diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+.DS_Store
+composer.lock
+vendor
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
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+{
+    "name": "phenx/php-font-lib",
+    "type": "library",
+    "description": "A library to read, parse, export and make subsets of different types of font files.",
+    "homepage": "https://github.com/PhenX/php-font-lib",
+    "license": "LGPL",
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "name": "Fabien Ménager",
+            "email": "fabien.menager@gmail.com"
+        }
+    ],
+    "autoload": {
+        "classmap": ["classes/"]
+    }
+}