diff --git a/packages/core/src/discovery.js b/packages/core/src/discovery.js
index ba15c00b6..5a63c8011 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/discovery.js
+++ b/packages/core/src/discovery.js
@@ -230,12 +230,14 @@ function processSnapshotResources({ domSnapshot, resources, ...snapshot }) {
     const kept = [];
     for (let index = 0; index < resources.length; index++) {
       const resource = resources[index];
+      // Never compress in place: these objects are shared with the resource
+      // cache, which must keep replaying the original bytes to the browser.
+      let uploaded = resource;
       try {
-        const alreadyZipped = isGzipped(resource.content);
-        /* istanbul ignore next: very hard to mock true */
-        if (!alreadyZipped) {
-          resource.content = Pako.gzip(resource.content);
-          resource.sha = sha256hash(resource.content);
+        /* istanbul ignore else: an already-gzipped resource is very hard to mock */
+        if (!isGzipped(resource.content)) {
+          const content = Pako.gzip(resource.content);
+          uploaded = { ...resource, content, sha: sha256hash(content) };
           log.debug(`- Gzipped resource: ${resource.url}`);
         }
       } catch (error) {
@@ -247,9 +249,8 @@ function processSnapshotResources({ domSnapshot, resources, ...snapshot }) {
         continue;
       }
 
-      // resource.content is guaranteed by the try block above (either just
-      // assigned from Pako.gzip, or alreadyZipped was true).
-      const size = resource.content.length;
+      // Either the gzipped copy or, when already gzipped, the resource itself.
+      const size = uploaded.content.length;
       // Root (DOM HTML) and log resources are required for a valid snapshot;
       // shipping an oversized one and letting the API surface a clear error
       // is better than silently dropping it here.
@@ -263,7 +264,7 @@ function processSnapshotResources({ domSnapshot, resources, ...snapshot }) {
         );
         continue;
       }
-      kept.push(resource);
+      kept.push(uploaded);
     }
     resources = kept;
   }
diff --git a/packages/core/test/discovery.test.js b/packages/core/test/discovery.test.js
index d9008c842..fd6ba579d 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/discovery.test.js
+++ b/packages/core/test/discovery.test.js
@@ -839,6 +839,33 @@ describe('Discovery', () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it('keeps cached resources uncompressed when PERCY_GZIP is enabled', async () => {
+    // A cached stylesheet compressed in place is replayed as gzip bytes under its
+    // original text/css type, so the browser never parses it or its @font-face.
+    process.env.PERCY_GZIP = true;
+
+    server.reply('/style.css', () => [200, 'text/css', [
+      '@font-face { font-family: "test"; src: url("/font.woff") format("woff"); }',
+      'body { font-family: "test", "sans-serif"; }'
+    ].join('')]);
+
+    await percy.snapshot({ name: 'one', url: 'http://localhost:8000', domSnapshot: testDOM });
+    await percy.snapshot({ name: 'two', url: 'http://localhost:8000', domSnapshot: testDOM });
+
+    await percy.idle();
+
+    let font = jasmine.objectContaining({
+      id: sha256hash(Pako.gzip('<font>')),
+      attributes: jasmine.objectContaining({
+        'resource-url': 'http://localhost:8000/font.woff'
+      })
+    });
+
+    expect(captured[0]).toEqual(jasmine.arrayContaining([font]));
+    // snapshot two's stylesheet comes from the cache and must still be parseable
+    expect(captured[1]).toEqual(jasmine.arrayContaining([font]));
+  });
+
   it('captures resource larger than 25MB raw when PERCY_GZIP is enabled', async () => {
     process.env.PERCY_GZIP = true;
     const largeCSS = 'A'.repeat(30_000_000);