diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ed9981b..b3f8dd8 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ Imports:
     rlang (>= 1.1.0)
 Suggests:
     covr,
-    crayon,
     knitr,
     lintr (>= 3.1.0),
     rmarkdown,
diff --git a/R/deprecate.R b/R/deprecate.R
index a4eef24..bfe4e91 100644
--- a/R/deprecate.R
+++ b/R/deprecate.R
@@ -281,7 +281,9 @@ deprecate_warn0 <- function(
     if (is_interactive()) {
       footer <- c(
         footer,
-        if (!always) silver("This warning is displayed once per session."),
+        if (!always) {
+          cli::col_silver("This warning is displayed once per session.")
+        },
         cli::format_inline(cli::col_silver(
           "Call {.run lifecycle::last_lifecycle_warnings()} to see where this warning was generated."
         ))
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index 87cedb4..549e8a7 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -10,23 +10,6 @@ paste_line <- function(...) {
   paste(chr(...), collapse = "\n")
 }
 
-# nocov start
-has_crayon <- function() {
-  is_installed("crayon") && crayon::has_color()
-}
-red <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::red(x) else x
-blue <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::blue(x) else x
-green <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::green(x) else x
-yellow <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::yellow(x) else x
-magenta <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::magenta(x) else x
-cyan <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::cyan(x) else x
-blurred <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::blurred(x) else x
-silver <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::silver(x) else x
-bold <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::bold(x) else x
-italic <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::italic(x) else x
-underline <- function(x) if (has_crayon()) crayon::underline(x) else x
-# nocov end
-
 pkg_url_bug <- function(pkg) {
   # First check that package is installed, e.g. in case of
   # runtime-only namespace created by pkgload
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-warning.R b/tests/testthat/test-warning.R
index 2a4884a..7bf1396 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-warning.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-warning.R
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ test_that("deprecation warning is displayed with backtrace", {
 
   local_options(
     rlang_trace_top_env = current_env(),
-    rlang_trace_format_srcrefs = FALSE,
-    crayon.enabled = FALSE
+    rlang_trace_format_srcrefs = FALSE
   )
 
   f <- function() g()