diff --git a/index.mjs b/index.mjs
index a6247c4..5ba1eda 100644
--- a/index.mjs
+++ b/index.mjs
@@ -17,13 +17,22 @@
 import { Font } from "./src/lib-font/lib-font-wrapper.mjs";
 import Fondue from "./src/fondue/Fondue.mjs";
 
-export function fromPath(fontPath) {
+export async function fromPath(fontPath) {
+	const { readFile } = await import("node:fs/promises");
+
 	return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
 		const font = new Font(fontPath);
 		font.onload = () => resolve(new Fondue(font));
 		font.onerror = (e) => reject(e.detail.message);
 
-		font.src = fontPath;
+		(async () => {
+			try {
+				const file = await readFile(fontPath);
+				font.fromDataBuffer(file.buffer, fontPath).catch(reject);
+			} catch (e) {
+				reject(e);
+			}
+		})();
 	});
 }
 
diff --git a/test/Fondue.test.mjs b/test/Fondue.test.mjs
index 762518d..e83e7ca 100644
--- a/test/Fondue.test.mjs
+++ b/test/Fondue.test.mjs
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ describe("The loaded font", () => {
 
 	test("throws an error when it doesn't exist.", async () => {
 		await expect(() => fromPath("./fonts/foo.ttf")).rejects.toEqual(
-			"ENOENT: no such file or directory, open './fonts/foo.ttf'",
+			new Error(
+				"ENOENT: no such file or directory, open './fonts/foo.ttf'",
+			),
 		);
 	});
 
diff --git a/test/support/no-experimental-fetch.mjs b/test/support/no-experimental-fetch.mjs
deleted file mode 100644
index 7527d25..0000000
--- a/test/support/no-experimental-fetch.mjs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-// Alternative for `node --no-experimental-fetch`.
-// The goal is to let the unit tests use the `fetch` shim function from `lib-font`,
-// instead of the experimental `fetch` API that is now available in new Node.js versions.
-// This is meant as a temporary workaround.
-//
-// See:
-// https://github.com/Pomax/lib-font/blob/ebb3706649e9accfc8ac8df8d239dac3c167cd99/src/utils/shim-fetch.js#L6-L8
-// https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v22.x/api/cli.html#--no-experimental-fetch
-delete globalThis.fetch;
diff --git a/vitest.config.mjs b/vitest.config.mjs
deleted file mode 100644
index 67844bb..0000000
--- a/vitest.config.mjs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-import { defineConfig } from "vite";
-
-export default defineConfig({
-	test: {
-		setupFiles: ["./test/support/no-experimental-fetch.mjs"],
-	},
-});