diff --git a/src/html.cc b/src/html.cc
index fb64a1f..9ed1519 100644
--- a/src/html.cc
+++ b/src/html.cc
@@ -1994,12 +1994,10 @@ static void Html_tag_open_font(DilloHtml *html, const char *tag, int tagsize)
    }
 
    if ((attrbuf = a_Html_get_attr(html, tag, tagsize, "face"))) {
-      fontFamily = dStrdup(attrbuf);
+      std::string fontFamily = attrbuf;
        html->styleEngine->setNonCssHint (CSS_PROPERTY_FONT_FAMILY,
-                                         CSS_TYPE_SYMBOL, fontFamily);
+                                         CSS_TYPE_SYMBOL, fontFamily.c_str());
    }
-
-   dFree(fontFamily);
 }
 
 /*