diff --git a/packages/create-next-app/templates/index.ts b/packages/create-next-app/templates/index.ts
index c4976b2f1bde5..c3ebc78d30ffd 100644
--- a/packages/create-next-app/templates/index.ts
+++ b/packages/create-next-app/templates/index.ts
@@ -97,7 +97,16 @@ export const installTemplate = async ({
       stats: false,
       // We don't want to modify compiler options in [ts/js]config.json
       // and none of the files in the .git folder
-      ignore: ["tsconfig.json", "jsconfig.json", ".git/**/*"],
+      // TODO: Refactor this to be an allowlist, rather than a denylist,
+      // to avoid corrupting files that weren't intended to be replaced
+
+      ignore: [
+        "tsconfig.json",
+        "jsconfig.json",
+        ".git/**/*",
+        "**/fonts/**",
+        "**/favicon.ico",
+      ],
     });
     const writeSema = new Sema(8, { capacity: files.length });
     await Promise.all(