diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index c8007c10d..b7969271e 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/stb"]
 	path = vendor/stb
 	url = https://github.com/nothings/stb.git
+[submodule "vendor/freetype"]
+	path = vendor/freetype
+	url = https://github.com/freetype/freetype.git
diff --git a/vendor/freetype b/vendor/freetype
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..aee6b9472
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/freetype
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit aee6b9472732c627ff844d4fb75a588d388b6570