diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/no/noto-fonts-color-emoji/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/no/noto-fonts-color-emoji/package.nix
index 39862609e894..d5a9874ded54 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/no/noto-fonts-color-emoji/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/no/noto-fonts-color-emoji/package.nix
@@ -7,18 +7,11 @@
   cairo,
   imagemagick,
   zopfli,
+  nototools,
   pngquant,
   which,
 }:
 
-let
-  emojiPythonEnv = buildPackages.python3.withPackages (
-    p: with p; [
-      fonttools
-      nototools
-    ]
-  );
-in
 stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "noto-fonts-color-emoji";
   version = "2.047";
@@ -39,9 +32,10 @@ stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     imagemagick
     zopfli
+    nototools
     pngquant
     which
-    emojiPythonEnv
+    buildPackages.python3.pkgs.fonttools
   ];
 
   postPatch = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/nototools/default.nix b/pkgs/by-name/no/nototools/package.nix
similarity index 68%
rename from pkgs/development/python-modules/nototools/default.nix
rename to pkgs/by-name/no/nototools/package.nix
index 3f8c679d2a4b..26d1e7348b5f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/nototools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/no/nototools/package.nix
@@ -1,45 +1,14 @@
 {
   fetchFromGitHub,
   lib,
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  pythonOlder,
-  afdko,
-  appdirs,
-  attrs,
-  booleanoperations,
-  brotlipy,
-  click,
-  defcon,
-  fontmath,
-  fontparts,
-  fontpens,
-  fonttools,
-  lxml,
-  mutatormath,
-  pathspec,
-  psautohint,
-  pyclipper,
-  pytz,
-  regex,
-  scour,
-  toml,
-  typed-ast,
-  ufonormalizer,
-  ufoprocessor,
-  unicodedata2,
-  zopfli,
-  pillow,
-  six,
   bash,
-  setuptools-scm,
+  python3Packages,
 }:
 
-buildPythonPackage rec {
+python3Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
   pname = "nototools";
   version = "0.2.20";
 
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
-
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "googlefonts";
     repo = "nototools";
@@ -51,9 +20,9 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     sed -i 's/use_scm_version=.*,/version="${version}",/' setup.py
   '';
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ setuptools-scm ];
+  build-system = with python3Packages; [ setuptools-scm ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+  dependencies = with python3Packages; [
     afdko
     appdirs
     attrs
@@ -82,8 +51,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   ];
 
   nativeCheckInputs = [
-    pillow
-    six
+    python3Packages.pillow
+    python3Packages.six
     bash
   ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/tw/twitter-color-emoji/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/tw/twitter-color-emoji/package.nix
index 5ddcb8a7d613..ae999224b791 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/tw/twitter-color-emoji/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/tw/twitter-color-emoji/package.nix
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   fetchFromGitHub,
   cairo,
   imagemagick,
+  nototools,
   pkg-config,
   pngquant,
   python3,
@@ -25,14 +26,6 @@ let
     rev = "v${version}";
     hash = "sha256-FLOqXDpSFyClBlG5u3IRL0EKeu1mckCfRizJh++IWxo=";
   };
-
-  pythonEnv = python3.withPackages (
-    ps: with ps; [
-      fonttools
-      nototools
-    ]
-  );
-
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "twitter-color-emoji";
@@ -52,10 +45,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     cairo
+    python3.pkgs.fonttools
     imagemagick
+    nototools
     pkg-config
     pngquant
-    pythonEnv
     which
     zopfli
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/wh/whatsapp-emoji-font/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/wh/whatsapp-emoji-font/package.nix
index d83050188c99..cde77df69bcd 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/wh/whatsapp-emoji-font/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/wh/whatsapp-emoji-font/package.nix
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
   fetchFromGitHub,
   imagemagick,
   nix-update-script,
+  nototools,
   pngquant,
-  python3Packages,
   which,
   zopfli,
 }:
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     imagemagick
+    nototools
     pngquant
-    python3Packages.nototools
     which
     zopfli
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 764bab2093a5..48f36fe8e1eb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10123,8 +10123,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   notobuilder = callPackage ../development/python-modules/notobuilder { };
 
-  nototools = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nototools { };
-
   notus-scanner = callPackage ../development/python-modules/notus-scanner { };
 
   nox = callPackage ../development/python-modules/nox { };