diff --git a/blocks/footer.css b/blocks/footer.css
index 3f21850..968818b 100644
--- a/blocks/footer.css
+++ b/blocks/footer.css
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-  /* ─── prose footer · v3 · {{variant}} ───────────────────────────────────
+  /* ─── prose footer · v4 · {{variant}} ───────────────────────────────────
      Generated from @robertblust/design — edit it there and run `npm run design`.
 
      Two forms, and the difference is not styling. companygraph.io and
@@ -10,8 +10,12 @@
      The row is mono because the row is data: a repository URL and a license.
      The credit leaves that mono deliberately, because a brand is not a record
      value. Both facts belong here rather than in sixteen page comments. A link
-     in the row is the family's link, from the `link` block, with nothing of its own. */
-  footer{padding:0 0 2rem; display:flex; flex-wrap:wrap; gap:.9rem 2.6rem; align-items:center;
+     in the row is the family's link, from the `link` block, with nothing of its own.
+
+     The row's floor adds the phone's bottom inset. A page that declares `viewport-fit=cover`
+     draws under Android's and iOS's bottom bars, and the last row would sit under them;
+     everywhere else the inset is 0 and the floor is the 2rem it always was. */
+  footer{padding:0 0 calc(2rem + env(safe-area-inset-bottom)); display:flex; flex-wrap:wrap; gap:.9rem 2.6rem; align-items:center;
          font-family:"Plex Mono",monospace; font-size:.76rem; letter-spacing:.08em; color:var(--dim)}
 {{credit}}  footer a[aria-current="page"]{color:var(--c-firm)}
   /* ─── end prose footer ──────────────────────────────────────────────────*/
diff --git a/blocks/theme.js b/blocks/theme.js
index 09477ed..e0a1eb1 100644
--- a/blocks/theme.js
+++ b/blocks/theme.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-  /* ─── theme · v5 · {{variant}} ───────────────────────────────────────
+  /* ─── theme · v6 · {{variant}} ───────────────────────────────────────
      One theme across three domains, and where it is remembered. Generated from
      @robertblust/design — editing it here does nothing.
 
@@ -66,4 +66,24 @@
     if (d) d.setAttribute("aria-pressed", theme === "dark" ? "true" : "false");
   }
   function setTheme(v){ theme = v; themeRemember(v); applyTheme(); }
+
+  /* A page opened from a phone's home screen has Android paint its system bars from the page's
+     `theme-color`. A page declares that meta with dark's ground, the default, and this keeps it
+     on the ground of the theme the visitor actually sees. It watches `data-theme` rather than
+     hooking `applyTheme`, because a page may switch the theme with a copy of its own — blust.ch's
+     pages do — and the attribute is the one thing every switch sets. The color is read from the
+     tokens rather than restated here, so a re-picked ground moves the bars with it. A page
+     without the meta is left as it is. */
+  function themeColor(){
+    try {
+      var tc = document.querySelector('meta[name="theme-color"]');
+      if (!tc) return;
+      var g = getComputedStyle(document.documentElement).getPropertyValue("--ground").trim();
+      if (g) tc.setAttribute("content", g);
+    } catch (e) {}
+  }
+  themeColor();
+  try {
+    new MutationObserver(themeColor).observe(document.documentElement, { attributes: true, attributeFilter: ["data-theme"] });
+  } catch (e) {}
   /* ─── end theme ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
diff --git a/docs/design-system/blocks.md b/docs/design-system/blocks.md
index bb90d66..a87c2dd 100644
--- a/docs/design-system/blocks.md
+++ b/docs/design-system/blocks.md
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ The lines a prose page lifts out of its paragraphs, each drawn in a color role f
 
 ## Footer
 
-The row at the foot of every prose page: the repository and the license, and on companygraph.io and guestgraph.io the credit to blust.ch. A site names its form in `design.config.json` as `"footer": "credit"` or `"plain"`. Contract: [blocks/footer.css](../../blocks/footer.css), and the credit's rules in [blocks/footer-credit.css](../../blocks/footer-credit.css).
+The row at the foot of every prose page: the repository and the license, and on companygraph.io and guestgraph.io the credit to blust.ch. A site names its form in `design.config.json` as `"footer": "credit"` or `"plain"`. On a phone the row keeps clear of the system's bottom bar. Contract: [blocks/footer.css](../../blocks/footer.css), and the credit's rules in [blocks/footer-credit.css](../../blocks/footer-credit.css).
 
 ```text
 credit
@@ -200,6 +200,6 @@ These blocks draw nothing of their own and have no picture.
 | Block | What it does | Contract |
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | Theme boot | Sets the theme before the first paint | [blocks/theme-boot.js](../../blocks/theme-boot.js) |
-| Theme | Switches and remembers light and dark across the family's domains | [blocks/theme.js](../../blocks/theme.js) |
+| Theme | Switches and remembers light and dark across the family's domains, and keeps a page's `theme-color` on the ground of the theme shown | [blocks/theme.js](../../blocks/theme.js) |
 | Language | Decides and remembers English or German across the family's domains | [blocks/lang.js](../../blocks/lang.js) |
 | Nav fit | Measures whether the header row fits | [blocks/nav-fit.js](../../blocks/nav-fit.js) |
diff --git a/test/theme.test.mjs b/test/theme.test.mjs
index f2fc5d2..0926766 100644
--- a/test/theme.test.mjs
+++ b/test/theme.test.mjs
@@ -920,3 +920,61 @@ test("--c-sum, the conclusion line, clears 3:1 against its own ground, in both t
     assert.ok(r >= 3, `${name}: --c-sum is ${r.toFixed(2)}:1 on --ground, needs 3`);
   }
 });
+
+// The theme-color hook is run for real, as carryTheme is above: a regex over the source would
+// pass a block that names `theme-color` and `--ground` in a comment while never setting the meta.
+// The page switches the theme through `documentElement` alone, the way a page carrying its own
+// copy of the switch does, so the hook is shown to follow the attribute, not `setTheme`.
+function runThemeColor({ meta, grounds, start = null }) {
+  const js = blockFor("theme", "page");
+  let dataTheme = start;
+  const observers = [];
+  const documentElement = {
+    getAttribute: (n) => (n === "data-theme" ? dataTheme : null),
+    setAttribute(n, v) { if (n === "data-theme") { dataTheme = v; observers.forEach((f) => f()); } },
+    removeAttribute(n) { if (n === "data-theme") { dataTheme = null; observers.forEach((f) => f()); } },
+  };
+  const sandbox = {
+    console, URL,
+    localStorage: { getItem: () => null, setItem() {} },
+    location: { href: "https://blust.ch/", origin: "https://blust.ch", search: "", pathname: "/", hash: "" },
+    history: { replaceState() {} },
+    document: {
+      addEventListener() {}, documentElement, getElementById: () => null,
+      querySelector: (sel) => (sel === 'meta[name="theme-color"]' ? meta : null),
+    },
+    getComputedStyle: () => ({ getPropertyValue: (n) => (n === "--ground" ? grounds[dataTheme === "light" ? "light" : "dark"] : "") }),
+    MutationObserver: class {
+      constructor(f) { this.f = f; }
+      observe(target, opts) { if (target === documentElement && opts.attributeFilter.includes("data-theme")) observers.push(this.f); }
+    },
+  };
+  vm.createContext(sandbox);
+  vm.runInContext(js, sandbox);
+  return { documentElement };
+}
+
+test("theme-color follows data-theme, whichever switch sets it", () => {
+  // Android paints a home-screen page's system bars from `theme-color`; a light visitor whose
+  // bars stayed dark's ground would see a dark band under a light page.
+  const content = { value: "#0C0E13" };
+  const meta = { setAttribute(n, v) { if (n === "content") content.value = v; } };
+  const { documentElement } = runThemeColor({ meta, grounds: { dark: " #0C0E13", light: " #FAF9F5" } });
+  documentElement.setAttribute("data-theme", "light");
+  assert.equal(content.value, "#FAF9F5", "light did not move theme-color to light's ground");
+  documentElement.removeAttribute("data-theme");
+  assert.equal(content.value, "#0C0E13", "dark did not move theme-color back to dark's ground");
+});
+
+test("theme-color takes the theme a page loads in", () => {
+  // `theme boot` has already set light before this block runs; the bars must not wait for a click.
+  const content = { value: "#0C0E13" };
+  const meta = { setAttribute(n, v) { if (n === "content") content.value = v; } };
+  runThemeColor({ meta, grounds: { dark: "#0C0E13", light: "#FAF9F5" }, start: "light" });
+  assert.equal(content.value, "#FAF9F5");
+});
+
+test("a page without a theme-color meta is left alone", () => {
+  const { documentElement } = runThemeColor({ meta: null, grounds: { dark: "#0C0E13", light: "#FAF9F5" } });
+  assert.doesNotThrow(() => documentElement.setAttribute("data-theme", "light"));
+});
diff --git a/versions.json b/versions.json
index 36ff290..2dfa7a2 100644
--- a/versions.json
+++ b/versions.json
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
   "title": "v2",
   "reset": "v3",
   "lang": "v5",
-  "footer": "v3",
+  "footer": "v4",
   "transport": "v11",
   "lockup": "v1",
   "fit": "v1",
   "rests": "v1",
   "runtime": "v10",
   "themeBoot": "v6",
-  "theme": "v5",
+  "theme": "v6",
   "navFit": "v3",
   "processes": "v1",
   "surfaces": "v2",