diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 60b281de..a6853d6b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2455,7 +2455,7 @@ name = "iced_highlighter"
 version = "0.14.0-dev"
 dependencies = [
  "iced_core",
- "syntect",
+ "two-face",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -6216,6 +6216,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "utf-8",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "two-face"
+version = "0.4.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3d112cfd41c1387546416bcf49c4ae2a1fcacda0d42c9e97120e9798c90c0923"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+ "serde_derive",
+ "syntect",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "typenum"
 version = "1.19.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7b92ddaf..08242e8f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -221,12 +221,12 @@ sipper = "0.1"
 smol = "2"
 smol_str = "0.2"
 softbuffer = { version = "0.4", default-features = false }
-syntect = { version = "5", default-features = false, features = ["default-fancy"] }
 sysinfo = "0.33"
 thiserror = "2"
 tiny-skia = { version = "0.11", default-features = false, features = ["std", "simd"] }
 tokio = "1.0"
 tracing = "0.1"
+two-face = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["syntect-default-fancy"] }
 unicode-segmentation = "1.0"
 url = "2.5"
 wasm-bindgen-futures = "0.4"
diff --git a/highlighter/Cargo.toml b/highlighter/Cargo.toml
index 4c20a678..664b6940 100644
--- a/highlighter/Cargo.toml
+++ b/highlighter/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ workspace = true
 [dependencies]
 iced_core.workspace = true
 
-syntect.workspace = true
+two-face.workspace = true
diff --git a/highlighter/src/lib.rs b/highlighter/src/lib.rs
index 982f1279..3066f362 100644
--- a/highlighter/src/lib.rs
+++ b/highlighter/src/lib.rs
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 use syntect::highlighting;
 use syntect::parsing;
+use two_face::re_exports::syntect;
 
 static SYNTAXES: LazyLock<parsing::SyntaxSet> =
-    LazyLock::new(parsing::SyntaxSet::load_defaults_nonewlines);
+    LazyLock::new(two_face::syntax::extra_no_newlines);
 
 static THEMES: LazyLock<highlighting::ThemeSet> =
     LazyLock::new(highlighting::ThemeSet::load_defaults);