diff --git a/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig-ultimate.nix b/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig-ultimate.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 84d90899dfff..000000000000
--- a/nixos/modules/config/fonts/fontconfig-ultimate.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-
-let cfg = config.fonts.fontconfig.ultimate;
-
- latestVersion = pkgs.fontconfig.configVersion;
-
- # The configuration to be included in /etc/font/
- confPkg = pkgs.runCommand "font-ultimate-conf" { preferLocalBuild = true; } ''
- support_folder=$out/etc/fonts/conf.d
- latest_folder=$out/etc/fonts/${latestVersion}/conf.d
-
- mkdir -p $support_folder
- mkdir -p $latest_folder
-
- # fontconfig ultimate substitutions
- ${optionalString (cfg.substitutions != "none") ''
- ln -s ${pkgs.fontconfig-ultimate}/etc/fonts/presets/${cfg.substitutions}/*.conf \
- $support_folder
- ln -s ${pkgs.fontconfig-ultimate}/etc/fonts/presets/${cfg.substitutions}/*.conf \
- $latest_folder
- ''}
-
- # fontconfig ultimate various configuration files
- ln -s ${pkgs.fontconfig-ultimate}/etc/fonts/conf.d/*.conf \
- $support_folder
- ln -s ${pkgs.fontconfig-ultimate}/etc/fonts/conf.d/*.conf \
- $latest_folder
- '';
-
-in
-{
-
- options = {
-
- fonts = {
-
- fontconfig = {
-
- ultimate = {
- enable = mkOption {
- type = types.bool;
- default = false;
- description = ''
- Enable fontconfig-ultimate settings (formerly known as
- Infinality). Besides the customizable settings in this NixOS
- module, fontconfig-ultimate also provides many font-specific
- rendering tweaks.
- '';
- };
-
- substitutions = mkOption {
- type = types.enum ["free" "combi" "ms" "none"];
- default = "free";
- description = ''
- Font substitutions to replace common Type 1 fonts with nicer
- TrueType fonts. free uses free fonts,
- ms uses Microsoft fonts,
- combi uses a combination, and
- none disables the substitutions.
- '';
- };
-
- preset = mkOption {
- type = types.enum ["ultimate1" "ultimate2" "ultimate3" "ultimate4" "ultimate5" "osx" "windowsxp"];
- default = "ultimate3";
- description = ''
- FreeType rendering settings preset. Any of the presets may be
- customized by setting environment variables.
- '';
- };
- };
- };
- };
-
- };
-
- config = mkIf (config.fonts.fontconfig.enable && cfg.enable) {
-
- fonts.fontconfig.confPackages = [ confPkg ];
- environment.variables.INFINALITY_FT = cfg.preset;
-
- };
-
-}
diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 2ad6188cc259..f7c66166c5c5 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
./config/debug-info.nix
./config/fonts/fontconfig.nix
./config/fonts/fontconfig-penultimate.nix
- ./config/fonts/fontconfig-ultimate.nix
./config/fonts/fontdir.nix
./config/fonts/fonts.nix
./config/fonts/ghostscript.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/rename.nix b/nixos/modules/rename.nix
index 6c6a5915426b..7d8cf55b827a 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/rename.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/rename.nix
@@ -292,5 +292,14 @@ with lib;
(opt: mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "prometheus" "${opt}" ] ''
The prometheus exporters are now configured using `services.prometheus.exporters'.
See the 18.03 release notes for more information.
+ '' ))
+
+ ++ (forEach [ "enable" "substitutions" "preset" ]
+ (opt: mkRemovedOptionModule [ "fonts" "fontconfig" "ultimate" "${opt}" ] ''
+ The fonts.fontconfig.ultimate module and configuration is obsolete.
+ The repository has since been archived and activity has ceased.
+ https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/171.
+ No action should be needed for font configuration, as the fonts.fontconfig
+ module is already used by default.
'' ));
}