diff --git a/awesomerc.5.txt b/awesomerc.5.txt
index 06039f946..d448f81ca 100644
--- a/awesomerc.5.txt
+++ b/awesomerc.5.txt
@@ -49,10 +49,6 @@ List of *awesome* markup elements and their attributes:
   - image: path to a background image
   - align: background image alignment
   - resize: resize background image to text size
-* text
-  - shadow: shadow color
-  - shadow_offset: shadow color offset in pixel
-
 
 A Pango markup example: <span weight="bold" foreground="#336699">...</span>.
 
diff --git a/common/tokenize.gperf b/common/tokenize.gperf
index b956fc113..03e161eaa 100644
--- a/common/tokenize.gperf
+++ b/common/tokenize.gperf
@@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ right
 role
 screen
 selected
-shadow
-shadow_offset
 Shift
 size_hints
 skip_taskbar
diff --git a/draw.c b/draw.c
index 7e4b1ed94..e94690067 100644
--- a/draw.c
+++ b/draw.c
@@ -201,22 +201,6 @@ draw_markup_on_element(markup_parser_data_t *p, const char *elem,
                     break;
                 }
         break;
-      case 't': /* text */
-        for(; *names; names++, values++)
-            switch(a_tokenize(*names, -1))
-            {
-              case A_TK_SHADOW:
-                reqs[++reqs_nbr] = xcolor_init_unchecked(&data->shadow.color,
-                                                         *values,
-                                                         a_strlen(*values));
-                break;
-              case A_TK_SHADOW_OFFSET:
-                data->shadow.offset = atoi(*values);
-                break;
-              default:
-                break;
-            }
-        break;
     }
 
     for(i = 0; i <= reqs_nbr; i++)
@@ -230,7 +214,7 @@ static bool
 draw_text_markup_expand(draw_parser_data_t *data,
                         const char *str, ssize_t slen)
 {
-    static char const * const elements[] = { "bg", "bg_margin", "text", NULL };
+    static char const * const elements[] = { "bg", "bg_margin", NULL };
     markup_parser_data_t p =
     {
         .elements   = elements,
@@ -383,18 +367,6 @@ draw_text(draw_context_t *ctx, font_t *font, PangoEllipsizeMode ellip, PangoWrap
             break;
         }
 
-    if(pdata->shadow.offset)
-    {
-        cairo_set_source_rgba(ctx->cr,
-                              pdata->shadow.color.red / 65535.0,
-                              pdata->shadow.color.green / 65535.0,
-                              pdata->shadow.color.blue / 65535.0,
-                              pdata->shadow.color.alpha / 65535.0);
-        cairo_move_to(ctx->cr, x + pdata->shadow.offset, y + pdata->shadow.offset);
-        pango_cairo_layout_path(ctx->cr, ctx->layout);
-        cairo_stroke(ctx->cr);
-    }
-
     cairo_move_to(ctx->cr, x, y);
 
     cairo_set_source_rgba(ctx->cr,
diff --git a/draw.h b/draw.h
index 2979e1a25..967b3c225 100644
--- a/draw.h
+++ b/draw.h
@@ -170,11 +170,6 @@ typedef struct
     image_t *bg_image;
     alignment_t bg_align;
     bool bg_resize;
-    struct
-    {
-        int offset;
-        xcolor_t color;
-    } shadow;
 } draw_parser_data_t;
 
 void draw_text(draw_context_t *, font_t *, PangoEllipsizeMode, PangoWrapMode, alignment_t, padding_t *, area_t, const char *, ssize_t len, draw_parser_data_t *, area_t *);