diff --git a/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt b/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt
index 078a0617c9..d557434d78 100644
--- a/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt
+++ b/.github/vale/Vocab/Backstage/accept.txt
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ reusability
 Reusability
 roadmaps
 rollbar
+Roboto
 Rollbar
 Rollup
 routable
diff --git a/docs/features/techdocs/how-to-guides.md b/docs/features/techdocs/how-to-guides.md
index 29f985904f..afc257f20b 100644
--- a/docs/features/techdocs/how-to-guides.md
+++ b/docs/features/techdocs/how-to-guides.md
@@ -504,6 +504,18 @@ folder (/docs) or replace the content in this file.
 
 Done! You now have support for TechDocs in your own software template!
 
+### Prevent download of Google fonts
+
+If your Backstage instance does not have internet access, the generation will fail. TechDocs tries to download the Roboto font from Google. You can disable it by adding the following lines to mkdocs.yaml:
+
+```yaml
+theme:
+  name: material
+  font: false
+```
+
+> Note: The addition `name: material` is necessary. Otherwise it will not work
+
 ## How to enable iframes in TechDocs
 
 TechDocs uses the [DOMPurify](https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify) library to