diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1.6.0.2 (21 August 2017)
+------------------------
+
+- Bug fix: don't print blank line to stdout when there are no errors. (#23)
+  Thanks to Tim Docker for the fix.
+
 1.6.0.1 (27 October 2016)
 -------------------------
 
diff --git a/SVGFonts.cabal b/SVGFonts.cabal
--- a/SVGFonts.cabal
+++ b/SVGFonts.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:             SVGFonts
-Version:          1.6.0.1
+Version:          1.6.0.2
 Synopsis:         Fonts from the SVG-Font format
 Description:      Native font support for the diagrams framework (<http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/>). Note that this package can be used with any diagrams backend, not just the SVG backend.  The SVG-font format is easy to parse
                   and was therefore chosen for a font library completely written in Haskell.
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 Author:           Tillmann Vogt
 Maintainer:       diagrams-discuss@googlegroups.com
 build-type:       Simple
-Cabal-Version:    >=1.10
+Cabal-Version:    >=1.18
 
 data-files:       fonts/*.svg
 extra-source-files: CHANGES.md, README.md, diagrams/*.svg
diff --git a/src/Graphics/SVGFonts/ReadFont.hs b/src/Graphics/SVGFonts/ReadFont.hs
--- a/src/Graphics/SVGFonts/ReadFont.hs
+++ b/src/Graphics/SVGFonts/ReadFont.hs
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
        , loadFont'
        ) where
 
+import           Control.Monad                   (when)
 import           Data.Char                       (isSpace)
 import           Data.List                       (intersect, sortBy)
 import           Data.List.Split                 (splitOn, splitWhen)
@@ -340,7 +341,7 @@
   let
     basename = last $ init $ concat (map (splitOn "/") (splitOn "." filename))
     (errors, font) = loadFont' basename s
-  putStrLn errors
+  when (errors /= "") (putStrLn errors)
   return font
 
 -- | Read font data from an XmlSource, and compute its outline map.