diff --git a/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt b/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt
index d7881195a..8372082a7 100644
--- a/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt
+++ b/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ multiprocessing.pool.Pool.Process
 multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool.Process
 multiprocessing.synchronize.Semaphore.get_value
 tkinter.Misc.config
-tkinter.font.Font.counter
 
 
 # ==========
diff --git a/stdlib/tkinter/__init__.pyi b/stdlib/tkinter/__init__.pyi
index 42abbd432..d6a234d67 100644
--- a/stdlib/tkinter/__init__.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/tkinter/__init__.pyi
@@ -627,7 +627,8 @@ class Misc:
     def __getitem__(self, key: str) -> Any: ...
     def cget(self, key: str) -> Any: ...
     def configure(self, cnf: Any = None) -> Any: ...
-    # TODO: config is an alias of configure, but adding that here creates lots of mypy errors
+    # TODO: config is an alias of configure, but adding that here creates
+    # conflict with the type of config in the subclasses. See #13149
 
 class CallWrapper:
     func: Incomplete
diff --git a/stdlib/tkinter/font.pyi b/stdlib/tkinter/font.pyi
index 317f3068b..097c2e4b4 100644
--- a/stdlib/tkinter/font.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/tkinter/font.pyi
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import _tkinter
+import itertools
 import sys
 import tkinter
-from typing import Any, Final, Literal, TypedDict, overload
+from typing import Any, ClassVar, Final, Literal, TypedDict, overload
 from typing_extensions import TypeAlias
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 9):
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ class _MetricsDict(TypedDict):
 class Font:
     name: str
     delete_font: bool
+    counter: ClassVar[itertools.count[int]]  # undocumented
     def __init__(
         self,
         # In tkinter, 'root' refers to tkinter.Tk by convention, but the code