diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libuninameslist/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libuninameslist/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5d4cc61fe7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libuninameslist/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ stdenv
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, autoreconfHook
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "libuninameslist";
+  version = "20190701";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "fontforge";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "sha256:034c8clnskvqbwyiq7si4dad1kbngi3jmnrj064i39msqixmpdzb";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    autoreconfHook
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/fontforge/libuninameslist/;
+    description = "A Library of Unicode names and annotation data";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ erictapen ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/fontforge/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/fontforge/default.nix
index 6239e839598..635d786da53 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/fontforge/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/fontforge/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, lib
-, autoconf, automake, gnum4, libtool, perl, gnulib, uthash, pkgconfig, gettext
+, autoconf, automake, gnum4, libtool, perl, uthash, pkgconfig, gettext
 , python, freetype, zlib, glib, libungif, libpng, libjpeg, libtiff, libxml2, cairo, pango
-, readline, woff2, zeromq
+, readline, woff2, zeromq, libuninameslist
 , withSpiro ? false, libspiro
 , withGTK ? false, gtk2
 , withPython ? true
@@ -11,15 +11,13 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "fontforge";
-  version = "20190413";
+  version = "20190801";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://github.com/${pname}/${pname}/releases/download/${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "05v640mnk4fy4jzmxb6c4n4qm800x7hy4sl5gcdgzmm3md2s0qk7";
+    sha256 = "0lh8yx01asbzxm6car5cfi64njh5p4lxc7iv8dldr5rwg357a86r";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./fontforge-20140813-use-system-uthash.patch ];
-
   # use $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH instead of non-deterministic timestamps
   postPatch = ''
     find . -type f -name '*.c' -exec sed -r -i 's#\btime\(&(.+)\)#if (getenv("SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH")) \1=atol(getenv("SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH")); else &#g' {} \;
@@ -34,7 +32,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig autoconf automake gnum4 libtool perl gettext ];
   buildInputs = [
-    readline uthash woff2 zeromq
+    readline uthash woff2 zeromq libuninameslist
     python freetype zlib glib libungif libpng libjpeg libtiff libxml2
   ]
     ++ lib.optionals withSpiro [libspiro]
@@ -53,9 +51,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(date -d ${version} +%s)
 
     export GIT="$(type -P true)"
-    cp -r "${gnulib}" ./gnulib
-    chmod +w -R ./gnulib
-    ./bootstrap --skip-git --gnulib-srcdir=./gnulib --force
+    ./bootstrap --skip-git --force
   '';
 
   doCheck = false; # tries to wget some fonts
@@ -74,5 +70,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     homepage = http://fontforge.github.io;
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.erictapen ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/fontforge/fontforge-20140813-use-system-uthash.patch b/pkgs/tools/misc/fontforge/fontforge-20140813-use-system-uthash.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index fb53c619b2b..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/fontforge/fontforge-20140813-use-system-uthash.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- a/Makefile.am.old	2014-08-12 10:07:32.000000000 +0530
-+++ b/Makefile.am	2014-09-08 16:23:56.046996941 +0530
-@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
- AM_CPPFLAGS =
- AM_LDFLAGS =
- 
--BUILT_SOURCES = uthash/src
- EXTRA_DIST =
- CLEANFILES =
- MOSTLYCLEANFILES =
-@@ -113,8 +112,7 @@
- 	Packaging/FontForge-doc.spec \
- 	Packaging/FontForge.spec \
- 	Packaging/FontForge.static.spec \
- 	README \
--	uthash/src \
- 	$(NULL)
- 
- #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-@@ -129,11 +127,6 @@
- 
- 
- #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--uthash/src:
--	if [ ! -e uthash/src ]; then \
--	if [ -e uthash ] ; then rm -r uthash ; fi ; \
--	git clone https://github.com/troydhanson/uthash ; \
--	fi ;
- 
- # We import a selection of targets from Frank's standard packaging Makefile.
- 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 88ce26c91e8..731c6009b54 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13072,6 +13072,8 @@ in
 
   libunibreak = callPackage ../development/libraries/libunibreak { };
 
+  libuninameslist = callPackage ../development/libraries/libuninameslist { };
+
   libunique = callPackage ../development/libraries/libunique { };
   libunique3 = callPackage ../development/libraries/libunique/3.x.nix { };