diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index e08c05ac0177..4d284d843639 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -774,7 +774,9 @@ self: super: {
   diagrams-braille = doJailbreak super.diagrams-braille;
 
   # https://github.com/timbod7/haskell-chart/pull/231#issuecomment-953745932
-  Chart-diagrams = doJailbreak super.Chart-diagrams;
+  Chart-diagrams = doJailbreak (super.Chart-diagrams.override {
+    SVGFonts = super.SVGFonts_1_7_0_1;
+  });
 
   # https://github.com/xu-hao/namespace/issues/1
   namespace = doJailbreak super.namespace;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml
index 520d985c1bc3..f449454b87c2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ extra-packages:
   - weeder == 2.2.*                     # 2022-02-21: preserve for GHC 8.10.7
   - attoparsec == 0.13.*                # 2022-02-23: Needed to compile elm for now
   - relude == 0.7.0.0                   # 2022-02-25: Needed for ema 0.6
+  - SVGFonts < 1.8                      # 2022-03-19: Needed for Chart-diagrams 1.9.3
 
 package-maintainers:
   abbradar:
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
index ce5cfb83fe33..278987d6769b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
@@ -17883,6 +17883,29 @@ self: {
        hydraPlatforms = lib.platforms.none;
      }) {};
 
+  "SVGFonts_1_7_0_1" = callPackage
+    ({ mkDerivation, attoparsec, base, blaze-markup, blaze-svg
+     , bytestring, cereal, cereal-vector, containers, data-default-class
+     , diagrams-core, diagrams-lib, directory, parsec, split, text
+     , vector, xml
+     }:
+     mkDerivation {
+       pname = "SVGFonts";
+       version = "1.7.0.1";
+       sha256 = "06vnpkkr19s9b1wjp7l2w29vr7fsghcrffd2knlxvdhjacrfpc9h";
+       revision = "2";
+       editedCabalFile = "0q731cyrqq1csbid9nxh2bj6rf8yss017lz9j9zk22bw3bymzb0s";
+       enableSeparateDataOutput = true;
+       libraryHaskellDepends = [
+         attoparsec base blaze-markup blaze-svg bytestring cereal
+         cereal-vector containers data-default-class diagrams-core
+         diagrams-lib directory parsec split text vector xml
+       ];
+       description = "Fonts from the SVG-Font format";
+       license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+       hydraPlatforms = lib.platforms.none;
+     }) {};
+
   "SVGFonts" = callPackage
     ({ mkDerivation, attoparsec, base, blaze-markup, blaze-svg
      , bytestring, cereal, cereal-vector, containers, data-default-class