diff --git a/crates/svg/src/glyph.rs b/crates/svg/src/glyph.rs
index 5b7753432..4762bfd9d 100644
--- a/crates/svg/src/glyph.rs
+++ b/crates/svg/src/glyph.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ use crate::ImportOptions;
 const MAX_SVG_GLYPH_BYTES: u64 = 1 << 20;
 
 /// Elements left out of a glyph, as the `SVG ` table rules them out: text (type inside type),
-/// embedded content and scripts.
+/// embedded content and scripts (and images of SVG documents, in [`glyph`]).
 const LEFT_OUT: [&str; 3] = ["text", "foreignObject", "script"];
 
 /// Glyph `gid`'s art from its SVG `document` (possibly gzipped), in a font of `upem` units per em:
@@ -98,7 +98,14 @@ fn glyph(svg: &str, id: &str, color: &str) -> Option<Glyph> {
     let at = target.range();
     // Edits: byte ranges to cut and what to put in their place, in order.
     let mut edits: Vec<(Range<usize>, String)> = vec![];
-    for n in root.descendants().filter(|n| n.is_element() && LEFT_OUT.contains(&n.tag_name().name())) {
+    // Cut with the left-out elements: images of SVG documents, as the table asks (a glyph draws no
+    // documents inside it).
+    let svg_image = |n: &roxmltree::Node| {
+        n.tag_name().name() == "image"
+            && n.attributes()
+                .any(|a| a.name() == "href" && a.value().trim_start().get(..14).is_some_and(|v| v.eq_ignore_ascii_case("data:image/svg")))
+    };
+    for n in root.descendants().filter(|n| n.is_element() && (LEFT_OUT.contains(&n.tag_name().name()) || svg_image(n))) {
         edits.push((n.range(), String::new()));
     }
     for a in root.attributes().filter(|a| matches!(a.name(), "width" | "height" | "color")) {
diff --git a/crates/svg/tests/svg_glyphs.rs b/crates/svg/tests/svg_glyphs.rs
index bdd621961..378169699 100644
--- a/crates/svg/tests/svg_glyphs.rs
+++ b/crates/svg/tests/svg_glyphs.rs
@@ -211,3 +211,22 @@ fn images_are_in_the_art_with_their_pixels() {
     let b = art.geometric_bounds().unwrap();
     assert!(b.x0.abs() < 1e-6 && (b.width() - 500.0).abs() < 1e-6 && (b.y0 + 500.0).abs() < 1e-6, "in font units: {b:?}");
 }
+
+/// An image whose data is an SVG document is left out, as the `SVG ` table asks: a glyph draws no
+/// documents inside it.
+#[test]
+fn svg_images_are_left_out() {
+    let inner = r##"<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="10" height="10"><rect width="10" height="10" fill="#f00"/></svg>"##;
+    let doc = format!(
+        r##"<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g id="glyph1">
+      <path fill="#00f" d="M0 0h500v-500z"/>
+      <image width="500" height="500" xlink:href="data:image/svg+xml;base64,{}"/>
+      <image width="500" height="500" href=" DATA:image/SVG+xml;utf8,{}"/>
+    </g></svg>"##,
+        vectorcraft_svg::base64_encode(inner.as_bytes()),
+        vectorcraft_svg::xml_escape(&inner.replace('#', "%23"))
+    );
+    let fills = fills(&art(&doc, 1).unwrap());
+    assert!(fills.contains(&Paint::solid(Color::rgb8(0, 0, 255))), "the glyph's own art");
+    assert!(!fills.contains(&Paint::solid(Color::rgb8(255, 0, 0))), "not the images' documents: {fills:?}");
+}