diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 89ab697..83ff66b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -182,24 +182,20 @@ Other monospaced fonts with ligatures:
 - [Iosevka](https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/) (free)
 - [DejaVu Sans Code](https://github.com/SSNikolaevich/DejaVuSansCode) (free)
 
-### Building
+### Building Fira Code locally
 
-On macOS:
+In case you want to alter FiraCode.glyphs and build OTF/TTF/WOFF files yourself, this is setup I use on macOS:
 
+```bash
+# install all required build tools
+script/bootstrap
+
+# build the font files
+script/build
+
+# install OTFs to ~/Library/Fonts
+script/install
 ```
-sudo easy_install pip
-pip install virtualenv --user
-python -m virtualenv venv
-source venv/bin/activate
-pip install gftools
-pip install fontmake
-brew install ttfautohint
-brew install woff2
-brew tap bramstein/webfonttools
-brew install sfnt2woff-zopfli
-```
-
-Run `./build.sh`
 
 ### Credits
 
diff --git a/googlefonts-qa/scripts/build.sh b/googlefonts-qa/scripts/build.sh
index fcb4d4e..19fefe6 120000
--- a/googlefonts-qa/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/googlefonts-qa/scripts/build.sh
@@ -1 +1 @@
-../../build.sh
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+../../script/build
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diff --git a/script/bootstrap b/script/bootstrap
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..23e1709
--- /dev/null
+++ b/script/bootstrap
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#! /bin/bash -ex
+
+sudo easy_install pip
+pip3 install virtualenv --user
+python3 -m virtualenv venv
+source venv/bin/activate
+
+# https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools/issues/121
+brew install pkg-config
+pip3 install -U Pillow==5.4.1 idna==2.8 requests==2.21.0 urllib3==1.24.1
+export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig"
+pip3 install pycairo
+pip3 install git+https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools
+
+pip3 install fontmake
+brew install ttfautohint
+brew install woff2
+brew tap bramstein/webfonttools
+brew install sfnt2woff-zopfli
diff --git a/build.sh b/script/build
similarity index 99%
rename from build.sh
rename to script/build
index 4e2d9d7..8d31979 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/script/build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
+#!/bin/bash -ex
+
 source venv/bin/activate
 
 # ============================================================================
diff --git a/script/install b/script/install
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8f3d10b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/script/install
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/bash -ex
+
+cp distr/otf/*.otf ~/Library/Fonts
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diff --git a/release.sh b/script/release
similarity index 100%
rename from release.sh
rename to script/release