diff --git a/src/_bin.ts b/src/_bin.ts
index c77471f18..937a48ac9 100644
--- a/src/_bin.ts
+++ b/src/_bin.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { inspect } from 'util'
 import arrify = require('arrify')
 import Module = require('module')
 import minimist = require('minimist')
-import chalk = require('chalk')
+import chalk from 'chalk'
 import { diffLines } from 'diff'
 import { Script } from 'vm'
 import { register, VERSION, getFile, fileExists, TSError, parse, printError } from './index'
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 265186bc0..aaf466ddf 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { relative, basename, extname, resolve, dirname, join } from 'path'
 import { writeFileSync, readFileSync, statSync } from 'fs'
 import { EOL, tmpdir, homedir } from 'os'
 import sourceMapSupport = require('source-map-support')
-import chalk = require('chalk')
+import chalk from 'chalk'
 import mkdirp = require('mkdirp')
 import crypto = require('crypto')
 import yn = require('yn')