diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 406592e..f549d3e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ Suggests:
     rnaturalearthhires,
     rredlist,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
-    viridis,
     wdpar
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 Depends:
@@ -65,7 +64,8 @@ Imports:
     tidyr,
     tidyselect,
     units,
-    vctrs
+    vctrs,
+    viridis
 Remotes: 
     github::emlab-ucsb/oceandatr,
     github::emlab-ucsb/spatialgridr,
diff --git a/R/splnr_featureRep.R b/R/splnr_featureRep.R
index 291024e..f298c5a 100644
--- a/R/splnr_featureRep.R
+++ b/R/splnr_featureRep.R
@@ -499,12 +499,6 @@ splnr_plot_featureRep <- function(df,
   }
 
 
-  # Check if 'viridis' package is installed. If not, stop with an informative error.
-  if (requireNamespace("viridis", quietly = TRUE) == FALSE){
-    stop("To run splnr_plot_featureRep you will need to install the 'viridis' package: install.packages('viridis').")
-  }
-
-
   if (renameFeatures == TRUE) {
     # No assertthat::assert_that(is.data.frame(namesToReplace)) needed here,
     # as it's covered by the initial assertthat block.