diff --git a/Ports/AvailablePorts.md b/Ports/AvailablePorts.md
index 92720f5aea5..c67a0269d80 100644
--- a/Ports/AvailablePorts.md
+++ b/Ports/AvailablePorts.md
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Please make sure to keep this list up to date when adding and updating ports. :^
 | [`ffmpeg`](ffmpeg/)                    | ffmpeg                                                          | 5.0                      | https://ffmpeg.org                                                             |
 | [`freeciv`](freeciv/)                  | Freeciv                                                         | 3.0.0-beta2              | http://freeciv.org/                                                            |
 | [`freedink`](freedink/)                | FreeDink                                                        | 109.6                    | https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/                                         |
-| [`freetype`](freetype/)                | FreeType                                                        | 2.10.4                   | https://www.freetype.org/                                                      |
+| [`freetype`](freetype/)                | FreeType                                                        | 2.12.0                   | https://www.freetype.org/                                                      |
 | [`frotz`](frotz/)                      | Frotz                                                           | 2.53                     | https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz                                         |
 | [`gawk`](gawk/)                        | GNU awk                                                         | 5.1.0                    | https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/                                             |
 | [`gdb`](gdb/)                          | GNU Project Debugger                                            | 11.2                     | https://sourceware.org/gdb                                                     |
diff --git a/Ports/freetype/package.sh b/Ports/freetype/package.sh
index afaecb3bd5f..8852d857918 100755
--- a/Ports/freetype/package.sh
+++ b/Ports/freetype/package.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env -S bash ../.port_include.sh
 port=freetype
-version=2.10.4
+version=2.12.0
 useconfigure=true
 use_fresh_config_sub=true
 config_sub_path=builds/unix/config.sub
-files="https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-${version}.tar.gz freetype-${version}.tar.gz 5eab795ebb23ac77001cfb68b7d4d50b5d6c7469247b0b01b2c953269f658dac"
+files="https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-${version}.tar.gz freetype-${version}.tar.gz 7940a46eeb0255baaa87c553d72778c4f8daa2b8888c8e2a05766a2a8686740c"
 auth_type=sha256
 configopts=("--with-brotli=no" "--with-bzip2=no" "--with-zlib=no" "--with-harfbuzz=no" "--with-png=no")
 config_sub_path="builds/unix/config.sub"