diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index cc11784..f6c88d1 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "lib/stb"]
 	path = lib/stb
 	url = https://github.com/nothings/stb.git
+[submodule "lib/freetype"]
+	path = lib/freetype
+	url = https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype.git
diff --git a/lib/freetype b/lib/freetype
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..1ecfd21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/freetype
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 1ecfd2199012edb403605c7f68618a761eaf1193