diff --git a/.changeset/declaration-dependencies.md b/.changeset/declaration-dependencies.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7bdeeb9a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/declaration-dependencies.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+'@react-pdf/font': patch
+'@react-pdf/textkit': patch
+'@react-pdf/layout': patch
+---
+
+fix: declare the packages imported by published type declarations as dependencies (`@types/fontkit` in font and textkit, `@react-pdf/font` in textkit and layout), so they type-check with `skipLibCheck: false`
diff --git a/packages/font/package.json b/packages/font/package.json
index 48dfc11c9..0d76480a3 100644
--- a/packages/font/package.json
+++ b/packages/font/package.json
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@react-pdf/types": "^2.14.0",
+    "@types/fontkit": "^2.0.7",
     "fontkit": "^2.0.2",
     "is-url": "^1.2.4",
     "pdfkit": "0.20.1"
@@ -32,7 +33,6 @@
     "lib"
   ],
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@types/fontkit": "^2.0.7",
     "@types/is-url": "^1.2.32"
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/layout/package.json b/packages/layout/package.json
index 4e6c84aa3..6132c6642 100644
--- a/packages/layout/package.json
+++ b/packages/layout/package.json
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@react-pdf/fns": "3.1.3",
+    "@react-pdf/font": "^4.1.2",
     "@react-pdf/image": "^3.1.2",
     "@react-pdf/paginate": "1.0.1",
     "@react-pdf/primitives": "^4.4.0",
diff --git a/packages/textkit/package.json b/packages/textkit/package.json
index 239d04b8b..9fa2f7af3 100644
--- a/packages/textkit/package.json
+++ b/packages/textkit/package.json
@@ -26,11 +26,10 @@
   ],
   "dependencies": {
     "@react-pdf/fns": "3.1.3",
+    "@react-pdf/font": "^4.1.2",
     "@react-pdf/hyphenate": "^0.1.0",
+    "@types/fontkit": "^2.0.7",
     "bidi-js": "^1.0.2",
     "unicode-properties": "^1.4.1"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "@types/fontkit": "^2.0.7"
   }
 }