diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 81f913e..b0b8537 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 - Fix bug that meant URLs in SVG `<image>` elements were resolved relative to the current working directory, not to the SVG itself (see [#60](https://github.com/flother/spreet/issues/60))
 - Update [resvg](https://crates.io/crates/resvg) dependency to v0.35
 - Update [clap](https://crates.io/crates/clap) dependency to v4.4
-- Update [Rayon](https://crates.io/crates/rayon) dependency to v1.8
+- Remove [Rayon](https://crates.io/crates/rayon) dependency. This means the Spreet CLI no longer parses SVGs in parallel, but that was a fun-but-unnecessary optimisation in the first place that generally saved only a handful of milliseconds
 
 Because of the change to Rayon, Spreet's minimum Rust version is now 1.63.0 (released August 2022).
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 797a804..ee7dcc1 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1028,7 +1028,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "oxipng",
  "png",
  "predicates",
- "rayon",
  "resvg",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b3c6d63..beafdb0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ categories = ["command-line-utilities", "encoding", "filesystem", "graphics"]
 
 [features]
 default = ["cli"]
-cli = ["dep:clap", "dep:exitcode", "dep:rayon"]
+cli = ["dep:clap", "dep:exitcode"]
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4.4", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ exitcode = { version = "1.1", optional = true }
 multimap = "0.9"
 oxipng = { version = "8.0", features = ["parallel", "zopfli", "filetime"], default-features = false }
 png = "0.17"
-rayon = { version = "1.8", optional = true }
 resvg = "0.35"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 50df295..d140e99 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Compared to other tools for creating spritesheets from SVGs, Spreet:
 
 - outputs smaller spritesheets (both fewer pixels and fewer bytes)
 - is a self-contained ~2.2 MB binary
-- is faster (multi-threaded)
+- is faster
 
 _Spreet_ (also _spreit_, _spret_, _sprit_) is the [Scots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language) word for a sprite, the fairy-like creature from Western folklore.
 
diff --git a/src/bin/spreet/main.rs b/src/bin/spreet/main.rs
index 734987f..d776eed 100644
--- a/src/bin/spreet/main.rs
+++ b/src/bin/spreet/main.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 
 use clap::Parser;
-// use rayon::prelude::*;
 
 use spreet::fs::{get_svg_input_paths, load_svg};
 use spreet::sprite;
@@ -21,7 +20,6 @@ fn main() {
     // bitmapped SVGs will be added to the spritesheet, and the keys will be used as the unique
     // sprite ids in the JSON index file.
     let sprites = get_svg_input_paths(&args.input, args.recursive)
-        // .par_iter()
         .iter()
         .map(|svg_path| {
             if let Ok(svg) = load_svg(svg_path) {