diff --git a/pkgs/data/fonts/symbola/default.nix b/pkgs/data/fonts/symbola/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..993a4c4f46d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/fonts/symbola/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "symbola-7.12";
+
+  ttf = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola.ttf";
+    sha256 = "7acc058bd4e56cc986b2a46420520f59be402c3565c202b5dcebca7f3bfd8b5a";
+  };
+  docs_pdf = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola.pdf";
+    sha256 = "11bb082ba5c2780a6f94a9bcddf4f314a54e2650bb63ce3081d1dc867c5e6843";
+  };
+  docs_docx = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola.docx";
+    sha256 = "4f0ab494e1e5a7aac147aa7bb8b8bdba7278aee2da942a35f995feb9051515b9";
+  };
+
+  phases = [ "installPhase" ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/share/fonts/truetype
+    cp -v "$ttf" $out/share/fonts/truetype/"${ttf.name}"
+
+    mkdir -p "$out/doc/${name}"
+    cp -v "$docs_pdf" "$out/doc/${name}/${docs_pdf.name}"
+    cp -v "$docs_docx" "$out/doc/${name}/${docs_docx.name}"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Basic Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and many Symbol blocks of Unicode...";
+
+    # In lieu of a licence:
+    # Fonts in this site are offered free for any use;
+    # they may be installed, embedded, opened, edited, modified, regenerated, posted, packaged and redistributed.
+    license = "Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts";
+
+    homepage = http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c3feabd770f1..704d1bf6cc4c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7367,6 +7367,8 @@ let
 
   stdmanpages = callPackage ../data/documentation/std-man-pages { };
 
+  symbola = callPackage ../data/fonts/symbola { };
+
   iana_etc = callPackage ../data/misc/iana-etc { };
 
   poppler_data = callPackage ../data/misc/poppler-data { };