diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index af697de109..3639f4658e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -132,11 +132,11 @@
     "@types/query-string": "~6.2",
     "@types/react": "^16",
     "@types/react-dom": "^16",
-    "@types/styled-components": "~4.1",
     "@types/react-loadable": "~5.5",
     "@types/react-redux": "~7.1",
     "@types/react-test-renderer": "~16.9",
     "@types/serve-static": "~1.15",
+    "@types/styled-components": "~4.1",
     "@types/tiny-async-pool": "~1.0",
     "@types/uuid": "^9",
     "@types/yargs": "~13.0",
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@
     "http-proxy-middleware": "<3",
     "ignore-styles": "~5.0",
     "jest-image-snapshot": "^6",
-    "jest-styled-components": "^6",
     "jest-puppeteer": "^6",
+    "jest-styled-components": "^6",
     "less": "^4.1.3",
     "lighthouse": "^9",
     "node-fetch": "~2.6",
@@ -211,11 +211,6 @@
       "lcovonly"
     ]
   },
-  "babelMacros": {
-    "styledComponents": {
-      "pure": true
-    }
-  },
   "resolutions": {
     "crypto-browserify": "npm:crypto-browserify@^3.12.0"
   }
diff --git a/script/prerender/contentPages.tsx b/script/prerender/contentPages.tsx
index 8b2eddb3f1..f1299b36d1 100644
--- a/script/prerender/contentPages.tsx
+++ b/script/prerender/contentPages.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { renderToString } from 'react-dom/server';
 import Loadable from 'react-loadable';
 import { EnumChangefreq } from 'sitemap';
 import { SitemapItemOptions } from 'sitemap';
-import { ServerStyleSheet, StyleSheetManager } from 'styled-components/macro';
+import { ServerStyleSheet, StyleSheetManager } from 'styled-components';
 import asyncPool from 'tiny-async-pool';
 import createApp from '../../src/app';
 import { AppOptions } from '../../src/app';
diff --git a/src/app/components/ScrollLock.spec.tsx b/src/app/components/ScrollLock.spec.tsx
index b4256387a8..a88e05b0f2 100644
--- a/src/app/components/ScrollLock.spec.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/ScrollLock.spec.tsx
@@ -167,10 +167,6 @@ describe('MobileScrollLock', () => {
       resetModules();
       ({React, renderToDom, renderer} = reactAndFriends());
 
-      const styled = require('styled-components');
-      // this is broken when unmounting without a dom
-      styled.createGlobalStyle = () => () => null;
-
       MobileScrollLock = require('./ScrollLock').default;
     });
 
diff --git a/src/app/components/ScrollOffset.spec.tsx b/src/app/components/ScrollOffset.spec.tsx
index bffbf4f729..192c3ec3d8 100644
--- a/src/app/components/ScrollOffset.spec.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/ScrollOffset.spec.tsx
@@ -176,9 +176,6 @@ describe('ScrollOffset', () => {
       delete (global as any).window;
       resetModules();
       ({React, renderer, ReactDOM, renderToDom} = reactAndFriends());
-      const styled = require('styled-components');
-      // this is broken when unmounting without a dom
-      styled.createGlobalStyle = () => () => null;
       ScrollOffset = require('./ScrollOffset').default;
     });
 
diff --git a/src/noStyledComponents.spec.ts b/src/noStyledComponents.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..63bac38c66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/noStyledComponents.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+/*
+ * The styled-components migration (CORE-1685) is finished as far as rex-web's own code
+ * goes, but the package cannot be uninstalled yet: @openstax/ui-components declares it
+ * as a peer dependency and we render Footer, NavBar and ConfirmationToast from that
+ * library. See CORE-1777 / CORE-2286.
+ *
+ * That leaves styled-components resolvable from every file in the repo for as long as
+ * ui-components takes to migrate, with nothing stopping a new import from appearing.
+ * This test is the thing that stops it. When ui-components ships a styled-components-free
+ * release, the allowlist below goes to empty, the package comes out of package.json, and
+ * this file can be deleted along with it.
+ */
+const allowedImporters = new Set([
+  // Collects the CSS that ui-components' styled components emit during prerendering, so
+  // the prerendered markup ships with the styles for the class names it references.
+  // Remove once ui-components no longer uses styled-components.
+  'script/prerender/contentPages.tsx',
+]);
+
+const searchRoots = ['src', 'script'];
+const sourceExtensions = ['.ts', '.tsx'];
+const skipDirectories = new Set(['node_modules', 'build', 'coverage']);
+
+/*
+ * Matches an import or a require of the package or any of its subpaths (the /macro entry
+ * being the one we used to use). Deliberately written not to match itself, so that this
+ * file does not show up in its own results.
+ */
+const importPattern = /(?:from|require\()\s*['"]styled-components(?:\/[^'"]*)?['"]/;
+
+const repoRoot = path.resolve(__dirname, '..');
+
+const findSourceFiles = (directory: string): string[] => fs
+  .readdirSync(path.join(repoRoot, directory), {withFileTypes: true})
+  .reduce<string[]>((found, entry) => {
+    const relativePath = path.join(directory, entry.name);
+
+    if (entry.isDirectory()) {
+      return skipDirectories.has(entry.name) ? found : found.concat(findSourceFiles(relativePath));
+    }
+
+    return sourceExtensions.indexOf(path.extname(entry.name)) === -1 ? found : found.concat(relativePath);
+  }, []);
+
+describe('styled-components', () => {
+  it('is imported only by the files that still need it', () => {
+    const importers = searchRoots
+      .reduce<string[]>((found, root) => found.concat(findSourceFiles(root)), [])
+      .filter((relativePath) => importPattern.test(fs.readFileSync(path.join(repoRoot, relativePath), 'utf8')));
+
+    expect(importers.sort()).toEqual(Array.from(allowedImporters).sort());
+  });
+});