Can't use bitmap font in GUI apps

I like the look of bitmap fonts and I used to be able to use them in GUI apps such as GTK apps.
For the last few months whenever I try to start GUI app with a bitmap font selected the application crashes. Always with the same error message about cairo-scaled-font.
For example, here is my terminal output when I try to start dwb using the bitmap font Lemon as my default font:
dwb: cairo-scaled-font.c:459: _cairo_scaled_glyph_page_destroy: Assertion '!scaled_font->cache_frozen' failed.
This problem is not limited to just dwb but any GUI app when I try to use any bitmap font.
I've tried googling the problem and the only advice I could find was to run fc-cache -fv, which didn't fix the issue.
Any help would be appreciated.

I normally use BSPWM as my window manager, and I have just discovered that If I try to start dwb in Gnome it actually works!
This isn't really a solution for me because I spend most of my time in BSPWM, but it's interesting.

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