diff --git a/src/changelog.json b/src/changelog.json
index 61cb4cd..5408c65 100644
--- a/src/changelog.json
+++ b/src/changelog.json
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 [
+  { "date": "2026-09-01", "text": "Toned the awake timer down: the pill in the day bar is a fainter yellow and its text a good deal darker, so “Awake for” is comfortable to read rather than technically legible. The Awake labels elsewhere darkened with it" },
   { "date": "2026-08-31", "text": "The asleep timer text is a deeper blue, so “Asleep for” in the day-bar pill and on the big card is properly readable against its own pale blue background instead of the near-invisible blue-on-blue it was — the same treatment the awake gold just got, and it applies to the Asleep labels in the Sleep & wake list too" },
   { "date": "2026-08-31", "text": "The awake timer is sunshine too now — both the big “Awake for” card and the pill in the day bar — so the whole app tells asleep and awake apart by night-blue against day-gold rather than by blue against purple" },
   { "date": "2026-08-31", "text": "Awake stretches in the Sleep & wake list are sunshine yellow now instead of the app's purple — the same idea as the ☀️ on the timer pill — so asleep and awake read as night and day down the list rather than as two shades of the same accent" },
diff --git a/src/style.css b/src/style.css
index 62a6632..12523e2 100644
--- a/src/style.css
+++ b/src/style.css
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
      jobs and failing the second — 2.6:1 on the timer pill it painted. */
   --sleep-ink: #4258cc;
   --wake: #f2b705;
-  --wake-ink: #8f6400;
+  --wake-ink: #6f4d00;
   --note: #6f7a90;
   --danger: #d64545;
   --gain: #2e9e5b;
@@ -228,8 +228,10 @@ body::before {
 .bar-clock.standby { visibility: hidden; }
 .bar-clock.asleep { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--sleep) 18%, var(--surface)); color: var(--sleep-ink); }
 /* Dark text on the yellow, the way the pee button already does it: a gold
-   light enough to read as sunshine is never legible as text on a pale ground. */
-.bar-clock.awake  { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--wake) 18%, var(--surface)); color: var(--wake-ink); }
+   light enough to read as sunshine is never legible as text on a pale ground.
+   12% where asleep takes 18% — equal percentages of these two hues are not
+   equally strong, and yellow at 18% shouted while the blue did not. */
+.bar-clock.awake  { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--wake) 12%, var(--surface)); color: var(--wake-ink); }
 
 .big-clock {
   text-align: center;