diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/designspaceLib/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/designspaceLib/__init__.py
index 69d4912c0..c5d31cdc4 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/designspaceLib/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/designspaceLib/__init__.py
@@ -3279,3 +3279,23 @@ class DesignSpaceDocument(LogMixin, AsDictMixin):
         finally:
             for source, font in zip(self.sources, fonts):
                 source.font = font
+
+
+def main(args=None):
+    """Roundtrip .designspace file through the DesignSpaceDocument class"""
+
+    if args is None:
+        import sys
+
+        args = sys.argv[1:]
+
+    from argparse import ArgumentParser
+
+    parser = ArgumentParser(prog="designspaceLib", description=main.__doc__)
+    parser.add_argument("input")
+    parser.add_argument("output")
+
+    options = parser.parse_args(args)
+
+    ds = DesignSpaceDocument.fromfile(options.input)
+    ds.write(options.output)
diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/designspaceLib/__main__.py b/Lib/fontTools/designspaceLib/__main__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8f5e44ea9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/designspaceLib/__main__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import sys
+from fontTools.designspaceLib import main
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/subset/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/subset/__init__.py
index 9b1758435..250a07ef1 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/subset/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/subset/__init__.py
@@ -3733,6 +3733,3 @@ __all__ = [
     "parse_unicodes",
     "main",
 ]
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    sys.exit(main())