diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 28095252a..1945c3332 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/cglm"]
 	path = vendor/cglm
 	url = https://github.com/recp/cglm.git
+[submodule "vendor/freetype-gl"]
+	path = vendor/freetype-gl
+	url = https://github.com/rougier/freetype-gl
diff --git a/vendor/freetype-gl b/vendor/freetype-gl
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..85d785074
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/freetype-gl
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 85d7850744465ac1dcd00b202787d72a4a3a1f5d