diff --git a/dev-python/ufoLib2/Manifest b/dev-python/ufoLib2/Manifest
index c616bdb372..85edda690a 100644
--- a/dev-python/ufoLib2/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/ufoLib2/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST ufoLib2-0.7.1.zip 82128 BLAKE2B 833ec522edb52c54926d9578507b4afe0c3eda313f663fa1655f836369b23a2d11a1a947d9b8079aad711f0dac9754d902c90811cf42affe5ba6685edd4acc69 SHA512 e0ddd496ced3234d9c5ee77af4205a1e5df031017a4ba526749df180a21ef878c56b933eae37459c6a5b97364849a5209844485e873a7b91d46a613f0f13b79b
+DIST ufoLib2-0.8.0.zip 82448 BLAKE2B 496980d61a6d46dee3fc3ae6e69df92db78fa3ba0e2262032cfb45dc77f842ea04c7ea019764deb7565b9ded9dbe5263022376212d7c42782180d0b5d5c0dcc2 SHA512 8ce5af30b77dfbadc16beda2028f2d62468e3fb54998209f0940cb82dac0f0c1bf33813905aae5ea9cb2b05c7e29fdcd0a8ba8058b44ddc0d43f2863f71e4ebd
diff --git a/dev-python/ufoLib2/ufoLib2-0.8.0.ebuild b/dev-python/ufoLib2/ufoLib2-0.8.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0e8c36fe52
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+++ b/dev-python/ufoLib2/ufoLib2-0.8.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="7"
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{6,7,8} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="A UFO font library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/fonttools/ufoLib2"
+SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${PN:0:1}/${PN}/${P}.zip"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+
+# fs not pulled in by fonttools
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/fonttools-4.0.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/fs[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/attrs-19.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	dev-python/setuptools_scm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/typing-extensions[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+BDEPEND="app-arch/unzip"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+distutils_enable_sphinx docs/source dev-python/typing-extensions dev-python/sphinx_rtd_theme
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	sed -e '/\<wheel\>/d' -i setup.cfg || die
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}