diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index da45839a..abf00122 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -17,10 +17,12 @@ addons:
     packages:
       - at-spi2-core
       - libgtk-3-dev
-      - texlive-base
       - xauth
       - xvfb
 
+env:
+  - GKS_ENCODING="utf8"
+
 cache:
   directories:
   - $HOME/.julia/artifacts
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 26d82018..1b164cc1 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ GeometryTypes = "4d00f742-c7ba-57c2-abde-4428a4b178cb"
 Gtk = "4c0ca9eb-093a-5379-98c5-f87ac0bbbf44"
 ImageMagick = "6218d12a-5da1-5696-b52f-db25d2ecc6d1"
 Images = "916415d5-f1e6-5110-898d-aaa5f9f070e0"
-LaTeXStrings = "b964fa9f-0449-5b57-a5c2-d3ea65f4040f"
 LibGit2 = "76f85450-5226-5b5a-8eaa-529ad045b433"
 OffsetArrays = "6fe1bfb0-de20-5000-8ca7-80f57d26f881"
 PGFPlotsX = "8314cec4-20b6-5062-9cdb-752b83310925"
@@ -69,4 +68,4 @@ UnicodePlots = "b8865327-cd53-5732-bb35-84acbb429228"
 VisualRegressionTests = "34922c18-7c2a-561c-bac1-01e79b2c4c92"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["FileIO", "GeometryTypes", "Gtk", "ImageMagick", "Images", "LaTeXStrings", "LibGit2", "OffsetArrays", "PGFPlotsX", "HDF5", "Random", "RDatasets", "StaticArrays", "StatsPlots", "Test", "UnicodePlots", "VisualRegressionTests"]
+test = ["FileIO", "GeometryTypes", "Gtk", "ImageMagick", "Images", "LibGit2", "OffsetArrays", "PGFPlotsX", "HDF5", "Random", "RDatasets", "StaticArrays", "StatsPlots", "Test", "UnicodePlots", "VisualRegressionTests"]
diff --git a/src/examples.jl b/src/examples.jl
index 5ae70450..a1592df8 100644
--- a/src/examples.jl
+++ b/src/examples.jl
@@ -895,13 +895,13 @@ const _examples = PlotExample[
         [
             quote
                 begin
-                    using Plots, LaTeXStrings
+                    using Plots
                     default(
                         titlefont = (20, "times"),
                         legendfontsize = 18,
                         guidefont = (18, :darkgreen),
                         tickfont = (12, :orange),
-                        guide = L"x",
+                        guide = "x",
                         framestyle = :zerolines,
                         yminorgrid = true
                     )
@@ -909,9 +909,9 @@ const _examples = PlotExample[
                         [sin, cos],
                         -2π,
                         2π,
-                        label = [L"sin(\theta)" L"cos(\theta)"],
+                        label = ["sin(θ)" "cos(θ)"],
                         title = "Trigonometric Functions",
-                        xlabel = L"\theta",
+                        xlabel = "θ",
                         linewidth = 2,
                         legend = :outertopleft,
                     )
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index e5c74b58..9b36f097 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ using Gtk
 using LibGit2
 using GeometryTypes
 using Dates
-using LaTeXStrings
 
 include("test_hdf5plots.jl")
 include("test_pgfplotsx.jl")