diff --git a/hosts/common/cross.nix b/hosts/common/cross.nix
index bb2cadd9..3e6fdc5c 100644
--- a/hosts/common/cross.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/cross.nix
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ in
             qt6  # "You need to set QT_HOST_PATH to cross compile Qt."
             sequoia  # "/nix/store/q8hg17w47f9xr014g36rdc2gi8fv02qc-clang-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-12.0.1-lib/lib/libclang.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"', /build/sequoia-0.27.0-vendor.tar.gz/bindgen/src/lib.rs:1975:31"
             # splatmoji
-            twitter-color-emoji  # /nix/store/0wk6nr1mryvylf5g5frckjam7g7p9gpi-bash-5.2-p15/bin/bash: line 1: pkg-config: command not found
+            # twitter-color-emoji  # /nix/store/0wk6nr1mryvylf5g5frckjam7g7p9gpi-bash-5.2-p15/bin/bash: line 1: pkg-config: command not found
             visidata  # python3.10-psycopg2 python3.10-pandas python3.10-h5py
             # webkitgtk_4_1  # requires nativeBuildInputs = perl.pkgs.FileCopyRecursive => perl5.36.0-Test-utf8
             # xdg-utils  # perl5.36.0-File-BaseDir / perl5.36.0-Module-Build
diff --git a/hosts/common/default.nix b/hosts/common/default.nix
index ffbd9dde..593fe630 100644
--- a/hosts/common/default.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/default.nix
@@ -42,16 +42,29 @@
 
   fonts = {
     enableDefaultFonts = true;
-    fonts = with pkgs; [ font-awesome twitter-color-emoji hack-font ];
+    fonts = with pkgs; [ font-awesome noto-fonts-emoji hack-font ];
     fontconfig.enable = true;
     fontconfig.defaultFonts = {
-      emoji = [ "Font Awesome 6 Free" "Twitter Color Emoji" ];
+      emoji = [ "Font Awesome 6 Free" "Noto Color Emoji" ];
       monospace = [ "Hack" ];
       serif = [ "DejaVu Serif" ];
       sansSerif = [ "DejaVu Sans" ];
     };
   };
 
+  # XXX: twitter-color-emoji doesn't cross-compile; but not-fonts-emoji does
+  # fonts = {
+  #   enableDefaultFonts = true;
+  #   fonts = with pkgs; [ font-awesome twitter-color-emoji hack-font ];
+  #   fontconfig.enable = true;
+  #   fontconfig.defaultFonts = {
+  #     emoji = [ "Font Awesome 6 Free" "Twitter Color Emoji" ];
+  #     monospace = [ "Hack" ];
+  #     serif = [ "DejaVu Serif" ];
+  #     sansSerif = [ "DejaVu Sans" ];
+  #   };
+  # };
+
   # disable non-required packages like nano, perl, rsync, strace
   environment.defaultPackages = [];