diff --git a/exercises/requirements.txt b/exercises/requirements.txt
index 09a0cd9..7b1f472 100644
--- a/exercises/requirements.txt
+++ b/exercises/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ easygui==0.98.3
 Faker==26.0.0
 fastapi==0.109.1
 Flask==2.2.5
-fonttools==4.53.1
+fonttools==4.61.0
 idna==3.7
 itsdangerous==2.2.0
 Jinja2==3.1.4
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index eebb4dd..6702954 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ fastapi==0.109.1
 filelock==3.15.4
 fitz==0.0.1.dev2
 Flask==2.2.5
-fonttools==4.53.1
+fonttools==4.61.0
 frontend==0.0.3
 h11==0.14.0
 httplib2==0.22.0