diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/index.ts b/packages/grafana-ui/src/index.ts
index 4072052a07d..b22152497b9 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/index.ts
@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@ export * from './components';
 export * from './visualizations';
 export * from './types';
 export * from './utils';
-export { default } from './utils';
 export * from './forms';
diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/utils/colors.ts b/packages/grafana-ui/src/utils/colors.ts
index 0b22cd7f81d..263d128aec4 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/utils/colors.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/utils/colors.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ export const NO_DATA_COLOR = 'rgba(150, 150, 150, 1)';
 export const PENDING_COLOR = 'rgba(247, 149, 32, 1)';
 export const REGION_FILL_ALPHA = 0.09;
 
-const colors = [
+export const colors = [
   '#7EB26D', // 0: pale green
   '#EAB839', // 1: mustard
   '#6ED0E0', // 2: light blue
@@ -91,4 +91,3 @@ function hslToHex(color: any) {
 }
 
 export let sortedColors = sortColorsByHue(colors);
-export default colors;
diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/utils/index.ts b/packages/grafana-ui/src/utils/index.ts
index 1a677b1f033..eb67a6f7256 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/utils/index.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/utils/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 export * from './processTimeSeries';
 export * from './colors';
-export { default } from './colors';
diff --git a/public/app/core/core.ts b/public/app/core/core.ts
index 19e9a473e35..6713d8bcd14 100644
--- a/public/app/core/core.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/core.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import './utils/outline';
 import './components/colorpicker/spectrum_picker';
 import './services/search_srv';
 import './services/ng_react';
+import { colors } from '@grafana/ui/';
 
 import { searchDirective } from './components/search/search';
 import { infoPopover } from './components/info_popover';
@@ -34,7 +35,6 @@ import 'app/core/services/all';
 import './filters/filters';
 import coreModule from './core_module';
 import appEvents from './app_events';
-import colors from '@grafana/ui/';
 import { assignModelProperties } from './utils/model_utils';
 import { contextSrv } from './services/context_srv';
 import { KeybindingSrv } from './services/keybindingSrv';
diff --git a/public/app/core/logs_model.ts b/public/app/core/logs_model.ts
index 8eb8433cd53..4cf9a029a2a 100644
--- a/public/app/core/logs_model.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/logs_model.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import _ from 'lodash';
-import colors from '@grafana/ui';
+import { colors } from '@grafana/ui';
 
 import { TimeSeries } from 'app/core/core';
 import { getThemeColor } from 'app/core/utils/colors';
diff --git a/public/app/core/utils/explore.ts b/public/app/core/utils/explore.ts
index 2cca33620b7..f3273ffa16d 100644
--- a/public/app/core/utils/explore.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/utils/explore.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import _ from 'lodash';
-import colors from '@grafana/ui';
+import { colors } from '@grafana/ui';
 
 import { renderUrl } from 'app/core/utils/url';
 import kbn from 'app/core/utils/kbn';
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/data_processor.ts b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/data_processor.ts
index ef4ad872753..4fe47b70129 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/data_processor.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/data_processor.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import _ from 'lodash';
-import colors from '@grafana/ui';
+import { colors } from '@grafana/ui';
 
 import TimeSeries from 'app/core/time_series2';
 
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph2/GraphPanel.tsx b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph2/GraphPanel.tsx
index 11be172aaeb..4a3daf77333 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph2/GraphPanel.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph2/GraphPanel.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Libraries
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import React, { PureComponent } from 'react';
-import colors from '@grafana/ui';
+import { colors } from '@grafana/ui';
 
 // Components & Types
 import { Graph, PanelProps, NullValueMode, processTimeSeries } from '@grafana/ui';
diff --git a/public/app/routes/GrafanaCtrl.ts b/public/app/routes/GrafanaCtrl.ts
index 434a112692e..4e4dd8121cf 100644
--- a/public/app/routes/GrafanaCtrl.ts
+++ b/public/app/routes/GrafanaCtrl.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import config from 'app/core/config';
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import $ from 'jquery';
 import Drop from 'tether-drop';
-import colors from '@grafana/ui';
+import { colors } from '@grafana/ui';
 
 import coreModule from 'app/core/core_module';
 import { profiler } from 'app/core/profiler';
diff --git a/public/app/viz/state/timeSeries.ts b/public/app/viz/state/timeSeries.ts
index 2329d6f41af..5f27974a33b 100644
--- a/public/app/viz/state/timeSeries.ts
+++ b/public/app/viz/state/timeSeries.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import _ from 'lodash';
 
 // Utils
-import colors from '@grafana/ui';
+import { colors } from '@grafana/ui';
 
 // Types
 import { TimeSeries, TimeSeriesVMs, NullValueMode } from '@grafana/ui';