diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 32a566b813..b47f562d4a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 [project]
 name = "codespell"
-description = "Codespell"
+description = "Fix common misspellings in text files"
 readme = { file = "README.rst", content-type = "text/x-rst" }
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
 license = {text = "GPL-2.0-only"}