diff --git a/components/gfx/platform/freetype/font_context.rs b/components/gfx/platform/freetype/font_context.rs
index eeaec2a0491..887c321781d 100644
--- a/components/gfx/platform/freetype/font_context.rs
+++ b/components/gfx/platform/freetype/font_context.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ struct User {
 }
 
 // FreeType doesn't require any particular alignment for allocations.
-const FT_ALIGNMENT: usize = 0;
+const FT_ALIGNMENT: usize = 1;
 
 extern fn ft_alloc(mem: FT_Memory, req_size: c_long) -> *mut c_void {
     unsafe {