diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index eec0407cf..f8c8d8855 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ URL: https://pillar.r-lib.org/, https://github.com/r-lib/pillar
 BugReports: https://github.com/r-lib/pillar/issues
 Imports: 
     cli (>= 2.3.0),
-    fansi,
     glue,
     lifecycle,
     rlang (>= 1.0.2),
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 471963e14..bd642ddc3 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -159,11 +159,12 @@ export(tbl_sum)
 export(type_sum)
 import(lifecycle)
 import(rlang)
+importFrom(cli,ansi_strip)
+importFrom(cli,ansi_strwrap)
+importFrom(cli,ansi_substr)
 importFrom(cli,symbol)
-importFrom(fansi,strip_sgr)
-importFrom(fansi,substr2_ctl)
+importFrom(cli,utf8_nchar)
 importFrom(glue,as_glue)
-importFrom(utf8,utf8_width)
 importFrom(utils,head)
 importFrom(utils,str)
 importFrom(vctrs,data_frame)
diff --git a/R/extent.R b/R/extent.R
index e6956dce2..fc65cb2cd 100644
--- a/R/extent.R
+++ b/R/extent.R
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
 #'
 #' @param x A character vector.
 #' @export
-#' @importFrom fansi strip_sgr
-#' @importFrom utf8 utf8_width
+#' @importFrom cli ansi_strip
+#' @importFrom cli utf8_nchar
 #' @examples
 #' get_extent(c("abc", "de"))
 #' get_extent("\u904b\u6c23")
 get_extent <- function(x) {
   force(x)
-  x <- strip_sgr(x, warn = FALSE)
-  width <- utf8_width(x, encode = FALSE, utf8 = TRUE)
+  x <- ansi_strip(x)
+  width <- utf8_nchar(x, "width")
   if (anyNA(width)) {
     is_na <- which(is.na(width))
     width[is_na] <- nchar(x[is_na], type = "width")
diff --git a/R/ggplot2.R b/R/ggplot2.R
index e32401fe4..f7e336c02 100644
--- a/R/ggplot2.R
+++ b/R/ggplot2.R
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ scale_x_num <- function(..., position = "bottom", guide = ggplot2::waiver(),
                         rescaler = NULL, super = NULL) {
   stopifnot(is.null(rescaler))
   stopifnot(is.null(super))
-  stopifnot(is_installed("ggplot2"))
+  check_installed("ggplot2")
   ggplot2::continuous_scale(
-    c(
+    aesthetics =  c(
       "x", "xmin", "xmax", "xend", "xintercept", "xmin_final", "xmax_final",
       "xlower", "xmiddle", "xupper"
     ),
-    "position_c", identity,
+    palette = "position_c",
     ...,
     guide = guide,
     position = position,
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ scale_y_num <- function(..., guide = ggplot2::waiver(),
                         rescaler = NULL, super = NULL) {
   stopifnot(is.null(rescaler))
   stopifnot(is.null(super))
-  stopifnot(is_installed("ggplot2"))
+  check_installed("ggplot2")
   ggplot2::continuous_scale(
-    c(
+    aesthetics = c(
       "y", "ymin", "ymax", "yend", "yintercept", "ymin_final", "ymax_final",
       "lower", "middle", "upper"
     ),
-    "position_c", identity,
+    palette = "position_c",
     ...,
     guide = guide,
     rescaler = scales::rescale,
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ MakeScaleContinuousPositionNum <- function() {
     },
     get_labels = function(self, breaks = self$get_breaks()) {
       out <- ggplot2::ggproto_parent(ggplot2::ScaleContinuousPosition, self)$get_labels(breaks)
-      fansi::strip_sgr(out)
+      ansi_strip(out)
     },
     make_title = function(self, title) {
       out <- ggplot2::ggproto_parent(ggplot2::ScaleContinuousPosition, self)$make_title(title)
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ MakeScaleContinuousPositionNum <- function() {
         if (pillar_attr$notation == "si") {
           type <- attr(shaft, "type")
           if (!is.null(type)) {
-            out <- paste0(out, " ", cli::ansi_strip(type[[1]]))
+            out <- paste0(out, " ", ansi_strip(type[[1]]))
           }
         } else {
           # paste0() doesn't work here, paste() works like paste0()
diff --git a/R/pillar.R b/R/pillar.R
index 6ac0f85af..6212099cf 100644
--- a/R/pillar.R
+++ b/R/pillar.R
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ pillar_format_parts <- function(x, width, ...) {
 }
 
 format_abbrev <- function(x, title = NULL, space = " ") {
-  type_format <- fansi::strip_ctl(format_full_pillar_type(x))
+  type_format <- ansi_strip(format_full_pillar_type(x))
   if (is.null(title)) {
     type_format
   } else {
diff --git a/R/tbl-format.R b/R/tbl-format.R
index 005636f2c..ef44d3da4 100644
--- a/R/tbl-format.R
+++ b/R/tbl-format.R
@@ -92,5 +92,5 @@ wrap <- function(..., indent = 0, prefix = "", width) {
 }
 
 strwrap2 <- function(x, width, indent) {
-  fansi::strwrap_ctl(x, width = max(width, 0), indent = indent, exdent = indent + 2)
+  cli::ansi_strwrap(x, width = max(width, 0), indent = indent, exdent = indent + 2, simplify = FALSE)
 }
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index dcc02136b..9618fc8bc 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ cat_line <- function(...) {
   cat(..., "\n", sep = "")
 }
 
-#' @importFrom utf8 utf8_width
-#' @importFrom fansi strip_sgr substr2_ctl
+#' @importFrom cli ansi_substr
 str_trunc <- function(x, width, shorten = NULL) {
   if (all(is.infinite(width))) {
     return(x)
@@ -34,32 +33,34 @@ str_trunc <- function(x, width, shorten = NULL) {
 }
 
 str_add_ellipsis <- function(x, str_width, width, shorten) {
-  if (is.null(shorten)) {
-    shorten <- "back"
+  if (length(x) == 0L) {
+    return(x)
   }
+  shorten <- shorten %||% "back"
 
-  switch(shorten,
+  thing <- switch(shorten,
     back = {
-      abbr <- substr2_ctl(x, 1, width - 1, type = "width")
+      abbr <- ansi_substr(x, 1, width - 1)
       paste0(abbr, get_ellipsis())
     },
     untick = str_add_ellipsis_untick(x, str_width, width),
     untick_footnote = str_add_ellipsis_untick(x, str_width, width, footnote = TRUE),
     front = {
-      abbr <- substr2_ctl(x, str_width - width + 2, str_width, type = "width")
+      abbr <- ansi_substr(x, str_width - width + 2, str_width)
       paste0(get_ellipsis(), abbr)
     },
     mid = {
       front_width <- ceiling(width / 2) - 1
       back_width <- width - front_width - 1
-      abbr_front <- substr2_ctl(x, 1, front_width, type = "width")
-      abbr_back <- substr2_ctl(x, str_width - back_width + 1, str_width, type = "width")
+      abbr_front <- ansi_substr(x, 1, front_width)
+      abbr_back <- ansi_substr(x, str_width - back_width + 1, str_width)
       paste0(abbr_front, get_ellipsis(), abbr_back)
     },
     abbreviate = {
       abbreviate(x, minlength = width, strict = TRUE)
     }
   )
+  thing
 }
 
 str_add_ellipsis_untick <- function(x, str_width, width, footnote = FALSE) {
@@ -78,7 +79,8 @@ str_add_ellipsis_untick <- function(x, str_width, width, footnote = FALSE) {
   }
 
   # Add ellipsis even if short enough after removal of ticks
-  abbr <- substr2_ctl(x, 1, width - 1L, type = "width")
+  # TODO use ansi_strim()
+  abbr <- ansi_substr(x, 1, width - 1L)
   abbr <- paste0(abbr, get_ellipsis())
 
   if (footnote) {
diff --git a/R/vctr.R b/R/vctr.R
index 6a11b79b0..9f26a86a2 100644
--- a/R/vctr.R
+++ b/R/vctr.R
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ obj_print_data.pillar_vctr <- function(x, ..., .size) {
   }
 
   # FIXME: base::print.default() can't use color, roll own implementation?
-  out <- stats::setNames(strip_sgr(format(x), warn = FALSE), names(x))
+  out <- stats::setNames(ansi_strip(format(x)), names(x))
   print(out, quote = FALSE, max = vec_size(x))
   invisible(x)
 }
diff --git a/R/zzz.R b/R/zzz.R
index 5e739e095..6dc6257c1 100644
--- a/R/zzz.R
+++ b/R/zzz.R
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 #' @importFrom vctrs vec_restore
 #' @importFrom vctrs vec_size
 #' @importFrom vctrs vec_slice
-#' @importFrom cli symbol
+#' @importFrom cli symbol ansi_strwrap
 NULL
 
 # https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdown/issues/1540