diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d990b08..db0fcfb 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,11 +16,12 @@ Depends:
     ggplot2
 Imports:
     reshape2,
-    stats
+    stats,
+    ggtext
 Suggests:
     knitr,
     spelling
 URL: http://www.sthda.com/english/wiki/ggcorrplot
 BugReports: https://github.com/kassambara/ggcorrplot/issues
-RoxygenNote: 7.1.0
+RoxygenNote: 7.1.2
 Language: en-US
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 2ff62cc..4c51180 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 export(cor_pmat)
 export(ggcorrplot)
 import(ggplot2)
+import(ggtext)
diff --git a/R/ggcorrplot.R b/R/ggcorrplot.R
index 016a82b..dcc8c2a 100644
--- a/R/ggcorrplot.R
+++ b/R/ggcorrplot.R
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #' Visualization of a correlation matrix using ggplot2
-#' @import ggplot2
+#' @import ggplot2 ggtext
 #' @description \itemize{ \item ggcorrplot(): A graphical display of a
 #'   correlation matrix using ggplot2. \item cor_pmat(): Compute a correlation
 #'   matrix p-values. }
@@ -273,6 +273,8 @@ ggcorrplot <- function(corr,
       ),
       axis.text.y = ggplot2::element_text(size = tl.cex)
     ) +
+    ggplot2::theme(axis.text.x = ggtext::element_markdown(colour = tl.col),
+                   axis.text.y = ggtext::element_markdown(colour = tl.col))+
     ggplot2::coord_fixed()
 
   label <- round(x = corr[, "value"], digits = digits)