diff --git a/pkgs/data/fonts/iosevka/default.nix b/pkgs/data/fonts/iosevka/default.nix
index 5167c494fa0..36fddc3ce0f 100644
--- a/pkgs/data/fonts/iosevka/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/data/fonts/iosevka/default.nix
@@ -27,21 +27,29 @@
 
 assert (privateBuildPlan != null) -> set != null;
 
+let
+  # We don't know the attribute name for the Iosevka package as it
+  # changes not when our update script is run (which in turn updates
+  # node-packages.json, but when node-packages/generate.sh is run
+  # (which updates node-packages.nix).
+  #
+  # Doing it this way ensures that the package can always be built,
+  # although possibly an older version than ioseva-bin.
+  nodeIosevka = (
+    lib.findSingle
+      (drv: drv ? packageName && drv.packageName == "iosevka")
+      (throw "no 'iosevka' package found in nodePackages")
+      (throw "multiple 'iosevka' packages found in nodePackages")
+      (lib.attrValues nodePackages)
+  ).override (drv: { dontNpmInstall = true; });
+in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = if set != null then "iosevka-${set}" else "iosevka";
-
-  version = "3.2.2";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "be5invis";
-    repo = "Iosevka";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1wbnp6gr3ywvspwk6i0jn68zwjmsd38arn4n2dkh7mdkrmvah81k";
-  };
+  inherit (nodeIosevka) version src;
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     nodejs
-    nodePackages."iosevka-build-deps-../../data/fonts/iosevka"
+    nodeIosevka
     remarshal
     otfcc
     ttfautohint-nox
@@ -61,9 +69,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       echo -e "\n" >> parameters.toml
       cat "$extraParametersPath" >> parameters.toml
     ''}
-    ln -s ${
-      nodePackages."iosevka-build-deps-../../data/fonts/iosevka"
-    }/lib/node_modules/iosevka-build-deps/node_modules .
+    ln -s ${nodeIosevka}/lib/node_modules/iosevka/node_modules .
     runHook postConfigure
   '';
 
@@ -74,9 +80,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
     fontdir="$out/share/fonts/truetype"
     install -d "$fontdir"
     install "dist/$pname/ttf"/* "$fontdir"
+    runHook postInstall
   '';
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/data/fonts/iosevka/package.json b/pkgs/data/fonts/iosevka/package.json
deleted file mode 100644
index bc772960882..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/data/fonts/iosevka/package.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-{
-	"name": "iosevka-build-deps",
-	"version": "3.2.2",
-	"scripts": {
-		"build": "verda -f verdafile.js"
-	},
-	"dependencies": {
-		"@iarna/toml": "^2.2.5",
-		"cldr": "^5.5.4",
-		"ejs": "^3.1.3",
-		"fs-extra": "^9.0.0",
-		"object-assign": "^4.1.1",
-		"otfcc-ttcize": "^0.10.2",
-		"patel": "^0.33.1",
-		"prettier": "^2.0.5",
-		"semver": "^7.1.3",
-		"spiro": "^2.0.0",
-		"stylus": "^0.54.7",
-		"topsort": "^0.0.2",
-		"ttf2woff": "^2.0.1",
-		"ttf2woff2": "^3.0.0",
-		"typo-geom": "^0.8.0",
-		"unicode-13.0.0": "^0.8.0",
-		"unorm": "^1.6.0",
-		"verda": "^1.0.1",
-		"which": "^2.0.2"
-	}
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
index 479e28cfabe..0e46f65c782 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 , "indium"
 , "insect"
 , "ionic"
-, { "iosevka-build-deps": "../../data/fonts/iosevka" }
+, {"iosevka": "https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/archive/v3.7.1.tar.gz"}
 , "jake"
 , "javascript-typescript-langserver"
 , "joplin"