Broken fonts

The question is slightly unusual: how do I break a font? You see, I don't like to have text on my desktop, I like the icons to be displayed without the annoying text underneath. In the past I've solved this by setting the desktop font to a broken font that wouldn't display. But in 8.2, all my fonts work :( So can anyone tell me where I might find a broken font? I'm not too hot with the fontconfig stuff, perhaps there's something I can put in the config for that to make the system think it has a font that doesn't exist, or that doesn't have any characters? Any ideas?