diff --git a/recipes/libs/pango/recipe.sh b/recipes/libs/pango/recipe.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index a76a68afb..000000000
--- a/recipes/libs/pango/recipe.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-VERSION="1.42.4"
-TAR="ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pango/${VERSION%.*}/pango-${VERSION}.tar.xz"
-BUILD_DEPENDS=(cairo expat fontconfig freetype2 fribidi gettext glib harfbuzz libffi libiconv libpng pcre pixman zlib)
-
-function recipe_version {
-	echo "$VERSION"
-	skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_build {
-	wget -O config.sub "https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/gnu-config/-/raw/master/config.sub?inline=false"
-	sysroot="$(realpath ../sysroot)"
-	export CFLAGS="-I$sysroot/include"
-	export LDFLAGS="-L$sysroot/lib --static"
-	export GLIB_MKENUMS="$sysroot/bin/glib-mkenums"
-	./configure \
-	    --build=${BUILD} \
-	    --host=${HOST} \
-	    --prefix=/ \
-	    --disable-shared \
-	    --enable-static
-	"$REDOX_MAKE" -j"$($NPROC)"
-    	skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_clean {
-	"$REDOX_MAKE" clean
-	skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_stage {
-	dest="$(realpath $1)"
-	"$REDOX_MAKE" DESTDIR="$dest" install
-	rm -f "$dest/lib/"*.la
-	skip=1
-}
diff --git a/recipes/libs/pango/recipe.toml b/recipes/libs/pango/recipe.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eaf03af80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/libs/pango/recipe.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+[source]
+tar="https://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.56/pango-1.56.3.tar.xz"
+blake3 = "78542feaaf007c1d648b94c4e9b6655ed7515d27ce434766aea99bef886c21ac"
+patches = ["redox.patch"]
+
+[build]
+dependencies = [
+	"cairo",
+	"expat",
+	"fontconfig",
+	"freetype2",
+	"fribidi",
+	"gettext",
+	"glib",
+	"harfbuzz",
+	"libffi",
+	"libiconv",
+	"libpng",
+	"pcre",
+	"pixman",
+	"zlib",
+]
+template = "custom"
+script = """
+DYNAMIC_INIT
+#TODO: why are these libs not automatic?
+cookbook_meson \
+    -Dc_args="-lfontconfig -lexpat -lpixman-1 -lpng -lz" \
+    -Dbuild-examples=false \
+    -Dbuild-testsuite=false
+"""
diff --git a/recipes/libs/pango/redox.patch b/recipes/libs/pango/redox.patch
index d6a96c33b..d04c9538d 100644
--- a/recipes/libs/pango/redox.patch
+++ b/recipes/libs/pango/redox.patch
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-diff -ruwN source/configure source-new/configure
---- source/configure	2015-10-12 13:14:13.000000000 -0600
-+++ source-new/configure	2019-07-16 17:31:27.949906081 -0600
-@@ -19323,7 +19323,7 @@
- fi
+diff -ruwN pango-1.56.3/meson.build source/meson.build
+--- pango-1.56.3/meson.build	2025-03-16 05:45:47.000000000 -0600
++++ source/meson.build	2025-05-01 13:51:05.834742120 -0600
+@@ -551,8 +551,8 @@
+ pango_inc = include_directories('pango')
  
- # Setup GLIB_MKENUMS to use glib-mkenums even if GLib is uninstalled.
--GLIB_MKENUMS=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=glib_mkenums glib-2.0`
-+#GLIB_MKENUMS=`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=glib_mkenums glib-2.0`
- 
- 
- #
+ subdir('pango')
+-subdir('utils')
+-subdir('tools')
++#TODO: fails to build on Redox: subdir('utils')
++#TODO: fails to build on Redox: subdir('tools')
+ subdir('docs')
+ if get_option('build-testsuite')
+   subdir('tests')