diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0932f9efc..87e21c9ef 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -25,3 +25,6 @@
 [submodule "project/lib/jpeg"]
 	path = project/lib/jpeg
 	url = https://github.com/native-toolkit/jpeg
+[submodule "project/lib/freetype"]
+	path = project/lib/freetype
+	url = https://github.com/MattTuttle/freetype
diff --git a/project/lib/freetype b/project/lib/freetype
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..3ce727ee6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/project/lib/freetype
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 3ce727ee611fd2af6be6af37585fd08c914e1af5