diff --git a/tools/.gitignore b/tools/.gitignore
index 150c61ceb3..e6ead216b6 100644
--- a/tools/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/.gitignore
@@ -7,7 +7,5 @@
 /gimptool-2.00.exe
 /gimp-test-clipboard-2.99
 /gimp-test-clipboard-2.99.exe
-/invert-svg
-/invert-svg.exe
 /compute-svg-viewbox
 /compute-svg-viewbox.exe
diff --git a/tools/Makefile.am b/tools/Makefile.am
index 84568cb535..2dbcb89fd6 100644
--- a/tools/Makefile.am
+++ b/tools/Makefile.am
@@ -45,10 +45,6 @@ kernelgen_SOURCES = kernelgen.c
 
 
 if ENABLE_VECTOR_ICONS
-invert-svg$(BUILD_EXEEXT): invert-svg.c
-	$(CC_FOR_BUILD) -fPIC -o $@ $< $(NATIVE_GLIB_LIBS) $(CPPFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) $(CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) $(LDFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) $(NATIVE_GLIB_CFLAGS)
-
-
 # compute_svg_viewbox is not built or used because librsvg is just too buggy
 # right now. But we keep the code around. The goal of this build tool will be
 # to be able to extract SVG icons from a single SVG file at build time, rather
@@ -60,9 +56,9 @@ invert-svg$(BUILD_EXEEXT): invert-svg.c
 #compute_svg_viewbox_LDADD = $(SVG_LIBS)
 
 # Build tools which must be built for the host platform.
-all-local: invert-svg$(BUILD_EXEEXT)
+#all-local: compute-svg-viewbox$(BUILD_EXEEXT)
 
-DISTCLEANFILES = invert-svg$(BUILD_EXEEXT)
+#DISTCLEANFILES = compute-svg-viewbox$(BUILD_EXEEXT)
 endif
 
 AM_CPPFLAGS = \
@@ -102,5 +98,4 @@ AM_LDFLAGS = \
 EXTRA_DIST = \
 	defcheck.py	\
 	gimp-mkenums	\
-	gimppath2svg.py	\
-	invert-svg.c
+	gimppath2svg.py
diff --git a/tools/invert-svg.c b/tools/invert-svg.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 551a438017..0000000000
--- a/tools/invert-svg.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,107 +0,0 @@
-/* invert-svg-grey.c
- * Copyright (C) 2016 Jehan
- *
- * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- */
-
-#include <gio/gio.h>
-#include <glib/gprintf.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <string.h>
-
-/* This tool inverts grey colors in a SVG image.
- * Non-grey colors are not touched, since they are considered
- * exceptions that we would want to keep the same (for instance
- * Red, Blue or Green channel representations).
- *
- * It is not based off XML knowledge since colors could appear in
- * various fields. Instead we just assume that a color has the XML
- * format "#RRGGBB" and we use regular expression to update these.
- */
-static gboolean
-invert_rgb_color (const GMatchInfo *info,
-                  GString          *res,
-                  gpointer          data)
-{
-  gchar *match;
-  gchar *inverted;
-  gint   value;
-
-  /* We only invert grey colors, so we just need the first channel. */
-  match = g_match_info_fetch (info, 1);
-  value = strtol (match, NULL, 16);
-  value = 255 - value;
-  inverted = g_strdup_printf ("#%02x%02x%02x",
-                              value, value, value);
-
-  g_string_append (res, inverted);
-  g_free (inverted);
-  g_free (match);
-
-  return FALSE;
-}
-
-int main (int argc, char **argv)
-{
-  gchar  *input;
-  gchar  *output;
-  GFile  *file;
-  gchar  *contents;
-  gchar  *replaced;
-  GRegex *regex;
-  gint    retval = 0;
-
-  if (argc != 3)
-    {
-      g_fprintf (stderr, "Usage: invert-svg svg-image inverted-svg-output\n");
-      return 1;
-    }
-  input  = argv[1];
-  output = argv[2];
-
-  file = g_file_new_for_path (input);
-  if (! g_file_load_contents (file, NULL, &contents, NULL, NULL, NULL))
-    {
-      g_fprintf (stderr,
-                 "Error: invert-svg could not load contents of file %s.\n",
-                 input);
-      g_object_unref (file);
-      return 1;
-    }
-  g_object_unref (file);
-
-  /* Replace grey colors only. */
-  regex = g_regex_new ("#([0-9a-fA-F]{2}){3}\\b", 0, 0, NULL);
-  replaced = g_regex_replace_eval (regex, contents, -1, 0, 0,
-                                   invert_rgb_color, NULL, NULL);
-
-  file = g_file_new_for_path (output);
-  if (! g_file_replace_contents (file, replaced, strlen (replaced),
-                                 NULL, FALSE,
-                                 G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION,
-                                 NULL, NULL, NULL))
-    {
-      g_fprintf (stderr,
-                 "Error: invert-svg could not save file %s.\n",
-                 output);
-      retval = 1;
-    }
-
-  g_object_unref (file);
-  g_free (contents);
-  g_free (replaced);
-  g_regex_unref (regex);
-
-  return retval;
-}