diff --git a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qcoretextfontdatabase.mm b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qcoretextfontdatabase.mm
index f31f58945b5..91c2dc8cf08 100644
--- a/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qcoretextfontdatabase.mm
+++ b/src/platformsupport/fontdatabases/mac/qcoretextfontdatabase.mm
@@ -451,16 +451,15 @@ QFontEngine *QCoreTextFontDatabaseEngineFactory<QFontEngineFT>::fontEngine(const
 {
     CTFontDescriptorRef descriptor = static_cast<CTFontDescriptorRef>(usrPtr);
 
-    if (NSURL *url = descriptorAttribute<NSURL>(descriptor, kCTFontURLAttribute)) {
+    if (NSValue *fontDataValue = descriptorAttribute<NSValue>(descriptor, (CFStringRef)kQtFontDataAttribute)) {
+        QByteArray *fontData = static_cast<QByteArray *>(fontDataValue.pointerValue);
+        return QFontEngineFT::create(*fontData, fontDef.pixelSize,
+            static_cast<QFont::HintingPreference>(fontDef.hintingPreference));
+    } else if (NSURL *url = descriptorAttribute<NSURL>(descriptor, kCTFontURLAttribute)) {
         Q_ASSERT(url.fileURL);
         QFontEngine::FaceId faceId;
         faceId.filename = QString::fromNSString(url.path).toUtf8();
         return QFontEngineFT::create(fontDef, faceId);
-
-    } else if (NSValue *fontDataValue = descriptorAttribute<NSValue>(descriptor, (CFStringRef)kQtFontDataAttribute)) {
-        QByteArray *fontData = static_cast<QByteArray *>(fontDataValue.pointerValue);
-        return QFontEngineFT::create(*fontData, fontDef.pixelSize,
-            static_cast<QFont::HintingPreference>(fontDef.hintingPreference));
     }
     Q_UNREACHABLE();
 }