diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/hexrgb/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/hexrgb/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b9ebcd6026..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/hexrgb/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{ fetchurl, lib, melpaBuild }:
-
-melpaBuild {
-  pname = "hexrgb";
-  version = "20170304.1017";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/hexrgb.el";
-    sha256 = "1aj1fsc3wr8174xs45j2wc2mm6f8v6zs40xn0r4qisdw0plmsbsy";
-    name = "hexrgb.el";
-  };
-
-  recipe = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milkypostman/melpa/a5d15f875b0080b12ce45cf696c581f6bbf061ba/recipes/hexrgb";
-    sha256 = "0mzqslrrf7sc262syj3ja7b7rnbg80dwf2p9bzxdrzx6b8vvsx06";
-    name = "hexrgb";
-  };
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = "https://melpa.org/#/hexrgb";
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix
index 3f4c0088a7c..9711a1ccbb2 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix
@@ -107,8 +107,6 @@
     };
   };
 
-  hexrgb = callPackage ./hexrgb { };
-
   header2 = callPackage ./header2 { };
 
   helm-words = callPackage ./helm-words { };