diff --git a/src/changelog.json b/src/changelog.json
index 64372f4..23a6188 100644
--- a/src/changelog.json
+++ b/src/changelog.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [
-  { "date": "2026-09-01", "text": "On the dark theme the awake timers are white now — both “Awake for” at the top and the pill in the day bar — instead of yellow text on a yellow-tinted pill. The light theme keeps its dark gold, where white would disappear into a near-white pill" },
+  { "date": "2026-09-01", "text": "On the dark theme the awake timers are a warm near-white now — both “Awake for” at the top and the pill in the day bar — instead of yellow text on a yellow-tinted pill. The light theme keeps its dark gold, where white would disappear into a near-white pill" },
   { "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" },
diff --git a/src/style.css b/src/style.css
index d462c73..36947fc 100644
--- a/src/style.css
+++ b/src/style.css
@@ -19,11 +19,12 @@
   --sleep-ink: #4258cc;
   --wake: #f2b705;
   --wake-ink: #6f4d00;
-  /* The two timers want plain white on the dark theme, where the pill is a
-     deep olive and a gold font just reads as more yellow. In the light theme
-     the same pill is near-white cream, so white would vanish and it keeps the
-     ink. Separate from --wake-ink so the list's AWAKE labels stay gold and go
-     on matching their stripe. */
+  /* The two timers, on the dark theme, take a near-white with a sixth of the
+     gold mixed into it (#fdf4da): warm enough to belong to the sunshine, far
+     enough from --wake-ink not to be yellow text on a yellow pill again. In
+     the light theme the same pill is near-white cream, so anything pale would
+     vanish and it keeps the dark ink. Separate from --wake-ink so the list's
+     AWAKE labels stay gold and go on matching their stripe. */
   --wake-timer-ink: #6f4d00;
   --note: #6f7a90;
   --danger: #d64545;
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@
     --accent-soft: #2a2640;
     --sleep-ink: #8ba4ff;
     --wake-ink: #f5c451;
-    --wake-timer-ink: #ffffff;
+    --wake-timer-ink: #fdf4da;
     --border: #2c2a3a;
     --shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3), 0 4px 16px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
   }
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@
   --accent-soft: #2a2640;
   --sleep-ink: #8ba4ff;
   --wake-ink: #f5c451;
-  --wake-timer-ink: #ffffff;
+  --wake-timer-ink: #fdf4da;
   --border: #2c2a3a;
   --shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3), 0 4px 16px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
 }