diff --git a/src/hb-subset-input.cc b/src/hb-subset-input.cc
index f89eeef99..b874949df 100644
--- a/src/hb-subset-input.cc
+++ b/src/hb-subset-input.cc
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ hb_subset_input_override_name_table (hb_subset_input_t  *input,
         src = hb_utf8_t::next (src, src_end, &unicode, replacement);
         if (unicode >= 0x0080u)
         {
-          printf ("Non-ascii character detected, ignored...This API supports acsii characters only for mac platform\n");
+          printf ("Non-ascii character detected, ignored...This API supports ascii characters only for mac platform\n");
           return false;
         }
       }