diff --git a/stdlib/REPL/src/LineEdit.jl b/stdlib/REPL/src/LineEdit.jl
index 154d6c5c9004d..a4ab039d515bb 100644
--- a/stdlib/REPL/src/LineEdit.jl
+++ b/stdlib/REPL/src/LineEdit.jl
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@ module LineEdit
 import ..REPL
 using REPL: AbstractREPL, Options
 
-# TODO remove after https://github.com/JuliaLang/StyledStrings.jl/pull/17 is merged
-import StyledStrings: Face, loadface!
-import StyledStrings: @styled_str
+import StyledStrings: Face, loadface!, @styled_str
 
 using ..Terminals
 import ..Terminals: raw!, width, height, cmove, getX,
diff --git a/stdlib/REPL/src/REPL.jl b/stdlib/REPL/src/REPL.jl
index 634f271f01a6e..59186f26ff89a 100644
--- a/stdlib/REPL/src/REPL.jl
+++ b/stdlib/REPL/src/REPL.jl
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ Base.Experimental.@max_methods 1
 
 using Base.Meta, Sockets, StyledStrings
 import InteractiveUtils
-using StyledStrings
 
 export
     AbstractREPL,
diff --git a/stdlib/REPL/src/precompile.jl b/stdlib/REPL/src/precompile.jl
index aad5d282108bc..2c3d16019608e 100644
--- a/stdlib/REPL/src/precompile.jl
+++ b/stdlib/REPL/src/precompile.jl
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ finally
     Base._track_dependencies[] = true
 end
 using Base.Meta
-using StyledStrings
 
 import Markdown
 import StyledStrings