diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/base.css.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/base.css.scss
index 6102afb4..21cd5a7b 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/base.css.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/base.css.scss
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /* all custom SCSS should go into here */
 
 @import "scss/flags";
-@import "scss/variable";
 @import "scss/generic";
 @import "scss/answerbox";
 @import "scss/comments";
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/scss/variable.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/scss/variable.scss
deleted file mode 100644
index 56c04a46..00000000
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/scss/variable.scss
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-$main-color: #5e35b1;
-$black: #000;