diff --git a/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/Makefile b/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/Makefile
index 6dfda021f861..1df90a6ded97 100644
--- a/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/Makefile
+++ b/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/Makefile
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 PORTNAME=	font-misc-ethiopic
-PORTVERSION=	1.0.4
+DISTVERSION=	1.0.5
 CATEGORIES=	x11-fonts
 
 MAINTAINER=	x11@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	X.Org miscellaneous Ethiopic font
-WWW=		https://www.x.org/
+WWW=		https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/font/misc-ethiopic
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
-USES=		xorg-cat:font
+USES=		tar:xz xorg-cat:font
 FONTNAME=	TTF
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/distinfo b/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/distinfo
index 9e25218a21cb..684434f63e4f 100644
--- a/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/distinfo
+++ b/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1597254627
-SHA256 (xorg/font/font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.4.tar.bz2) = 698c0f6ddf9ca482250bdafa08293893148393bb9cb23e0a9ca313c6dbfc4ae0
-SIZE (xorg/font/font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.4.tar.bz2) = 270076
+TIMESTAMP = 1778283854
+SHA256 (xorg/font/font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.5.tar.xz) = 4749a7e6e1a1eef6c91fcc9a04e8b1c0ed027d40c1599e5a6c93270d8469b612
+SIZE (xorg/font/font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.5.tar.xz) = 222624
diff --git a/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/pkg-descr b/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/pkg-descr
index c38427bf8fbe..ef2def4c5b8e 100644
--- a/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/pkg-descr
+++ b/x11-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic/pkg-descr
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-This package contains miscellaneous X.Org Ethiopic fonts.
+This is the Ge'ez Frontiers Foundation's Zemen class font based on the
+Goha-Tibeb HP LasterJet fonts.