diff --git a/system/fonts.nix b/system/fonts.nix
index 2e6f5ee3d2ee..75906d3e8c7b 100644
--- a/system/fonts.nix
+++ b/system/fonts.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{pkgs , config}:
+{pkgs, config}:
 
 [
   # - the user's .fonts directory
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
   pkgs.xorg.fontbh100dpi
   pkgs.xorg.fontmiscmisc
   pkgs.xorg.fontcursormisc
-] ++
-((config.get ["fonts" "extraFonts"]) pkgs)
+]
 
+++ pkgs.lib.optional (config.get ["fonts" "enableGhostscriptFonts"]) "${pkgs.ghostscript}/share/ghostscript/fonts"
+
+++ ((config.get ["fonts" "extraFonts"]) pkgs)
diff --git a/system/options.nix b/system/options.nix
index 2ee61a00de0b..4da6eb290a90 100644
--- a/system/options.nix
+++ b/system/options.nix
@@ -1109,17 +1109,28 @@ root        ALL=(ALL) SETENV: ALL
 
 
   {
-    name = ["fonts" "enableFontConfig"];
+    name = ["fonts" "enableFontConfig"]; # !!! should be enableFontconfig
     default = true;
     description = "
-      If enabled, a fontconfig configuration file will be built
+      If enabled, a Fontconfig configuration file will be built
       pointing to a set of default fonts.  If you don't care about
       running X11 applications or any other program that uses
-      fontconfig, you can turn this option off and prevent a
+      Fontconfig, you can turn this option off and prevent a
       dependency on all those fonts.
     ";
   }
 
+  {
+    name = ["fonts" "enableGhostscriptFonts"];
+    default = false;
+    description = "
+      Whether to add the fonts provided by Ghostscript (such as
+      various URW fonts and the “Base-14” Postscript fonts) to the
+      list of system fonts, making them available to X11
+      applications.
+    ";
+  }
+
   {
     name = ["fonts" "extraFonts"];
     default = pkgs:[];