows it as a toast. Saving still writes the file without the lost images. Numbers unchanged |
diff --git a/crates/text/src/fontdb.rs b/crates/text/src/fontdb.rs
index 2c584ebc..8f91d83f 100644
--- a/crates/text/src/fontdb.rs
+++ b/crates/text/src/fontdb.rs
@@ -695,6 +695,11 @@ fn scan_dir(dir: &std::path::Path, depth: usize, out: &mut BTreeMap<String, (Str
             scan_dir(&path, depth + 1, out);
             continue;
         }
+        // Font-like names can also belong to pipes or devices; opening a pipe can block.
+        // `meta` follows symlinks, so links to regular font files remain supported.
+        if !meta.is_file() {
+            continue;
+        }
         let ext = path.extension().and_then(|e| e.to_str()).map(str::to_ascii_lowercase).unwrap_or_default();
         if !matches!(ext.as_str(), "ttf" | "otf" | "ttc" | "otc") {
             continue;
diff --git a/crates/text/src/fontdb_tests.rs b/crates/text/src/fontdb_tests.rs
index b9add9c2..960e5ffa 100644
--- a/crates/text/src/fontdb_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/text/src/fontdb_tests.rs
@@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ fn the_scan_reads_names_like_a_whole_file_read() {
                 let p = e.path();
                 if p.is_dir() {
                     stack.push(p);
-                } else if p.extension().is_some_and(|x| ["ttf", "otf", "ttc", "otc"].contains(&x.to_ascii_lowercase().to_str().unwrap_or(""))) {
+                } else if p.is_file()
+                    && p.extension().is_some_and(|x| ["ttf", "otf", "ttc", "otc"].contains(&x.to_ascii_lowercase().to_str().unwrap_or("")))
+                {
                     files.push(p);
                 }
             }
@@ -67,3 +69,72 @@ fn the_scan_reads_names_like_a_whole_file_read() {
         assert_eq!(faces_in(&index_bytes(&p, whole.len()).unwrap()), faces_in(&whole), "{}", p.display());
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(unix)]
+#[test]
+fn the_scan_skips_named_pipes() {
+    use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
+    use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
+
+    const INPUT: &str = "FIGCRAFT_TEST_PIPE_FONT_DIR";
+    if let Some(dir) = std::env::var_os(INPUT) {
+        let mut pending = BTreeMap::new();
+        scan_dir(std::path::Path::new(&dir), 0, &mut pending);
+        assert!(pending.is_empty());
+        std::fs::write(std::path::Path::new(&dir).join("complete"), b"scanned").unwrap();
+        return;
+    }
+
+    struct TempDir(std::path::PathBuf);
+    impl Drop for TempDir {
+        fn drop(&mut self) {
+            let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(&self.0);
+        }
+    }
+    let path = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("figcraft-font-pipe-{}", std::process::id()));
+    std::fs::create_dir(&path).unwrap();
+    let dir = TempDir(path);
+    // POSIX mkfifo is only a test fixture helper, never a runtime font dependency.
+    let status = match Command::new("mkfifo").arg(dir.0.join("pipe.ttf")).status() {
+        Ok(status) => status,
+        Err(error) if error.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => {
+            eprintln!("skipping named-pipe fixture: POSIX mkfifo is unavailable");
+            return;
+        }
+        Err(error) => panic!("cannot create named-pipe fixture: {error}"),
+    };
+    assert!(status.success(), "mkfifo failed");
+    std::os::unix::fs::symlink("pipe.ttf", dir.0.join("linked.otf")).unwrap();
+    std::os::unix::fs::symlink("missing.ttf", dir.0.join("broken.ttf")).unwrap();
+
+    // A regression must fail without leaving a blocked test thread behind. Run only this
+    // test in a child, then kill and reap it if opening the pipe blocks the scanner.
+    struct Child(std::process::Child);
+    impl Drop for Child {
+        fn drop(&mut self) {
+            let _ = self.0.kill();
+            let _ = self.0.wait();
+        }
+    }
+    let module = module_path!().split_once("::").unwrap().1;
+    let mut child = Child(
+        Command::new(std::env::current_exe().unwrap())
+            .args(["--exact", &format!("{module}::the_scan_skips_named_pipes"), "--nocapture"])
+            .env(INPUT, &dir.0)
+            .stdout(Stdio::null())
+            .spawn()
+            .unwrap(),
+    );
+    let deadline = Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(10);
+    loop {
+        if let Some(status) = child.0.try_wait().unwrap() {
+            assert!(status.success(), "font-scan child failed: {status}");
+            break;
+        }
+        assert!(Instant::now() < deadline, "font scan blocked on a named pipe");
+        // std::process has no portable timed wait; a bounded poll keeps the regression finite.
+        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(10));
+    }
+    // An exact-filter typo otherwise makes libtest report success after running zero tests.
+    assert_eq!(std::fs::read(dir.0.join("complete")).unwrap(), b"scanned");
+}