diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 9e315f51c7e..683f592f5d7 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1780,12 +1780,12 @@ liblucene++-contrib.so.0 Lucene++-3.0.6_1
 libeolian.so.1 efl-1.11.2_2
 libecore_avahi.so.1 efl-1.11.2_2
 libephysics.so.1 efl-1.11.2_2
-libgunicode.so.4 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
-libgutils.so.2 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
+libgunicode.so.5 fontforge-2.0.20190317_1
+libgutils.so.3 fontforge-2.0.20190317_1
 libgioftp.so.2 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
-libfontforge.so.2 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
-libgdraw.so.5 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
-libfontforgeexe.so.2 fontforge-2.0.20140101_3
+libfontforge.so.3 fontforge-2.0.20190317_1
+libgdraw.so.6 fontforge-2.0.20190317_1
+libfontforgeexe.so.3 fontforge-2.0.20190317_1
 libwraster.so.6 WindowMaker-0.95.8_1
 libWUtil.so.5 WindowMaker-0.95.6_3
 libWINGs.so.3 WindowMaker-0.95.6_3
diff --git a/srcpkgs/fontforge/template b/srcpkgs/fontforge/template
index b2dc1b70bc9..4e323b36f0c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/fontforge/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/fontforge/template
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Template file for 'fontforge'
 pkgname=fontforge
-version=20170731
-revision=5
+version=20190317
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
-hostmakedepends="automake libtool libltdl-devel pkg-config git python
- ca-certificates"
+hostmakedepends="automake ca-certificates git libltdl-devel libtool m4
+ pkg-config python"
 makedepends="libltdl-devel python-devel zlib-devel pango-devel readline-devel
  giflib-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel tiff-devel libxml2-devel
  libspiro-devel hicolor-icon-theme desktop-file-utils"
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 homepage="http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/archive/${version}.tar.gz
  http://fontforge.github.io/cidmaps.tgz"
-checksum="89203db05658e79418104fb6442b3feffb20762198c2d8b0343db49a07769302
+checksum="0f2dd80ea99f9ba432ceba94fe81227e23b9c1489a17dce6fde98458b4d529d5
  1bf9c7eb8835e6ed94e62cb49f1141bc046c562849e52e6c3c7f1d7cfc95c7b3"
 
 pre_configure() {
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ pre_build() {
 post_install() {
 	vcopy ../Adobe-* usr/share/fontforge
 	vmkdir usr/share/icons/hicolor
-	vcopy "desktop/icons/*x*" usr/share/icons/hicolor
-	vcopy desktop/icons/scalable usr/share/icons/hicolor
-	vinstall desktop/fontforge.desktop 644 usr/share/applications
+	vcopy "desktop/tango/*x*" usr/share/icons/hicolor
+	vcopy desktop/tango/scalable usr/share/icons/hicolor
+	vinstall desktop/org.fontforge.FontForge.desktop 644 usr/share/applications
 	vinstall desktop/fontforge.xml 644 /usr/share/mime/packages
 }