diff --git a/crates/engine/src/doc_state.rs b/crates/engine/src/doc_state.rs
index c3722f6ad2..780616c07a 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/doc_state.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/doc_state.rs
@@ -369,12 +369,13 @@ impl DocState {
     /// menu asks on every frame it is open, and measuring builds the solids of 3D effects, so the
     /// answer is kept for this version of the document and those artboards, and a change of the
     /// selection or the view keeps it. It is measured again when what the measure reads outside the
-    /// document changes: the installed plug-ins, whose effects draw art, and the installed fonts,
-    /// which set the bounds of all type.
+    /// document changes: the installed plug-ins, whose effects draw art, and the installed fonts and
+    /// the hyphenation exceptions, which set the bounds of all type.
     pub fn any_art_to_fit(&self, indices: &[usize]) -> bool {
-        self.any_art_to_fit_with(indices, (vectorcraft_plugins::registry::revision(), vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation()))
+        self.any_art_to_fit_with(indices, (vectorcraft_plugins::registry::revision(), vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs()))
     }
-    /// [`Self::any_art_to_fit`], with `outside` the generations of the plug-ins and the fonts.
+    /// [`Self::any_art_to_fit`], with `outside` the generations of the plug-ins and the layout inputs
+    /// ([`vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs`]).
     pub(crate) fn any_art_to_fit_with(&self, indices: &[usize], outside: (u64, u64)) -> bool {
         // Measuring runs renderer and plug-in code; should it ever ask again while measuring, it
         // is measured without being kept rather than borrowed twice.
diff --git a/crates/engine/src/session/documents.rs b/crates/engine/src/session/documents.rs
index 5ceaf86aaf..a87b47be0e 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/session/documents.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/session/documents.rs
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@ impl Session {
         // Clicks find an image's own fills and strokes where their effects draw them.
         vectorcraft_doc::hit::set_image_paint(vectorcraft_render::effects::image_paint);
         // Clicks find a blend's steps and an envelope's distorted art where the canvas draws them,
-        // evaluated again when the fonts or the plug-ins change.
+        // evaluated again when the fonts, the hyphenation exceptions or the plug-ins change.
         vectorcraft_doc::hit::set_live_art(vectorcraft_render::effects::expand_live, || {
-            vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation().rotate_left(32) ^ vectorcraft_render::effects::plugin_revision()
+            let mut h = std::hash::DefaultHasher::new();
+            std::hash::Hash::hash(&(vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs(), vectorcraft_render::effects::plugin_revision()), &mut h);
+            std::hash::Hasher::finish(&h)
         });
         // Envelopes map type from the bounds of its glyph outlines, underlines and strikethroughs.
         vectorcraft_text::register_envelope_ink();
diff --git a/crates/render/src/frame.rs b/crates/render/src/frame.rs
index e16f134aca..7d000aa64f 100644
--- a/crates/render/src/frame.rs
+++ b/crates/render/src/frame.rs
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ pub(crate) struct PlacedEntry {
     pub(crate) art: std::sync::Weak<Node>,
     /// The art placed, or `None` for art placed again in every frame ([`depends_on_document`]).
     pub(crate) placed: Option<Arc<Node>>,
-    /// The font generation ([`vectorcraft_text::FontDb::generation`]) the art was placed in, when
-    /// it holds type: the art is placed again when the fonts change.
+    /// The layout inputs ([`vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs`]) the art was placed with, when it
+    /// holds type: the art is placed again when the fonts or the hyphenation exceptions change.
     pub(crate) fonts: Option<u64>,
     /// The 9-slice map the art was placed through ([`Renderer::sliced_art`]), or `None` for art
     /// placed by the transform alone ([`Renderer::placed_art`]). An entry is used only by the
diff --git a/crates/render/src/fx/pixels.rs b/crates/render/src/fx/pixels.rs
index 72731f7330..cdf817f1e4 100644
--- a/crates/render/src/fx/pixels.rs
+++ b/crates/render/src/fx/pixels.rs
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ impl Renderer {
     /// brush library it reads; for images and placed documents their pixels and files, the
     /// layer's Dim Images and the options they are drawn with (with
     /// [`crate::RenderOptions::kept_images_only`], also which pixels and undecodable notes the
-    /// image store holds); for type the fonts, whether overprinting shows
+    /// image store holds); for type the fonts and the hyphenation exceptions, whether overprinting shows
     /// ([`crate::proof::overprints`]) and Document Setup's substitution highlights; and the
     /// plug-ins installed, with the names of the document's swatches and patterns and its pattern
     /// definitions (a plug-in's painted pieces can name them), when an object in it has a plug-in
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ impl Renderer {
                 f.doc.setup.highlight_substituted_glyphs,
                 o.highlight_alternate_glyphs,
             ));
-            (vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation(), crate::proof::overprints(f.opts), highlights).hash(&mut h);
+            (vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs(), crate::proof::overprints(f.opts), highlights).hash(&mut h);
         }
         if reads.plugins || (doc.plugins && (reads.symbols || reads.patterns)) {
             (effects::plugin_revision(), doc.names, doc.patterns).hash(&mut h);
diff --git a/crates/render/src/lib.rs b/crates/render/src/lib.rs
index 141c3524c5..6a92d91e8f 100644
--- a/crates/render/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/render/src/lib.rs
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ pub struct Renderer {
     /// The latest cached glyph geometry for each text object id. A move changes the node's Arc
     /// but not its glyphs in text space, so the old geometry can still be used after comparison.
     text_ids: PtrMap<NodeId, usize>,
-    /// The [`vectorcraft_text::FontDb::generation`] `texts` was laid out with: type lays out
-    /// again when fonts are added or rescanned.
+    /// The [`vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs`] `texts` was laid out with: type lays out again
+    /// when fonts are added or rescanned and when the hyphenation exceptions change.
     text_fonts: u64,
     /// Clip regions per clipping path (see [`Self::clip_of`]).
     clips: FrameCache<usize, ClipEntry>,
diff --git a/crates/render/src/live.rs b/crates/render/src/live.rs
index 4d41e16af8..3777c98948 100644
--- a/crates/render/src/live.rs
+++ b/crates/render/src/live.rs
@@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ struct Walked {
 }
 
 impl Walked {
-    /// The [`resources_key`] of the node walked: the walk's hash, the font generation when it found
-    /// type or a placed file, the plug-in revision and the hash of the document's swatch and pattern
+    /// The [`resources_key`] of the node walked: the walk's hash, the layout inputs (fonts and
+    /// hyphenation exceptions, [`vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs`]) when it found type or a placed
+    /// file, the plug-in revision and the hash of the document's swatch and pattern
     /// names (`names`) when it found a plug-in effect, and the color settings `cms`. Whether a
     /// plug-in paints its pieces depends on the plug-ins installed, so the names count for every
     /// plug-in effect.
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ impl Walked {
         let mut h = DefaultHasher::new();
         self.hash.hash(&mut h);
         if self.text {
-            vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation().hash(&mut h);
+            vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs().hash(&mut h);
         }
         if self.plugins {
             crate::effects::plugin_revision().hash(&mut h);
diff --git a/crates/render/src/pattern.rs b/crates/render/src/pattern.rs
index 2372abdbf2..317a423681 100644
--- a/crates/render/src/pattern.rs
+++ b/crates/render/src/pattern.rs
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ type TileKey = (String, u64, Ink, bool);
 
 /// What a tile was drawn from besides its pattern's own art, for art that shows more than itself:
 /// the art of every pattern and symbol and the pixels of every image in the document, the
-/// document's other data (which holds its brushes), and the fonts. Editing a symbol leaves the art
+/// document's other data (which holds its brushes), and the fonts and hyphenation exceptions
+/// ([`vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs`]). Editing a symbol leaves the art
 /// of a pattern that shows it as it was, so the art alone kept the tile from before (#1723). Held
 /// weakly: a weak reference keeps the allocation, so no other value gets one of these addresses
 /// while the tile is kept.
@@ -66,13 +67,13 @@ impl Deps {
             art: Self::art(doc).map(Arc::downgrade).collect(),
             pixels: Self::pixels(doc).map(Arc::downgrade).collect(),
             unknown: vectorcraft_doc::Shared::downgrade(&doc.unknown),
-            fonts: vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation(),
+            fonts: vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs(),
         }
     }
 
     /// Does `doc` hold what the tile was drawn from?
     fn current(&self, doc: &Document) -> bool {
-        self.fonts == vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation()
+        self.fonts == vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs()
             && std::ptr::eq(self.unknown.as_ptr(), &*doc.unknown)
             && self.art.iter().map(Weak::as_ptr).eq(Self::art(doc).map(Arc::as_ptr))
             && self.pixels.iter().map(Weak::as_ptr).eq(Self::pixels(doc).map(Arc::as_ptr))
diff --git a/crates/render/src/renderer/text.rs b/crates/render/src/renderer/text.rs
index b4a0dd0d2e..945ce5303b 100644
--- a/crates/render/src/renderer/text.rs
+++ b/crates/render/src/renderer/text.rs
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ impl Renderer {
     /// objects) hit for them. Other art is placed again in every frame, and so is art that holds
     /// symbol instances, type with inline graphics, images, placed documents or raster effects
     /// ([`depends_on_document`]), and art that the cache has no room for. Art that holds type is
-    /// placed again when the fonts change.
+    /// placed again when the fonts or the hyphenation exceptions change.
     pub(super) fn placed_art(&mut self, art: &Arc<Node>, xf: Affine, scale_strokes: bool, inst: Option<&Node>) -> (Arc<Node>, bool) {
         let kept_kind = matches!(art.kind, NodeKind::Group { .. } | NodeKind::Layer { .. }) || vectorcraft_doc::live::is_live(art);
         // An instance with appearance changes of its own isn't kept: the key doesn't tell them apart.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ impl Renderer {
         let key = (Arc::as_ptr(art) as usize, xf.as_coeffs().map(f64::to_bits), scale_strokes, stain);
         if let Some(e) = self.placed_arts.get(&key, self.stamp)
             && std::ptr::eq(e.art.as_ptr(), Arc::as_ptr(art))
-            && e.fonts.is_none_or(|g| g == vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation())
+            && e.fonts.is_none_or(|g| g == vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs())
             && e.slice.is_none()
         {
             return match &e.placed {
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ impl Renderer {
         if keeps
             && let Some(e) = self.placed_arts.get(&key, self.stamp)
             && std::ptr::eq(e.art.as_ptr(), Arc::as_ptr(art))
-            && e.fonts.is_none_or(|g| g == vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation())
+            && e.fonts.is_none_or(|g| g == vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs())
             && e.slice.as_ref() == Some(map)
         {
             match e.placed.clone() {
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ impl Renderer {
     fn keep_placed(&mut self, key: PlacedKey, art: &Arc<Node>, placed: &Arc<Node>, slice: Option<vectorcraft_doc::NineSliceMap>) -> bool {
         let kept = (!depends_on_document(art)).then(|| placed.clone());
         let keeps = kept.is_some();
-        let fonts = (keeps && holds_type(art)).then(|| vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation());
+        let fonts = (keeps && holds_type(art)).then(vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs);
         // The bytes count the key and the entry, the art's allocation that the weak reference
         // keeps, and the kept art.
         let bytes = size_of::<(PlacedKey, PlacedEntry, Node)>() + kept.as_deref().map_or(0, lru::node_bytes);
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ impl Renderer {
         if !matches!(&a.kind, NodeKind::Text(own) if std::ptr::eq(&**own, t)) {
             return (Arc::new(text_geom(t)), false);
         }
-        let fonts = vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation();
+        let fonts = vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs();
         if fonts != self.text_fonts {
             self.texts.clear();
             self.text_ids.clear();
diff --git a/crates/render/src/tests/fontchange.rs b/crates/render/src/tests/fontchange.rs
index bedffb6b4b..15389cd805 100644
--- a/crates/render/src/tests/fontchange.rs
+++ b/crates/render/src/tests/fontchange.rs
@@ -3,16 +3,16 @@
 
 use std::sync::{PoisonError, RwLock, RwLockReadGuard, RwLockWriteGuard};
 
-use vectorcraft_doc::text::{CharStyle, TextObject};
+use vectorcraft_doc::text::{CharStyle, TextKind, TextObject};
 use vectorcraft_doc::{Node, NodeKind};
-use vectorcraft_geom::Point;
+use vectorcraft_geom::{PathData, Point};
 
 use crate::*;
 
-/// Taken to add fonts, or to look up an installed one by name (`FontDb::face` loads it, which
-/// changes the fonts too). Renderers lay type out again when the fonts change, so tests of what
-/// they keep between frames hold it shared ([`fonts_steady`]) and the tests that change the fonts
-/// hold it alone ([`adding_fonts`]).
+/// Taken to add fonts, to look up an installed one by name (`FontDb::face` loads it, which
+/// changes the fonts too) or to change the hyphenation exceptions. Renderers lay type out again
+/// when the fonts or the exceptions change, so tests of what they keep between frames hold it
+/// shared ([`fonts_steady`]) and the tests that change them hold it alone ([`adding_fonts`]).
 static FONTS: RwLock<()> = RwLock::new(());
 
 /// No fonts are added by these tests until the guard is dropped.
@@ -29,14 +29,12 @@ pub(crate) fn adding_fonts() -> RwLockWriteGuard<'static, ()> {
 /// What `step` returns from a run in which the fonts stayed the same. The fonts can change while
 /// [`fonts_steady`] is held: the first lookup by family name catalogs the installed fonts, and
 /// resolving a cataloged family, or a character no loaded font has, loads a face. `step` runs up
-/// to 100 times, until [`vectorcraft_text::FontDb::generation`] is the same after a run as before
-/// it.
+/// to 100 times, until [`vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs`] is the same after a run as before it.
 pub(crate) fn with_fonts_unchanged<T>(mut step: impl FnMut() -> T) -> T {
-    let db = vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global();
     for _ in 0..100 {
-        let before = db.generation();
+        let before = vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs();
         let out = step();
-        if db.generation() == before {
+        if vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs() == before {
             return out;
         }
     }
@@ -466,6 +464,75 @@ fn enveloped_type_under_effects_redraws_when_its_font_becomes_available() {
     }
 }
 
+/// Hyphenated area type redraws with its new line breaks when Preferences › Hyphenation ›
+/// Exceptions change: its glyph geometry, the pixels of its raster effects, the art drawn for
+/// geometry effects, the art kept for a symbol instance and an envelope's evaluation are made
+/// again.
+#[test]
+fn hyphenated_type_redraws_when_the_exceptions_change() {
+    let _adding = adding_fonts();
+    struct Clear;
+    impl Drop for Clear {
+        fn drop(&mut self) {
+            vectorcraft_text::set_hyphenation_exceptions("");
+        }
+    }
+    let _clear = Clear;
+    use vectorcraft_doc::Effect;
+    let moved = || Effect { id: "distort.transform".into(), params: serde_json::json!({"moveH": 0.0}), visible: true };
+    const WORDS: &str = "Extraordinarily comprehensive typographical considerations notwithstanding everything.";
+    const NEVER: &str = "extraordinarily, comprehensive, typographical, considerations, notwithstanding";
+    let cases = ["the area type", "the type with a drop shadow", "the group with a Transform effect", "the symbol instance", "the envelope"];
+    for (i, what) in cases.into_iter().enumerate() {
+        vectorcraft_text::set_hyphenation_exceptions("");
+        let mut d = Document::new(300.0, 150.0);
+        let mut t = TextObject::point(Point::ZERO, WORDS, CharStyle { size: 14.0, ..Default::default() });
+        t.kind = TextKind::Area { frame: PathData::from_bezpath(&Rect::new(10.0, 10.0, 130.0, 145.0).to_path(0.1)) };
+        t.xf = Affine::IDENTITY;
+        t.para.hyphenate = true;
+        let mut object = Node::new(d.alloc_id(), NodeKind::Text(Box::new(t)));
+        match i {
+            0 => {}
+            1 => {
+                let params = serde_json::json!({"x": 4, "y": 4, "blur": 1, "opacity": 100});
+                object.appearance.effects.push(Effect { id: "stylize.dropShadow".into(), params, visible: true });
+            }
+            2 => {
+                object = Node::group(d.alloc_id(), vec![Arc::new(object)]);
+                object.appearance.effects.push(moved());
+            }
+            3 => {
+                object.appearance.effects.push(moved());
+                let art = Node::group(d.alloc_id(), vec![Arc::new(object)]);
+                d.symbols.push(vectorcraft_doc::Symbol { dynamic: false, name: "Words".into(), art: Arc::new(art) });
+                object = Node::new(d.alloc_id(), NodeKind::SymbolInstance { symbol: "Words".into(), xf: Affine::IDENTITY });
+            }
+            _ => {
+                let kind = vectorcraft_doc::EnvelopeKind::Warp { style: "arc".into(), bend: 30.0, h: 0.0, v: 0.0, horizontal: true, version: 0 };
+                let envelope = NodeKind::Envelope {
+                    content: vec![Arc::new(object)],
+                    kind: Box::new(kind),
+                    fidelity: 50.0,
+                    editing: false,
+                    options: Default::default(),
+                    frame: Box::new(Affine::IDENTITY),
+                };
+                object = Node::new(d.alloc_id(), envelope);
+            }
+        }
+        let l = d.layers[0].id;
+        d.insert(Some(l), 0, object).unwrap();
+        let opts = RenderOptions { background: Some([255, 255, 255, 255]), ..Default::default() };
+        let mut r = Renderer::new();
+        let before = r.render(&d, 300, 150, Affine::IDENTITY, &opts).pixels;
+        vectorcraft_text::set_hyphenation_exceptions(NEVER);
+        let after = r.render(&d, 300, 150, Affine::IDENTITY, &opts).pixels;
+        let fresh = Renderer::new().render(&d, 300, 150, Affine::IDENTITY, &opts).pixels;
+        assert_ne!(before, fresh, "{what}: the words in the list are not broken");
+        assert!(after == fresh, "{what}: drawn as a new renderer draws it");
+    }
+}
+
 /// Without an engine session, a renderer maps an envelope of type from its glyph outline bounds,
 /// and measures the type again when its font becomes available.
 #[test]
diff --git a/crates/render/src/tests/memory.rs b/crates/render/src/tests/memory.rs
index d286fa7e3c..1f7a49698c 100644
--- a/crates/render/src/tests/memory.rs
+++ b/crates/render/src/tests/memory.rs
@@ -320,13 +320,13 @@ fn kept_glyphs(r: &mut Renderer, d: &Document) -> Vec<Option<Arc<TextGeom>>> {
         .collect()
 }
 
-/// `f`'s result from a run during which the fonts did not change: other tests add fonts, and the
-/// renderer lays all type out again when the fonts change.
+/// `f`'s result from a run during which the fonts and the hyphenation exceptions did not change:
+/// other tests change them, and the renderer lays all type out again when they change.
 fn fonts_unchanged<T>(mut f: impl FnMut() -> T) -> T {
     loop {
-        let fonts = vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation();
+        let inputs = vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs();
         let t = f();
-        if vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation() == fonts {
+        if vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs() == inputs {
             return t;
         }
     }
diff --git a/crates/render/src/tests/typeedges.rs b/crates/render/src/tests/typeedges.rs
index fae0207d0d..3295342ce8 100644
--- a/crates/render/src/tests/typeedges.rs
+++ b/crates/render/src/tests/typeedges.rs
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ fn type_outside_its_frame_is_drawn() {
 fn a_pan_draws_the_type_from_the_kept_pixels() {
     let _fonts = crate::tests_fontchange::fonts_steady();
     let opts = RenderOptions::default();
-    let fonts = || vectorcraft_text::FontDb::global().generation();
+    let fonts = vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs;
     // How many type objects a renderer drew offscreen for `b` in `second` after drawing `a` in
     // `first`. The second frame's pixels are a new renderer's, each channel within `near`. The
     // frames are drawn again while the fonts change between them (other tests load fonts, and the
diff --git a/crates/text/src/hyphen.rs b/crates/text/src/hyphen.rs
index e293346279..c940ed85a4 100644
--- a/crates/text/src/hyphen.rs
+++ b/crates/text/src/hyphen.rs
@@ -502,16 +502,16 @@ mod tests {
     }
 
     /// Process-wide store used by `prefs.set` / restore. Each change makes envelopes measure type
-    /// again.
+    /// again, and caches of layouts lay type out again.
     #[test]
     fn set_hyphenation_exceptions_round_trips_the_source_string() {
-        let inputs = crate::layout::envelope_ink_inputs();
+        let inputs = crate::layout_inputs();
         set_hyphenation_exceptions("typography, hap-pen");
         assert_eq!(hyphenation_exceptions(), "typography, hap-pen");
-        let changed = crate::layout::envelope_ink_inputs();
-        assert_ne!(changed, inputs, "the envelope inputs change with the exceptions");
+        let changed = crate::layout_inputs();
+        assert_ne!(changed, inputs, "the layout inputs change with the exceptions");
         set_hyphenation_exceptions("");
         assert!(hyphenation_exceptions().is_empty());
-        assert_ne!(crate::layout::envelope_ink_inputs(), changed, "and again when they are cleared");
+        assert_ne!(crate::layout_inputs(), changed, "and again when they are cleared");
     }
 }
diff --git a/crates/text/src/layout.rs b/crates/text/src/layout.rs
index 82a849a3dc..a7d7d1d3f3 100644
--- a/crates/text/src/layout.rs
+++ b/crates/text/src/layout.rs
@@ -46,9 +46,7 @@ pub(crate) use driver::{fit_passes, layout_faces_per_call};
 pub(crate) use on_path::{layout_trying_each_start, path_arrangements};
 use vertical::{TcyStyle, stands_upright, tate_chu_yoko, upright_cell, upright_centre, upright_extent, whole_character_widths};
 
-#[cfg(test)]
-pub(crate) use driver::envelope_ink_inputs;
-pub use driver::{envelope_ink, register_envelope_ink};
+pub use driver::{envelope_ink, layout_inputs, register_envelope_ink};
 
 const EPS: f64 = 1e-6;
 
diff --git a/crates/text/src/layout/driver.rs b/crates/text/src/layout/driver.rs
index 9108cc171d..59c6ac38bf 100644
--- a/crates/text/src/layout/driver.rs
+++ b/crates/text/src/layout/driver.rs
@@ -191,12 +191,13 @@ pub fn envelope_ink(t: &TextObject, m: Affine, projection: Option<(vectorcraft_g
 /// Make envelopes map type from [`envelope_ink`], measured again when the fonts or the hyphenation
 /// exceptions change (the first registration stays, see `vectorcraft_doc::live::set_type_ink`).
 pub fn register_envelope_ink() {
-    vectorcraft_doc::live::set_type_ink(envelope_ink, envelope_ink_inputs);
+    vectorcraft_doc::live::set_type_ink(envelope_ink, layout_inputs);
 }
 
-/// A number that changes whenever what [`envelope_ink`] reads besides the type changes: the
-/// installed fonts and the hyphenation exceptions.
-pub(crate) fn envelope_ink_inputs() -> u64 {
+/// A number that changes when the fonts ([`FontDb::generation`]) or the hyphenation exceptions
+/// (Preferences › Hyphenation › Exceptions) change. Caches of layouts made with the global font
+/// database, and of art made from them, key on it.
+pub fn layout_inputs() -> u64 {
     FontDb::global().generation().rotate_left(32) ^ crate::hyphen::exceptions_generation()
 }
 
diff --git a/crates/text/src/lib.rs b/crates/text/src/lib.rs
index 2ff6b9ad5b..6ae85931ca 100644
--- a/crates/text/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/text/src/lib.rs
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ pub use fontdb::{
     user_font_dirs,
 };
 pub use hyphen::{hyphenation_exceptions, set_hyphenation_exceptions};
-pub use layout::{envelope_ink, register_envelope_ink};
+pub use layout::{envelope_ink, layout_inputs, register_envelope_ink};
 use std::sync::Arc;
 pub use svg_glyph::{SvgGlyphReader, set_svg_glyph_reader};
 
diff --git a/crates/tools/src/text.rs b/crates/tools/src/text.rs
index bd0c229ddf..763325f90e 100644
--- a/crates/tools/src/text.rs
+++ b/crates/tools/src/text.rs
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ fn text_hash(s: &str) -> u64 {
     h.finish()
 }
 
-/// The edited text's layout, keyed by the font database's generation and the text.
+/// The edited text's layout, keyed by [`vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs`] and the text.
 type CachedLayout = ((u64, TextObject), Arc<TextLayout>);
 
 /// Process-global Type-tool edit-session counter: the IME target's replacement epoch.
@@ -281,9 +281,9 @@ impl TypeTool {
     }
 
     /// Layout of `t`, cached by content (overlays run every frame) and by the fonts available (the
-    /// web build adds fonts after startup).
+    /// web build adds fonts after startup) and the hyphenation exceptions.
     fn layout(&self, t: &TextObject) -> Arc<TextLayout> {
-        let fonts = FontDb::global().generation();
+        let fonts = vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs();
         let mut c = self.cache.lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner());
         if let Some(((g, k), l)) = c.as_ref()
             && *g == fonts
diff --git a/crates/tools/src/text/ports.rs b/crates/tools/src/text/ports.rs
index 554a1cd611..6928fbe6f0 100644
--- a/crates/tools/src/text/ports.rs
+++ b/crates/tools/src/text/ports.rs
@@ -167,7 +167,8 @@ pub(crate) fn port_near(cx: &ToolContext, p: Point) -> Option<(NodeId, Port, f64
 }
 
 /// Which selected text overflows, for [`thread_ports`]: each text object's layout verdict kept
-/// with the object and the fonts it was made from, as overlays run every frame.
+/// with the object and the layout inputs it was made with (fonts and hyphenation exceptions,
+/// [`vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs`]), as overlays run every frame.
 #[derive(Default)]
 pub struct PortMarks {
     seen: std::collections::HashMap<NodeId, ((u64, TextObject), bool)>,
@@ -178,7 +179,7 @@ pub struct PortMarks {
 /// port whether text is hidden by the size of its frame, whatever tool is active. None when more
 /// than [`PORTS_MAX`] of them are selected.
 pub fn thread_ports(marks: &mut PortMarks, cx: &ToolContext) -> Vec<Overlay> {
-    let fonts = FontDb::global().generation();
+    let fonts = vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs();
     let mut o = Vec::new();
     let mut kept = std::collections::HashMap::new();
     if !ports_shown(cx.doc, &cx.selection.objects) {
diff --git a/crates/tools/src/text/tests.rs b/crates/tools/src/text/tests.rs
index a7f302db65..94063166bc 100644
--- a/crates/tools/src/text/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/tools/src/text/tests.rs
@@ -1538,6 +1538,36 @@ fn selected_type_shows_its_ports_in_each_state() {
     assert!(thread_ports(&mut marks, &cx(&d, &sel, &p)).is_empty(), "only selected type shows them");
 }
 
+/// The out port shows whether the text fits as the hyphenation exceptions lay it out now: when
+/// Preferences › Hyphenation › Exceptions change, the selected type is laid out again.
+#[test]
+fn the_out_port_follows_the_hyphenation_exceptions() {
+    struct Clear;
+    impl Drop for Clear {
+        fn drop(&mut self) {
+            vectorcraft_text::set_hyphenation_exceptions("");
+        }
+    }
+    let _clear = Clear;
+    const WORDS: &str = "Extraordinarily comprehensive typographical considerations notwithstanding everything.";
+    const NEVER: &str = "extraordinarily, comprehensive, typographical, considerations, notwithstanding";
+    let (mut d, id) = crate::testutil::doc_with_area_type();
+    // A 70 by 170 pt frame holds the hyphenated text, and the text without those breaks overflows
+    // it.
+    let Some(NodeKind::Text(t)) = d.node_mut(id).map(|n| &mut n.kind) else { panic!("not text") };
+    t.runs = vec![TextRun::new(WORDS, CharStyle { size: 14.0, ..Default::default() })];
+    t.para.hyphenate = true;
+    t.kind = TextKind::Area { frame: vectorcraft_geom::PathData::from_bezpath(&Rect::new(0.0, 0.0, 70.0, 170.0).to_path(0.1)) };
+    let (mut sel, p) = (Selection::default(), paint());
+    sel.set([id]);
+    let mut marks = PortMarks::default();
+    let red = |ov: &[Overlay]| ov.iter().filter(|o| matches!(o, Overlay::Path { color: [230, 30, 30], .. })).count();
+    vectorcraft_text::set_hyphenation_exceptions("");
+    assert_eq!(red(&thread_ports(&mut marks, &cx(&d, &sel, &p))), 0, "the hyphenated text fits");
+    vectorcraft_text::set_hyphenation_exceptions(NEVER);
+    assert_eq!(red(&thread_ports(&mut marks, &cx(&d, &sel, &p))), 1, "the text without those breaks does not");
+}
+
 /// Past [`PORTS_MAX`] selected frames (select all of an opened PDF) no ports are drawn or clicked:
 /// they would bury the canvas in boxes; up to it every frame has its two.
 #[test]
diff --git a/crates/tools/src/touchtype.rs b/crates/tools/src/touchtype.rs
index 172487c197..018a65aefc 100644
--- a/crates/tools/src/touchtype.rs
+++ b/crates/tools/src/touchtype.rs
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ struct Drag {
     began: bool,
 }
 
-/// The type object's layout, keyed by the font database's generation and the object.
+/// The type object's layout, keyed by [`vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs`] and the object.
 type CachedLayout = ((u64, TextObject), Arc<TextLayout>);
 
 #[derive(Default)]
@@ -196,9 +196,10 @@ fn char_box(t: &TextObject, lay: &TextLayout, gi: usize) -> Option<CharBox> {
 }
 
 impl TouchTypeTool {
-    /// Layout of `t`, cached by content (overlays run every frame) and by the fonts available.
+    /// Layout of `t`, cached by content (overlays run every frame), by the fonts available and by
+    /// the hyphenation exceptions.
     fn layout(&self, t: &TextObject) -> Arc<TextLayout> {
-        let fonts = FontDb::global().generation();
+        let fonts = vectorcraft_text::layout_inputs();
         let mut c = self.cache.lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner());
         if let Some(((g, k), l)) = c.as_ref()
             && *g == fonts