diff --git a/packages/angular/build/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts.ts b/packages/angular/build/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts.ts
index 52181200c885..387eb479cd60 100644
--- a/packages/angular/build/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts.ts
+++ b/packages/angular/build/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  */
 
 import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
-import { readFile, rm, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { mkdir, readFile, rm, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
 import { type Agent, get as httpsGet } from 'node:https';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
 import { NormalizedCachedOptions } from '../normalize-cache';
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ export class InlineFontsProcessor {
         if (data.length > CONTENT_HASH_LENGTH) {
           const storedHash = data.slice(0, CONTENT_HASH_LENGTH);
           const content = data.slice(CONTENT_HASH_LENGTH);
-          const contentHash = createHash(CONTENT_HASH_ALGORITHM).update(content).digest('base64');
+          const contentHash = createHash(CONTENT_HASH_ALGORITHM).update(content).digest('hex');
           if (storedHash === contentHash) {
             // Return valid content
             return content;
@@ -253,8 +253,9 @@ export class InlineFontsProcessor {
       );
     });
 
-    if (cacheFile) {
+    if (cacheFile && this.cachePath) {
       try {
+        await mkdir(this.cachePath, { recursive: true });
         const dataHash = createHash(CONTENT_HASH_ALGORITHM).update(data).digest('hex');
         await writeFile(cacheFile, dataHash + data);
       } catch {}
diff --git a/packages/angular/build/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts_spec.ts b/packages/angular/build/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts_spec.ts
index 46511f853ecf..b2dea06b570a 100644
--- a/packages/angular/build/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/angular/build/src/utils/index-file/inline-fonts_spec.ts
@@ -6,9 +6,101 @@
  * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.dev/license
  */
 
+import assert from 'node:assert';
+import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
+import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
+import { existsSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { mkdir, mkdtemp, readFile, readdir, rm, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import type { ClientRequest, IncomingMessage } from 'node:http';
+import https from 'node:https';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { Readable } from 'node:stream';
 import { InlineFontsProcessor } from './inline-fonts';
 
 describe('InlineFontsProcessor', () => {
+  describe('disk cache', () => {
+    const url = 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto';
+    const content = '@font-face { font-family: Roboto; src: url(roboto.woff2); }';
+    let tempRoot: string;
+    let cache: { enabled: boolean; path: string; basePath: string };
+    let cacheDirectory: string;
+    let cacheFile: string;
+    let getSpy: jasmine.Spy<typeof https.get>;
+
+    beforeEach(async () => {
+      const baseTmpDir = process.env['TEST_TMPDIR'];
+      assert(baseTmpDir, 'TEST_TMPDIR is not set');
+      tempRoot = await mkdtemp(join(baseTmpDir, 'angular-cli-font-cache-test-'));
+      cache = { enabled: true, path: join(tempRoot, 'cache'), basePath: tempRoot };
+      cacheDirectory = join(cache.path, 'angular-build-fonts');
+      cacheFile = join(cacheDirectory, createHash('sha256').update(url).digest('hex'));
+
+      getSpy = spyOn(https, 'get').and.callFake((...args: unknown[]) => {
+        const callback = args.at(-1);
+        assert(typeof callback === 'function');
+        const response = Readable.from([content]) as IncomingMessage;
+        response.statusCode = 200;
+        callback(response);
+
+        return new EventEmitter() as ClientRequest;
+      });
+    });
+
+    afterEach(async () => {
+      if (tempRoot) {
+        await rm(tempRoot, { recursive: true, force: true });
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('should create the cache directory and save the stylesheet', async () => {
+      const processor = new InlineFontsProcessor({ cache });
+
+      expect(await processor.processURL(url)).toBe(content);
+      expect(await readdir(cacheDirectory)).toHaveSize(1);
+      expect(await readFile(cacheFile, 'utf8')).toBe(
+        createHash('sha256').update(content).digest('hex') + content,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('should reuse the stylesheet across processor instances without another request', async () => {
+      await mkdir(cacheDirectory, { recursive: true });
+      expect(await new InlineFontsProcessor({ cache }).processURL(url)).toBe(content);
+      getSpy.calls.reset();
+      getSpy.and.throwError('Unexpected font request');
+
+      expect(await new InlineFontsProcessor({ cache }).processURL(url)).toBe(content);
+      expect(getSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(existsSync(cacheFile)).toBeTrue();
+    });
+
+    it('should replace corrupted cache content with a downloaded stylesheet', async () => {
+      await mkdir(cacheDirectory, { recursive: true });
+      await writeFile(cacheFile, '0'.repeat(64) + content);
+
+      expect(await new InlineFontsProcessor({ cache }).processURL(url)).toBe(content);
+      expect(getSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      expect(await readFile(cacheFile, 'utf8')).toBe(
+        createHash('sha256').update(content).digest('hex') + content,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('should not cache stylesheets when the cache is disabled', async () => {
+      const processor = new InlineFontsProcessor({ cache: { ...cache, enabled: false } });
+
+      expect(await processor.processURL(url)).toBe(content);
+      expect(await processor.processURL(url)).toBe(content);
+      expect(getSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+      expect(existsSync(cache.path)).toBeFalse();
+    });
+
+    it('should still return the stylesheet when the cache cannot be written', async () => {
+      await writeFile(cache.path, 'not a directory');
+
+      expect(await new InlineFontsProcessor({ cache }).processURL(url)).toBe(content);
+      expect(getSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('Google fonts', () => {
     const content = `
   <html>