diff --git a/packages/core/src/compiler/htmlBundler.test.ts b/packages/core/src/compiler/htmlBundler.test.ts
index 95441bf3f3..fc63c86054 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/compiler/htmlBundler.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/compiler/htmlBundler.test.ts
@@ -2589,6 +2589,26 @@ describe("bundleToSingleHtml", () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it("reads a font declared in a linked stylesheet, as hyperframes lint does", async () => {
+    const dir = makeTempProject({
+      "index.html": `<!doctype html><html><head><link rel="stylesheet" href="fonts.css"><style>#root { font-family: 'Hiragino Sans'; }</style></head><body>
+  <div id="root" data-composition-id="root" data-width="320" data-height="180" data-duration="1"></div>
+  <script>window.__timelines = {};</script>
+</body></html>`,
+      "fonts.css": `@font-face { font-family: 'Hiragino Sans'; src: local('Hiragino Sans W3'); }`,
+    });
+    const warnSpy = vi.spyOn(console, "warn").mockImplementation(() => {});
+    try {
+      await bundleToSingleHtml(dir);
+      const guard = warnSpy.mock.calls
+        .map((call) => String(call[0] ?? ""))
+        .filter((line) => line.includes("[StaticGuard]"));
+      expect(guard).toEqual([]);
+    } finally {
+      warnSpy.mockRestore();
+    }
+  });
+
   it("runs the StaticGuard lint unless staticGuard is false", async () => {
     const dir = makeTempProject({
       "index.html": `<!doctype html><html><head></head><body>
diff --git a/packages/core/src/compiler/htmlBundler.ts b/packages/core/src/compiler/htmlBundler.ts
index 37abbbb008..22327d4a15 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/compiler/htmlBundler.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/compiler/htmlBundler.ts
@@ -1104,7 +1104,11 @@ async function bundleProject(projectDir: string, options?: BundleOptions): Promi
   const compiled = await compileHtml(rawHtml, sourceDir, options?.probeMediaDuration);
 
   if (options?.staticGuard !== false && !mountedShell) {
-    const staticGuard = await validateHyperframeHtmlContract(compiled);
+    const entryRel = relative(projectDir, indexPath).replace(/\\/g, "/");
+    const staticGuard = await validateHyperframeHtmlContract(compiled, {
+      dir: projectDir,
+      ...(entryRel !== "index.html" && { compSrcPath: entryRel }),
+    });
     if (!staticGuard.isValid) {
       console.warn(
         `[StaticGuard] Invalid HyperFrame contract: ${staticGuard.missingKeys.join("; ")}`,
diff --git a/packages/core/src/compiler/staticGuard.ts b/packages/core/src/compiler/staticGuard.ts
index 568a6133a6..d13be15214 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/compiler/staticGuard.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/compiler/staticGuard.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { lintHyperframeHtml } from "@hyperframes/lint";
+import { collectExternalStyles, lintHyperframeHtml } from "@hyperframes/lint";
 
 export type HyperframeStaticFailureReason =
   | "missing_composition_id"
@@ -15,8 +15,14 @@ export type HyperframeStaticGuardResult = {
 
 export async function validateHyperframeHtmlContract(
   html: string,
+  project?: { dir: string; compSrcPath?: string },
 ): Promise<HyperframeStaticGuardResult> {
-  const result = await lintHyperframeHtml(html);
+  const result = await lintHyperframeHtml(
+    html,
+    project && {
+      externalStyles: collectExternalStyles(project.dir, html, project.compSrcPath),
+    },
+  );
   const missingKeys = result.findings
     .filter((finding) => finding.severity === "error")
     .map((finding) => finding.message);
diff --git a/packages/core/src/fonts/deterministicFonts-shorthand.test.ts b/packages/core/src/fonts/deterministicFonts-shorthand.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f2ae8112a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/src/fonts/deterministicFonts-shorthand.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// @vitest-environment node
+import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { mkdtempSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { injectDeterministicFontFaces } from "./deterministicFonts.js";
+
+let previousCacheDir: string | undefined;
+let testCacheDir: string;
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  previousCacheDir = process.env.HYPERFRAMES_FONT_CACHE_DIR;
+  testCacheDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "hf-font-shorthand-"));
+  process.env.HYPERFRAMES_FONT_CACHE_DIR = testCacheDir;
+});
+
+afterAll(() => {
+  if (previousCacheDir === undefined) delete process.env.HYPERFRAMES_FONT_CACHE_DIR;
+  else process.env.HYPERFRAMES_FONT_CACHE_DIR = previousCacheDir;
+  rmSync(testCacheDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+});
+
+const offline = (async () => {
+  throw new Error("offline");
+}) as unknown as typeof fetch;
+
+const inject = (css: string) =>
+  injectDeterministicFontFaces(`<html><head><style>${css}</style></head><body>x</body></html>`, {
+    fetchImpl: offline,
+    allowSystemFontCapture: false,
+  });
+
+describe("a bundled family named only in the font shorthand loads", () => {
+  it.each([
+    ["size and family", "p { font: 24px Inter, sans-serif; }"],
+    ["weight, size, line-height", "p { font: 700 24px/1.2 Inter, sans-serif; }"],
+    ["style, variant, weight, size", 'p { font: italic small-caps bold 1.5rem "Inter", serif; }'],
+    ["a keyword size", "p { font: bold large Inter; }"],
+    ["a calc() size", "p { font: calc(10px + 2vw) Inter; }"],
+  ])("%s", async (_case, css) => {
+    expect(await inject(css)).toMatch(/@font-face\s*\{[^}]*font-family:\s*"Inter"/i);
+  });
+
+  it("ignores a system-font keyword", async () => {
+    expect(await inject("p { font: caption; }")).not.toContain("@font-face");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/core/src/fonts/deterministicFonts.ts b/packages/core/src/fonts/deterministicFonts.ts
index 316eb3ae30..2bb382872f 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/fonts/deterministicFonts.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/fonts/deterministicFonts.ts
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ export function normalizeSystemFontPrimaryFamilies(
 }
 
 /** Surfaces font-family is declared on in served HTML. */
-export type FontFamilySurface = "font-family" | "data-font-family";
+export type FontFamilySurface = "font-family" | "font" | "data-font-family";
 
 export type FontFamilyDeclaration = {
   surface: FontFamilySurface;
@@ -263,16 +263,32 @@ function collectCssCustomProperties(css: string, customProperties: Map<string, s
   });
 }
 
+const FONT_SIZE_KEYWORD =
+  /^(?:xx-small|x-small|small|medium|large|x-large|xx-large|xxx-large|smaller|larger)$/i;
+const FONT_SIZE_TOKEN = /^(?:\d*\.?\d+[a-z%]+|(?:calc|min|max|clamp|var)\(.*\))(?:\/\S+)?$/i;
+
+function fontShorthandFamilies(value: string): string {
+  for (const token of value.matchAll(/(?:[^\s(]|\([^)]*\))+/g)) {
+    const size = token[0].split("/")[0] ?? "";
+    if (FONT_SIZE_KEYWORD.test(size) || FONT_SIZE_TOKEN.test(token[0])) {
+      return value.slice(token.index + token[0].length).trim();
+    }
+  }
+  return "";
+}
+
 function* iterateCssRootFontFamilyDeclarations(
   root: postcss.Root,
 ): Generator<FontFamilyDeclaration> {
   const declarations: FontFamilyDeclaration[] = [];
   root.walkDecls((decl) => {
-    if (decl.prop.toLowerCase() !== "font-family") return;
+    const prop = decl.prop.toLowerCase();
+    if (prop !== "font-family" && prop !== "font") return;
     if (isFontFaceDeclaration(decl)) return;
-    const declaration = decl.value;
+    const declaration = prop === "font" ? fontShorthandFamilies(decl.value) : decl.value;
+    if (!declaration) return;
     declarations.push({
-      surface: "font-family",
+      surface: prop,
       declaration,
       families: parseFontFamilyValue(declaration),
     });
@@ -281,7 +297,7 @@ function* iterateCssRootFontFamilyDeclarations(
 }
 
 function* iterateCssFontFamilyDeclarations(css: string): Generator<FontFamilyDeclaration> {
-  if (!/font-family/i.test(css)) return;
+  if (!/font(?:-family)?\s*:/i.test(css)) return;
   const root = parseCssRoot(css);
   if (!root) return;
   yield* iterateCssRootFontFamilyDeclarations(root);
diff --git a/packages/lint/src/index.ts b/packages/lint/src/index.ts
index c6f707a9fe..060cbf1a92 100644
--- a/packages/lint/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/lint/src/index.ts
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ export {
   LINT_RULE_COUNT,
   LINT_RULE_GROUP_COUNTS,
 } from "./hyperframeLinter.js";
-export { lintProject, shouldBlockRender } from "./project.js";
+export { collectExternalStyles, lintProject, shouldBlockRender } from "./project.js";
 export type { ProjectLintResult } from "./project.js";
diff --git a/packages/lint/src/project.ts b/packages/lint/src/project.ts
index da71259d1e..bd31c920ce 100644
--- a/packages/lint/src/project.ts
+++ b/packages/lint/src/project.ts
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ function collectLocalStylesheets(
   return styles;
 }
 
-function collectExternalStyles(
+export function collectExternalStyles(
   projectDir: string,
   html: string,
   compSrcPath?: string,
diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/render/planValidation.test.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/render/planValidation.test.ts
index df0dc15879..e8ad270612 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/render/planValidation.test.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/render/planValidation.test.ts
@@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ describe("validateNoSystemFonts", () => {
     expect(() => validateNoSystemFonts(CLEAN_HTML)).not.toThrow();
   });
 
+  it("passes a font shorthand with a generic primary, as it did before shorthands loaded faces", () => {
+    const html = `<!doctype html><html><head><style>p { font: 16px system-ui; } b { font: bold 56px sans-serif; }</style></head><body>x</body></html>`;
+    expect(() => validateNoSystemFonts(html)).not.toThrow();
+  });
+
   it("passes when font-family is absent entirely (plain text composition)", () => {
     expect(() =>
       validateNoSystemFonts(`<!doctype html><html><body><p>no fonts here</p></body></html>`),
diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/render/planValidation.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/render/planValidation.ts
index b072c42566..e933d40a48 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/render/planValidation.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/render/planValidation.ts
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ export function validateNoGpuEncode(config: ValidateNoGpuEncodeInput): void {
 export function validateNoSystemFonts(compiledHtml: string): void {
   const customProperties = collectFontFamilyCustomProperties(compiledHtml);
   for (const { surface, declaration } of iterateFontFamilyDeclarations(compiledHtml)) {
+    if (surface === "font") continue;
     const families = resolveFontFamilyDeclarationFamilies(declaration, customProperties);
     if (families.length === 0) continue;
     const primaryRaw = families[0]!;
diff --git a/packages/producer/tests/distributed/plan-v2-partial-color/output/compiled.html b/packages/producer/tests/distributed/plan-v2-partial-color/output/compiled.html
index 86237903aa..d92822299c 100644
--- a/packages/producer/tests/distributed/plan-v2-partial-color/output/compiled.html
+++ b/packages/producer/tests/distributed/plan-v2-partial-color/output/compiled.html
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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-oid sha256:50bb159e7aad75a5672f4918411635b1fd5ef291e217f63734b4589ef949d263
-size 1438
+oid sha256:03446907f3ff3409c0a7fd32bce7d51c404355bf999423377a9766f9bf52873e
+size 169894
diff --git a/packages/producer/tests/distributed/plan-v2-partial-color/output/output.mp4 b/packages/producer/tests/distributed/plan-v2-partial-color/output/output.mp4
index f3a4056d82..f0e9b805e5 100644
--- a/packages/producer/tests/distributed/plan-v2-partial-color/output/output.mp4
+++ b/packages/producer/tests/distributed/plan-v2-partial-color/output/output.mp4
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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-oid sha256:1f7c0a9d6609ead40648c7a3fba862c7fbedc97bcf42700363613e509debc504
-size 4474
+oid sha256:8c28e8e4b657cce67f0a15ce40921646b7127dcaeeff97f5548923d9b1d76ee4
+size 4386
diff --git a/packages/producer/tests/distributed/static-volume-future-set/output/compiled.html b/packages/producer/tests/distributed/static-volume-future-set/output/compiled.html
index c09aef5fde..ec8445d8dc 100644
--- a/packages/producer/tests/distributed/static-volume-future-set/output/compiled.html
+++ b/packages/producer/tests/distributed/static-volume-future-set/output/compiled.html
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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-size 87166
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+size 278754
diff --git a/packages/producer/tests/distributed/static-volume-future-set/output/output.mp4 b/packages/producer/tests/distributed/static-volume-future-set/output/output.mp4
index 9445a62931..35d9f4fa6f 100644
--- a/packages/producer/tests/distributed/static-volume-future-set/output/output.mp4
+++ b/packages/producer/tests/distributed/static-volume-future-set/output/output.mp4
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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-size 40122
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+size 41471
diff --git a/packages/producer/tests/gradient-text-layered-child/output/compiled.html b/packages/producer/tests/gradient-text-layered-child/output/compiled.html
index 00d89c5a93..51ded702c5 100644
--- a/packages/producer/tests/gradient-text-layered-child/output/compiled.html
+++ b/packages/producer/tests/gradient-text-layered-child/output/compiled.html
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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-size 2468
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+size 170510
diff --git a/packages/producer/tests/gradient-text-layered-child/output/output.mp4 b/packages/producer/tests/gradient-text-layered-child/output/output.mp4
index 71f60fffb2..ba90a0a174 100644
--- a/packages/producer/tests/gradient-text-layered-child/output/output.mp4
+++ b/packages/producer/tests/gradient-text-layered-child/output/output.mp4
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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-size 43807
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+size 35916