diff --git a/Library/Formula/allegro.rb b/Library/Formula/allegro.rb
index 812ffecda042..d5a17be6630c 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/allegro.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/allegro.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Allegro < Formula
-  desc "A multimedia library aimed at cross-platform game development"
+  desc "C/C++ multimedia library for cross-platform game development"
   homepage "http://liballeg.org/"
 
   stable do
diff --git a/Library/Formula/asciinema.rb b/Library/Formula/asciinema.rb
index 388481920f26..c85dc0a57f4e 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/asciinema.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/asciinema.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 require "language/go"
 
 class Asciinema < Formula
+  desc "Record and share terminal sessions"
   homepage "https://asciinema.org/"
-  desc "A terminal session recorder"
   url "https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz"
   sha256 "2f03549620534341e883b630c6947c3b4ecd234105ec1d7aa98393a00f0845e8"
 
diff --git a/Library/Formula/caddy.rb b/Library/Formula/caddy.rb
index fa53a9c0bfe3..0d11493137d4 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/caddy.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/caddy.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ class Caddy < Formula
   homepage "https://caddyserver.com/"
   url "https://github.com/mholt/caddy/archive/v0.6.0.tar.gz"
   sha256 "919023cd91b6ab94fcde08fc30620b10f90eaaa95ab8b9f3ff7e06c0e9b7f301"
-  desc "Caddy is an alternative HTTP/2 web server that is easy to configure and use"
+  desc "Alternative general-purpose HTTP/2 web server"
 
   bottle do
     cellar :any
diff --git a/Library/Formula/gitup.rb b/Library/Formula/gitup.rb
index 630f28bf8243..0500da6b2dca 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/gitup.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/gitup.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Gitup < Formula
-  desc "Allows you to easily update multiple git repositories at once"
+  desc "Update multiple git repositories at once"
   homepage "https://github.com/earwig/git-repo-updater"
   url "https://github.com/earwig/git-repo-updater.git",
     :revision => "51a482d7a25bed39ccc75780813c65bd666c1436",
diff --git a/Library/Formula/gws.rb b/Library/Formula/gws.rb
index 4e300d1fd6eb..2564cc31145a 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/gws.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/gws.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 class Gws < Formula
   homepage "https://streakycobra.github.io/gws/"
-  desc "A KISS, bash, colorful helper to manage git repositories"
+  desc "Manage workspaces composed of git repositories"
   url "https://github.com/StreakyCobra/gws/archive/0.1.7.tar.gz"
   sha256 "36c25392f5cb93a39441a1973842249a62b605a2a7e369a040c78450683697d0"
 
diff --git a/Library/Formula/hugo.rb b/Library/Formula/hugo.rb
index b9f365306f07..0938eaa30e6a 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/hugo.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/hugo.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 require "language/go"
 
 class Hugo < Formula
-  desc "A static site generator emphasizing speed and configurability"
+  desc "Configurable static site generator"
   homepage "https://gohugo.io/"
   url "https://github.com/spf13/hugo/archive/v0.14.tar.gz"
   sha256 "67e0fda342e6a35490ce03f5535e30cf04bc06775c47bacf416d96d83cce4535"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/inspircd.rb b/Library/Formula/inspircd.rb
index 6e2d97b4f4f9..e53121edecd4 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/inspircd.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/inspircd.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Inspircd < Formula
-  desc "A modular C++ Internet Relay Chat daemon"
+  desc "Modular C++ Internet Relay Chat daemon"
   homepage "http://www.inspircd.org"
   url "https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/archive/v2.0.20.tar.gz"
   sha256 "5156e2da5da4cfa377705ecd633aee41cdcd785d12627497d55cab5f70dd686f"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/iojs.rb b/Library/Formula/iojs.rb
index 3e7a48017304..c87ce0d1ef87 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/iojs.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/iojs.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Iojs < Formula
-  desc "An npm-compatible platform based on Node.js"
+  desc "npm-compatible platform based on Node.js"
   homepage "https://iojs.org/"
   url "https://iojs.org/dist/v2.2.1/iojs-v2.2.1.tar.xz"
   sha256 "26cce6e3581185ef3b1fe486a86ba9e18d611f6dfe439cfcbcfc8e639436a5bd"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/julius.rb b/Library/Formula/julius.rb
index 426e0462960b..b15212dc70fd 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/julius.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/julius.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Julius < Formula
-  desc "Open-Source Large Vocabulary CSR Engine"
+  desc "Two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine"
   homepage "http://julius.osdn.jp"
   url "http://dl.osdn.jp/julius/60273/julius-4.3.1.tar.gz"
   sha256 "4bf77c7b91f4bb0686c375c70bd4f2077e7de7db44f60716af9f3660f65a6253"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/librcsc.rb b/Library/Formula/librcsc.rb
index ac4341101fde..18965deed5b3 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/librcsc.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/librcsc.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Librcsc < Formula
-  desc "RoboCup Soccer Simulation Library"
+  desc "RoboCup Soccer Simulator library"
   homepage "https://osdn.jp/projects/rctools/"
   url "http://dl.osdn.jp/rctools/51941/librcsc-4.1.0.tar.gz"
   sha256 "1e8f66927b03fb921c5a2a8c763fb7297a4349c81d1411c450b180178b46f481"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/libxdg-basedir.rb b/Library/Formula/libxdg-basedir.rb
index d509cdd423da..c1b954bcc48a 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/libxdg-basedir.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/libxdg-basedir.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class LibxdgBasedir < Formula
-  desc "An implementation of the XDG Base Directory specifications"
+  desc "C implementation of the XDG Base Directory specifications"
   homepage "https://github.com/devnev/libxdg-basedir"
   url "https://github.com/devnev/libxdg-basedir/archive/libxdg-basedir-1.2.0.tar.gz"
   sha256 "1c2b0032a539033313b5be2e48ddd0ae94c84faf21d93956d53562eef4614868"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/luyten.rb b/Library/Formula/luyten.rb
index e8a5b52130ad..1f6c753a2416 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/luyten.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/luyten.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 class Luyten < Formula
   homepage "https://deathmarine.github.io/Luyten/"
-  desc "An Open Source Java Decompiler Gui for Procyon"
+  desc "Java decompiler GUI for Procyon"
   url "https://github.com/deathmarine/Luyten/releases/download/v0.4.4/luyten-0.4.4.jar", :using => :nounzip
   sha256 "73d57db704952b5331b3bb2132e1a31a2b56df443a32b0fef336473428a0dcb1"
 
diff --git a/Library/Formula/multirust.rb b/Library/Formula/multirust.rb
index e06fb16206c3..29d494d36b22 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/multirust.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/multirust.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 class Multirust < Formula
   homepage "https://github.com/brson/multirust"
-  desc "A tool for managing multiple Rust installations"
+  desc "Manage multiple Rust installations"
 
   # Use the tag instead of the tarball to get submodules
   url "https://github.com/brson/multirust.git",
diff --git a/Library/Formula/negfix8.rb b/Library/Formula/negfix8.rb
index 3d793f3b5c3d..be7bc3af9ca8 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/negfix8.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/negfix8.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Negfix8 < Formula
-  desc "Negfix8 turns scanned negative images into positives."
+  desc "Turn scanned negative images into positives"
   homepage "https://sites.google.com/site/negfix"
   url "https://sites.google.com/site/negfix/downloads/negfix8.3.tgz"
   sha256 "2f360b0dd16ca986fbaebf5873ee55044cae591546b573bb17797cbf569515bd"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/nicovideo-dl.rb b/Library/Formula/nicovideo-dl.rb
index 00082f866a64..fabfc2bd76fa 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/nicovideo-dl.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/nicovideo-dl.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class NicovideoDl < Formula
-  desc "command-line program to download videos from www.nicovideo.jp"
+  desc "Command-line program to download videos from www.nicovideo.jp"
   homepage "https://osdn.jp/projects/nicovideo-dl/"
   url "http://dl.osdn.jp/nicovideo-dl/56304/nicovideo-dl-0.0.20120212.tar.gz"
   sha256 "a50e9d5c9c291e1e10e5fc3ad27d528b49c9671bdd63e36fb2f49d70b54b89d8"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/nkf.rb b/Library/Formula/nkf.rb
index 002a1e2df373..6cafc225dccf 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/nkf.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/nkf.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Nkf < Formula
-  desc "Network Kanji Filter"
+  desc "Network Kanji code conversion Filter (NKF)"
   homepage "https://osdn.jp/projects/nkf/"
   url "http://dl.osdn.jp/nkf/59912/nkf-2.1.3.tar.gz"
   sha256 "8cb430ae69a1ad58b522eb4927b337b5b420bbaeb69df255919019dc64b72fc2"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/pla.rb b/Library/Formula/pla.rb
index 6412b34e6989..99cf364008aa 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/pla.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/pla.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Pla < Formula
-  desc "A tool for building gantt charts in format PNG, EPS, PDF or SVG."
+  desc "Tool for building Gantt charts in PNG, EPS, PDF or SVG format"
   homepage "http://www.arpalert.org/pla.html"
   url "http://www.arpalert.org/src/pla-1.2.tar.gz"
   sha256 "c2f1ce50b04032abf7f88ac07648ea40bed2443e86e9f28f104d341965f52b9c"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/soccerwindow2.rb b/Library/Formula/soccerwindow2.rb
index c2ea2fee69ce..795091221108 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/soccerwindow2.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/soccerwindow2.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Soccerwindow2 < Formula
-  desc "RoboCup Soccer Simulation Component"
+  desc "Tools for RoboCup Soccer Simulator"
   homepage "https://osdn.jp/projects/rctools/"
   url "http://dl.osdn.jp/rctools/51942/soccerwindow2-5.1.0.tar.gz"
   sha256 "3505f662144d5c97628191c941e84af4d384770733b9ff93ab8b58c2d1b9c22b"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/syntaxerl.rb b/Library/Formula/syntaxerl.rb
index 0b7c116d4ffd..6d08305abdf2 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/syntaxerl.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/syntaxerl.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 class Syntaxerl < Formula
   homepage "https://github.com/ten0s/syntaxerl"
-  desc "Syntax-checker for Erlang code and config files"
+  desc "Syntax checker for Erlang code and config files"
   url "https://github.com/ten0s/syntaxerl/archive/0.8.0.tar.gz"
   sha256 "4c5a6390a7d28869bf44cc831ae59cb69480a8481853de8dd59672b7cf5bff7b"
 
diff --git a/Library/Formula/tvnamer.rb b/Library/Formula/tvnamer.rb
index 72268fa40b46..fbe212259f77 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/tvnamer.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/tvnamer.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Tvnamer < Formula
-  desc "Automatic TV episode file renamer"
+  desc "Automatic TV episode file renamer that uses data from thetvdb.com"
   homepage "https://github.com/dbr/tvnamer"
   url "https://github.com/dbr/tvnamer/archive/2.3.tar.gz"
   sha256 "c28836f4c9263ee8ad6994788ad35f00e66fa1bd602e876364cd9b938f2843c8"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/ufraw.rb b/Library/Formula/ufraw.rb
index 26a82d0b8804..6e74067294f9 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/ufraw.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/ufraw.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Ufraw < Formula
-  desc "RAW image processing utility"
+  desc "Unidentified Flying RAW: RAW image processing utility"
   homepage "http://ufraw.sourceforge.net"
   url "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ufraw/ufraw/ufraw-0.21/ufraw-0.21.tar.gz"
   sha256 "2a6a1bcc633bdc8e15615cf726befcd7f27ab00e7c2a518469a24e1a96964d87"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/vimpager.rb b/Library/Formula/vimpager.rb
index 055ed2de02ce..a4773c43d307 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/vimpager.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/vimpager.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 class Vimpager < Formula
+  desc "Use ViM as PAGER"
   homepage "https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager"
-  desc "vimpager: Use Vim as PAGER"
   url "https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager/archive/2.04.tar.gz"
   sha256 "eefbfe178ea03be3df8bbad82ba162797ab8fb49c994b4b240d513cd0c3ef3f0"
   head "https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager.git"
diff --git a/Library/Formula/yash.rb b/Library/Formula/yash.rb
index 82f86e1e4926..6116a3de9627 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/yash.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/yash.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 class Yash < Formula
-  desc "Yash, yet another shell, is a POSIX-compliant command-line shell"
+  desc "Yet another shell: a POSIX-compliant command-line shell"
   homepage "http://yash.osdn.jp"
   url "http://dl.osdn.jp/yash/62651/yash-2.37.tar.gz"
   sha256 "b976692de245ad3fb17bf87eb8b2e4c9bba4537e3820d488624c868e7408faaa"