diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 814f295..d9781e8 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@
 
 import os
 import sys
-
-from pkg_resources import get_distribution
+from importlib.metadata import version as get_version
 
 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # get version using setuptools-scm
-release = get_distribution("pydecorate").version
+release = get_version("pydecorate")
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 # for example take major/minor
 version = ".".join(release.split(".")[:2])
diff --git a/pydecorate/decorator_agg.py b/pydecorate/decorator_agg.py
index ba3514e..2fcbd94 100644
--- a/pydecorate/decorator_agg.py
+++ b/pydecorate/decorator_agg.py
@@ -17,11 +17,14 @@
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 """Aggdraw-based image decoration class."""
 
+from pathlib import Path
+
 import aggdraw
-from pkg_resources import resource_filename
 
 from pydecorate.decorator_base import DecoratorBase
 
+HERE = Path(__file__).parent
+
 
 class DecoratorAGG(DecoratorBase):
     """Aggdraw-based image decoration class."""
@@ -30,8 +33,8 @@ def add_scale(self, colormap, **kwargs):
         self._add_scale(colormap, **kwargs)
 
     def _load_default_font(self):
-        font_path = resource_filename("pydecorate.fonts", "DejaVuSerif.ttf")
-        return aggdraw.Font("black", font_path, size=16)
+        font_path = HERE / "fonts" / "DejaVuSerif.ttf"
+        return aggdraw.Font("black", font_path.as_posix(), size=16)
 
     def _load_font(self):
         try:
diff --git a/pydecorate/fonts/__init__.py b/pydecorate/fonts/__init__.py
index d47c660..e69de29 100644
--- a/pydecorate/fonts/__init__.py
+++ b/pydecorate/fonts/__init__.py
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-# Need this directory to be a module so that pkg_resources.resource_filename properly finds it
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5982f66..bebfa05 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     packages=["pydecorate"],
     include_package_data=True,
     package_data={"pydecorate": ["fonts/*.ttf"]},
-    install_requires=["pillow", "aggdraw", "numpy", "setuptools"],
+    install_requires=["pillow", "aggdraw", "numpy"],
     setup_requires=["setuptools_scm", "setuptools_scm_git_archive"],
     scripts=[],
     data_files=[],