diff --git a/pkgs/data/fonts/unifont_upper/default.nix b/pkgs/data/fonts/unifont_upper/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7dff5f82a6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/fonts/unifont_upper/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "unifont_upper-${version}";
+  version = "8.0.01";
+
+  ttf = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont-8.0.01/font-builds/${name}.ttf";
+    sha256 = "0ffqm85bk345pnql1x0rbg0z31472y844xibb27njjg4avb21lga";
+  };
+
+  phases = "installPhase";
+
+  installPhase =
+    ''
+      mkdir -p $out/share/fonts/truetype
+      cp -v ${ttf} $out/share/fonts/truetype/unifont_upper.ttf
+    '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Unicode font for glyphs above the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane";
+    homepage = http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html;
+
+    # Basically GPL2+ with font exception.
+    license = http://unifoundry.com/LICENSE.txt;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.mathnerd314 ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 047abb16ecf..13c7a44bfa3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10691,6 +10691,8 @@ let
 
   unifont = callPackage ../data/fonts/unifont { };
 
+  unifont_upper = callPackage ../data/fonts/unifont_upper { };
+
   vistafonts = callPackage ../data/fonts/vista-fonts { };
 
   wqy_microhei = callPackage ../data/fonts/wqy-microhei { };