diff --git a/configuration.nix b/configuration.nix
index e03c8a2fb983ec5edf81108eb7e52f024f1009db..d0857a79de0e9f3219172ba46cc7e81ebe35d5a8 100644
--- a/configuration.nix
+++ b/configuration.nix
@@ -16,5 +16,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
   text-icu = prev.callPackage ./pkgs/text-icu.nix { icu-i18n = pkgs.icu; };
 
+  X11-xft = addPkgconfigDepends prev.X11-xft [ pkgs.expat pkgs.xorg.libXau pkgs.xorg.libXdmcp ];
+
   zlib = prev.callPackage ./pkgs/zlib.nix { inherit (pkgs) zlib; };
 }
diff --git a/horizon.dhall b/horizon.dhall
index 43c538fba399ccf08d7303693ee75cd4f4527ac3..4a723fd2d5b0ad4f2381f3d2d2cd95bdcb63554c 100644
--- a/horizon.dhall
+++ b/horizon.dhall
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ in  H.HorizonExport.MakePackageSet
           , H.callHackage "QuickCheck" "2.14.2"
           , H.callHackage "SHA" "1.6.4.4"
           , H.callHackage "StateVar" "1.2.2"
+          , H.callHackage "X11-xft" "0.3.4"
           , H.callHackage "X11" "1.10.3"
           , H.callHackage "abstract-deque" "0.3"
           , H.callHackage "abstract-par" "0.3.3"
diff --git a/initial-packages.nix b/initial-packages.nix
index 1c71b24694bbbbff05ac3f1ca92234a06a521d4d..55ca7261ffa0e37b608b3d9a51e1b86fb0b339bf 100644
--- a/initial-packages.nix
+++ b/initial-packages.nix
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ self: with pkgs.haskell.lib; {
 
   X11 = self.callPackage (./pkgs/X11.nix) { };
 
+  X11-xft = self.callPackage (./pkgs/X11-xft.nix) { };
+
   abstract-deque = self.callPackage (./pkgs/abstract-deque.nix) { };
 
   abstract-par = self.callPackage (./pkgs/abstract-par.nix) { };
diff --git a/pkgs/X11-xft.nix b/pkgs/X11-xft.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..584196b3314853f40526545485ab0da3bcdd7cde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/X11-xft.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ mkDerivation, X11, base, lib, libXft, utf8-string }:
+mkDerivation {
+  pname = "X11-xft";
+  version = "0.3.4";
+  sha256 = "6200d2deabe9638bad4d1fed4399e3147254c2776a0fae71bf38ca423242a916";
+  isLibrary = true;
+  isExecutable = false;
+  enableSeparateDataOutput = false;
+  libraryHaskellDepends = [ base utf8-string X11 ];
+  libraryPkgconfigDepends = [ libXft ];
+  enableLibraryProfiling = true;
+  enableExecutableProfiling = true;
+  doHaddock = false;
+  jailbreak = true;
+  doCheck = false;
+  doBenchmark = false;
+  hyperlinkSource = false;
+  description = "Bindings to the Xft and some Xrender parts";
+  license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+  broken = false;
+}