diff --git a/dev-util/afdko/Manifest b/dev-util/afdko/Manifest
index 9bb7f468bf..bc52820a94 100644
--- a/dev-util/afdko/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/afdko/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST afdko-3.6.2.tar.gz 12669802 BLAKE2B 55be8d0e0f9cbca187cff9f33113dab39d15d4a96f02ca1e356e3357204bf50b52ab6575ebb1bbf7f24b1406332be25b9b34300ae383ba0f33b873c2a945fc81 SHA512 6a3ad1a268daa321f2bc68be40674bbd68cb4d9d03622aa5884823ff74d86567739e17b1152ad24af186dbba6e623fe77f448c330a08b61b9b9813e6ff1d04c5
+DIST afdko-3.8.1.tar.gz 14290160 BLAKE2B 17cfe6666d5b981bff9b8e41e58ac511d04add7408636782ea8c2ad94af36129d58eda2016af5542825f64a62d79fb1ea3e02e9af8dca4df072bb2abbe67032d SHA512 543f4909a8859e71c11629c35f41de56bcc2bc6d0fe217fa467660783cf3dbb7be9f1dc8e890944d90c8ed4f8da7b97a72e9cd6c6fe528e70dbac300fd5244f3
diff --git a/dev-util/afdko/afdko-3.8.1.ebuild b/dev-util/afdko/afdko-3.8.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c13ed48b72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/afdko/afdko-3.8.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..9} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/afdko
+	https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko
+"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/archive/refs/tags/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+
+#lxml, unicodedata2, fs, brotli, brotlicffi, zopfli, fontpens are indirect dependencies
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/lxml-4.8.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/fs-2.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=app-arch/brotli-1.0.1[python,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/brotlicffi-0.8.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=app-arch/zopfli-0.1.4
+	dev-python/fontPens[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+
+	>=dev-python/booleanOperations-0.9.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/defcon-0.9.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/fontMath-0.8.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/fonttools-4.26.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-util/psautohint-2.3.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/tqdm-4.62.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/ufoNormalizer-0.6.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/ufoProcessor-1.9.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	>=dev-python/cython-0.29.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/scikit-build-0.11.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/setuptools_scm-3.2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-util/ninja
+	dev-util/cmake
+"
+
+DOCS=( {README,NEWS}.md docs )
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-nowheel.diff"
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-3.6.2-_get_scripts-to-data_files.patch"
+)
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	export SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION="${PV}"
+}
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	rm docs/*.{yml,plist} || die
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	local -x PYTHONPATH="${S}/python:${PYTHONPATH}"
+	local -x PATH="${BUILD_DIR}/test/scripts:${S}/c/build_all:${PATH}"
+	distutils_install_for_testing
+	epytest -vv || die
+}