diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/tw/twemoji-color-font-src/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/tw/twemoji-color-font-src/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ff2d208fb6ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/tw/twemoji-color-font-src/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  nix-update-script,
+  twemoji-color-font,
+  imagemagick,
+  inkscape,
+  nodePackages,
+  potrace,
+  scfbuild,
+  which,
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "twemoji-color-font";
+  version = "15.1.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "13rac1";
+    repo = "twemoji-color-font";
+    rev = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-Nx6zyj6FLFFyWz0vbbN3eYk2WRns7IVG6lDvLOmSf6E=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    imagemagick
+    inkscape
+    nodePackages.svgo
+    potrace
+    scfbuild
+    which
+  ];
+
+  # silence inkscape errors about non-writable home
+  preBuild = "export HOME=\"$NIX_BUILD_ROOT\"";
+  buildFlags = [
+    "SCFBUILD=${scfbuild}/bin/scfbuild"
+    "linux-package"
+  ];
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+    install -Dm755 build/TwitterColorEmoji-SVGinOT.ttf $out/share/fonts/truetype/TwitterColorEmoji-SVGinOT.ttf
+    install -Dm644 linux/fontconfig/46-twemoji-color.conf $out/etc/fonts/conf.d/46-twemoji-color.conf
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script { };
+
+  meta = {
+    inherit (twemoji-color-font.meta)
+      description
+      longDescription
+      homepage
+      downloadPage
+      license
+      ;
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.ncfavier ];
+    hydraPlatforms = [ ]; # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/97871
+  };
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/tw/twemoji-color-font/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/tw/twemoji-color-font/package.nix
index 570630b5a683..f3db120f1c8c 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/tw/twemoji-color-font/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/tw/twemoji-color-font/package.nix
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script { };
 
   meta = {
-    description = "Color emoji SVGinOT font using Twitter Unicode 10 emoji with diversity and country flags";
+    description = "Color emoji SVGinOT font using Twitter Unicode 15 emoji with diversity and country flags";
     longDescription = ''
       A color and B&W emoji SVGinOT font built from the Twitter Emoji for
       Everyone artwork with support for ZWJ, skin tone diversity and country