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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ To build the binary font files from source, you need Python 3 along with the
 [FontTools](https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools) packages, which you can install with
 
 ```sh
-pip3 install afdko fonttools
+pip3 install afdko
 ```
 
 ### Building one font