diff --git a/bionemo-recipes/recipes/codonfm_ptl_te/requirements.txt b/bionemo-recipes/recipes/codonfm_ptl_te/requirements.txt
index 210df7bfd6..96d3779152 100644
--- a/bionemo-recipes/recipes/codonfm_ptl_te/requirements.txt
+++ b/bionemo-recipes/recipes/codonfm_ptl_te/requirements.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ fastapi==0.117.1
 fastjsonschema==2.21.1
 fiddle==0.3.0
 filelock==3.18.0
-fonttools==4.59.0
+fonttools==4.61.0
 fqdn==1.5.1
 fsspec==2025.7.0
 gast==0.6.0