diff --git a/fontpreview b/fontpreview
index c4febae..7be6058 100755
--- a/fontpreview
+++ b/fontpreview
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ main(){
     while true; do
         # List out all the fonts which imagemagick is able to find, extract
         # the font names and then pass them to fzf
-        font=$(magick -list font | awk -F: '/^[ ]*Font: /{print substr($NF,2)}' | fzf --prompt="$SEARCH_PROMPT")
+        font=$(magick -list font | awk -F: '/^[ ]*Font: /{print substr($NF,2)}' | sed 's/\\/\\\\/g' | fzf --prompt="$SEARCH_PROMPT")
 
         # Exit if nothing is returned by fzf, which also means that the user
         # has pressed [ESCAPE]