diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a60f028d3..0c3db156b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -46,9 +46,11 @@ elseif(APPLE)
   FIND_LIBRARY(OpenGL_LIBRARY OpenGL)
   FIND_LIBRARY(IOKit_LIBRARY IOKit)
   FIND_LIBRARY(CoreVideo_LIBRARY CoreVideo)
+  find_package(Freetype REQUIRED)
+  message(STATUS "Found Freetype in ${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR}")
   MARK_AS_ADVANCED(COCOA_LIBRARY OpenGL_LIBRARY)
   SET(APPLE_LIBS ${COCOA_LIBRARY} ${IOKit_LIBRARY} ${OpenGL_LIBRARY} ${CoreVideo_LIBRARY})
-  SET(APPLE_LIBS ${APPLE_LIBS} ${GLFW3_LIBRARY} ${ASSIMP_LIBRARY})
+  SET(APPLE_LIBS ${APPLE_LIBS} ${GLFW3_LIBRARY} ${ASSIMP_LIBRARY} ${FREETYPE_LIBRARIES})
   set(LIBS ${LIBS} ${APPLE_LIBS})
 else()
   set(LIBS )
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a69b78ed6..4c4663dc2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Using [this project](https://github.com/01e9/docker-ide) you can start IDE in do
 ## Mac OS X building
 Building on Mac OS X is fairly simple (thanks [@hyperknot](https://github.com/hyperknot)):
 ```
-brew install cmake assimp glm glfw
+brew install cmake assimp glm glfw freetype
 mkdir build
 cd build
 cmake ../.