diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 13e11fc..77fd58d 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Imports:
     ggdensity,
     isoband,
     purrr,
+    rlang,
     sf,
     sfheaders,
     tibble,
@@ -32,8 +33,7 @@ Suggests:
     readr,
     rmarkdown,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
-    tidyr,
-    rlang
+    tidyr
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 Depends: 
     R (>= 2.10)
diff --git a/usethis_hist.R b/usethis_hist.R
index 8cd9911..01d73ed 100644
--- a/usethis_hist.R
+++ b/usethis_hist.R
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ usethis::use_github()
 
 # Dependencies ----
 
-## depends ----
-usethis::use_package("rlang", type = "Depends")
 
 
 ## imports ----
@@ -58,6 +56,7 @@ usethis::use_package("tidyr")
 usethis::use_package("sfheaders")
 usethis::use_package("vctrs")
 usethis::use_package("cli")
+usethis::use_package("rlang")
 
 ## suggests ----
 usethis::use_package("readr", type = "Suggests")