diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 4a10f51c20e..b9c93d87815 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -3064,6 +3064,12 @@
     githubId = 25820499;
     name = "Roman Kretschmer";
   };
+  goertzenator = {
+    email = "daniel.goertzen@gmail.com";
+    github = "goertzenator";
+    githubId = 605072;
+    name = "Daniel Goertzen";
+  };
   goibhniu = {
     email = "cillian.deroiste@gmail.com";
     github = "cillianderoiste";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/freetype-py/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/freetype-py/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a1259b85673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/freetype-py/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, substituteAll, stdenv, setuptools_scm, freetype }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "freetype-py";
+  version = "2.1.0.post1";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1k62fx53qrv9nb73mpqi2r11wzbx41qfv5qppvh6rylywnrknf3n";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    (substituteAll {
+      src = ./library-paths.patch;
+      freetype = "${freetype.out}/lib/libfreetype${stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.sharedLibrary}";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ setuptools_scm ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ freetype ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck =  [ "freetype" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/rougier/freetype-py";
+    description = "FreeType (high-level Python API)";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ goertzenator ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/freetype-py/library-paths.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/freetype-py/library-paths.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a30c7e7355f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/freetype-py/library-paths.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+diff --git a/freetype/raw.py b/freetype/raw.py
+index ff3bea3..78c68ab 100644
+--- a/freetype/raw.py
++++ b/freetype/raw.py
+@@ -19,31 +19,7 @@ from freetype.ft_enums import *
+ from freetype.ft_errors import *
+ from freetype.ft_structs import *
+ 
+-# First, look for a bundled FreeType shared object on the top-level of the
+-# installed freetype-py module.
+-system = platform.system()
+-if system == 'Windows':
+-    library_name = 'libfreetype.dll'
+-elif system == 'Darwin':
+-    library_name = 'libfreetype.dylib'
+-else:
+-    library_name = 'libfreetype.so'
+-
+-filename = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(freetype.__file__), library_name)
+-
+-# If no bundled shared object is found, look for a system-wide installed one.
+-if not os.path.exists(filename):
+-    # on windows all ctypes does when checking for the library
+-    # is to append .dll to the end and look for an exact match
+-    # within any entry in PATH.
+-    filename = ctypes.util.find_library('freetype')
+-
+-    if filename is None:
+-        if platform.system() == 'Windows':
+-            # Check current working directory for dll as ctypes fails to do so
+-            filename = os.path.join(os.path.realpath('.'), "freetype.dll")
+-        else:
+-            filename = library_name
++filename = "@freetype@"
+ 
+ try:
+     _lib = ctypes.CDLL(filename)
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/vispy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/vispy/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..029132933a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/vispy/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, substituteAll, stdenv,
+  fetchPypi, numpy, cython, freetype-py, fontconfig, libGL,
+  setuptools_scm, setuptools-scm-git-archive
+  }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "vispy";
+  version = "0.6.4";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "07sb4qww6mgzm66qsrr3pd66yz39r6jj4ibb3qmfg1kwnxs6ayv2";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    (substituteAll {
+      src = ./library-paths.patch;
+      fontconfig = "${fontconfig.lib}/lib/libfontconfig${stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.sharedLibrary}";
+      gl = "${libGL.out}/lib/libGL${stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.sharedLibrary}";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    cython setuptools_scm setuptools-scm-git-archive
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    numpy freetype-py fontconfig libGL
+  ];
+
+  doCheck = false;  # otherwise runs OSX code on linux.
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "vispy" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "http://vispy.org/index.html";
+    description = "Interactive scientific visualization in Python";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ goertzenator ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/vispy/library-paths.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/vispy/library-paths.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..05b583c12e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/vispy/library-paths.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+diff --git a/vispy/ext/fontconfig.py b/vispy/ext/fontconfig.py
+index ff24662b..6a5079f0 100644
+--- a/vispy/ext/fontconfig.py
++++ b/vispy/ext/fontconfig.py
+@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ from ..util.wrappers import run_subprocess
+ 
+ # Some code adapted from Pyglet
+ 
+-fc = util.find_library('fontconfig')
+-if fc is None:
+-    raise ImportError('fontconfig not found')
+-fontconfig = cdll.LoadLibrary(fc)
++fontconfig = cdll.LoadLibrary('@fontconfig@')
+ 
+ FC_FAMILY = 'family'.encode('ASCII')
+ FC_SIZE = 'size'.encode('ASCII')
+diff --git a/vispy/gloo/gl/gl2.py b/vispy/gloo/gl/gl2.py
+index d5bd9c38..63350e73 100644
+--- a/vispy/gloo/gl/gl2.py
++++ b/vispy/gloo/gl/gl2.py
+@@ -39,16 +39,8 @@ elif sys.platform.startswith('win'):
+         pass
+ else:
+     # Unix-ish
+-    if sys.platform.startswith('darwin'):
+-        _fname = ctypes.util.find_library('OpenGL')
+-    else:
+-        _fname = ctypes.util.find_library('GL')
+-    if not _fname:
+-        logger.warning('Could not load OpenGL library.')
+-        _lib = None
+-    else:
+-        # Load lib
+-        _lib = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(_fname)
++    # Load lib
++    _lib = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("@gl@")
+ 
+ 
+ def _have_context():
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index ebf2585bfff..83672a227ed 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -766,6 +766,8 @@ in {
 
   foxdot = callPackage ../development/python-modules/foxdot { };
 
+  freetype-py = callPackage ../development/python-modules/freetype-py { };
+
   fsspec = callPackage ../development/python-modules/fsspec { };
 
   furl = callPackage ../development/python-modules/furl { };
@@ -6242,6 +6244,8 @@ in {
 
   virtualenv = callPackage ../development/python-modules/virtualenv { };
 
+  vispy = callPackage ../development/python-modules/vispy { };
+
   vsts = callPackage ../development/python-modules/vsts { };
 
   vsts-cd-manager = callPackage ../development/python-modules/vsts-cd-manager { };