diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b34d590e3..d061b7794 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ skia-pathops==0.7.2; platform_python_implementation != "PyPy"
 # this is only required to run Tests/cu2qu/{ufo,cli}_test.py
 ufoLib2==0.13.0
 pyobjc==8.1; sys_platform == "darwin"
+freetype-py==2.2.0