diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 95f2f9622a2..4fa7cdfa35d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ itertools = "0.12"
 jemallocator = "0.5.4"
 jemalloc-sys = "0.5.4"
 keyboard-types = "0.6"
-layout_traits = { path = "components/shared/layout" }
 lazy_static = "1.4"
 libc = "0.2"
 log = "0.4"
diff --git a/docs/ORGANIZATION.md b/docs/ORGANIZATION.md
index dfd0b484264..4d543b583c8 100644
--- a/docs/ORGANIZATION.md
+++ b/docs/ORGANIZATION.md
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@
     * Converts page content into positioned, styled boxes and passes the result to the renderer.
   * layout_thread
     * Runs the threads for layout, communicates with the script thread, and calls into the layout crate to do the layout.
-  * layout_traits
-    * APIs to the layout crate for crates that don't want to depend on the layout crate for build speed reasons.
   * msg
     * Shared APIs for communicating between specific threads and crates.
   * net