diff --git a/src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/PDFontDescriptor.java b/src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/PDFontDescriptor.java
index 4f3c250d..f448e5e3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/PDFontDescriptor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/PDFontDescriptor.java
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ public static String extractFontFamilyFromFontName(String fontNameWithoutSubset)
 
         String name = fontNameWithoutSubset.trim();
         name = name.replaceAll("\\*\\d+", "");
+        name = name.replaceAll("[,.;:!?]+", "");
 
         boolean changed = true;
         while (changed) {