diff --git a/widget/textclock.fnl b/widget/textclock.fnl
index 95f57ee..f83663a 100644
--- a/widget/textclock.fnl
+++ b/widget/textclock.fnl
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
         timeout (or timeout 60)
         timezone (or (and timezone (TimeZone.new timezone))
                      (TimeZone.new_local))
-        font (or font beautiful.textclock_font)
+        font (or font beautiful.textclock_font beautiful.font)
         w (wibox.widget.textbox)]
     (var t nil)