diff --git a/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-emoji/template b/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-emoji/template
index 9d5c176ce1..6a7812700b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-emoji/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/noto-fonts-emoji/template
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 # Template file for 'noto-fonts-emoji'
 pkgname=noto-fonts-emoji
-version=20200722
-revision=2
-_githash=d5e261484286d33a1fe8a02676f5907ecc02106f
-wrksrc="noto-emoji-${_githash}"
+version=20200916
+revision=1
+# fix suffix as appropriate for new versions
+_suffix=unicode13_1
+_ver=${version:0:4}-${version:4:2}-${version:6:2}
+wrksrc="noto-emoji-${_ver}-${_suffix}"
 depends="font-util"
 short_desc="Google Noto Emoji Fonts"
 maintainer="Peter Bui <pnutzh4x0r@gmail.com>"
 license="OFL-1.1"
 homepage="https://www.google.com/get/noto/"
-distfiles="https://codeload.github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/tar.gz/${_githash}>${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=351a0a77b20262a4272fe19af3380be3fa81694e7f4d1f387750f7ff3040d86b
+distfiles="https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/archive/refs/tags/v${_ver}-${_suffix}.tar.gz"
+checksum=13ad521b42e395751c72c0bf5585bd354d2383c65abe1a6227743fa8661e0feb
 font_dirs="/usr/share/fonts/noto"
 
 do_install() {