diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 28a1e64462..f7a8a896b8 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1058,3 +1058,4 @@ libmusicbrainz5.so.0 libmusicbrainz5-5.0.1_1
 librygel-core-1.0.so.0 librygel-0.16.0_1
 librygel-renderer-1.0.so.0 librygel-0.16.0_1
 librygel-server-1.0.so.0 librygel-0.16.0_1
+libharfbuzz.so.0 libharfbuzz-0.9.4_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/harfbuzz-devel b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..88dda038d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+harfbuzz
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-devel.template b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b9d6787a4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Template file for 'pango-devel'.
+#
+noarch=yes
+depends="libharfbuzz>=${version}"
+short_desc="${sourcepkg} (development files)"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f903123c0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+libharfbuzz.so.0
+libglib-2.0.so.0
+libcairo.so.2
+libstdc++.so.6
+libm.so.6
+libc.so.6
diff --git a/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/libharfbuzz.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/libharfbuzz.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e4cb89bd80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/libharfbuzz.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+libgobject-2.0.so.0
+libglib-2.0.so.0
+libfreetype.so.6
+libicule.so.49
+libicuuc.so.49
+libicudata.so.49
+libc.so.6
diff --git a/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/libharfbuzz.template b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/libharfbuzz.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ad7f093d2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/libharfbuzz.template
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Template file for 'libharfbuzz'.
+#
+short_desc="${sourcepkg} -- runtime library" 
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains the runtime library."
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove "usr/lib/*.so*" usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/template b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4fec290ff2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/harfbuzz/template
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Template build file for 'harfbuzz'.
+pkgname=harfbuzz
+version=0.9.4
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+# XXX graphite2 support
+makedepends="pkg-config glib-devel icu-devel"
+subpackages="lib${pkgname} ${pkgname}-devel"
+short_desc="OpenType text shaping engine"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+homepage="http://www.pango.org/"
+license="LGPL-2.1"
+distfiles="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
+checksum=2572f9a810d17a735ef565115463827d075af2371ee5b68e6d77231381f4bddc
+long_desc="
+ HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine."
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libharfbuzz b/srcpkgs/libharfbuzz
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..88dda038d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libharfbuzz
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+harfbuzz
\ No newline at end of file