diff --git a/src/pages/index.astro b/src/pages/index.astro
index 6481d3b22f130..4256ac4bb1660 100644
--- a/src/pages/index.astro
+++ b/src/pages/index.astro
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const latest = [
     <section class="home-hero wrapper" aria-labelledby="intro-title">
       <div class="hero-copy">
         <p class="hero-kicker"><span class="hero-dot"></span> Research · products · teaching</p>
-        <h1 id="intro-title"><em>Trustworthy</em> AI<br /> and software.</h1>
+        <h1 id="intro-title"><span class="hero-accent"><em>Trustworthy</em> AI</span><br /> and software.</h1>
         <p class="hero-lede">
           I am Boxi Yu, a software engineering researcher at Lero. I study how to test and evaluate
           coding agents and AI systems so that people can decide when to trust them, then turn those
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ const latest = [
     line-height: 0.98;
     letter-spacing: -0.04em;
   }
-  .hero-copy h1 em {
+  .hero-copy h1 .hero-accent {
     color: var(--strawberry);
   }
   .hero-lede {