diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3c7343e..5b2cee7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 setup(
     name='base122',
     version='2025.2.12',
-    description='A short description of the base122 library',
+    description='A base122 encoding and decoding library for Python',
     long_description=open('README.md').read(),
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     url='https://github.com/bartbroere/base122',