diff --git a/theme.css b/theme.css
index 32ef3e8..1009ffd 100644
--- a/theme.css
+++ b/theme.css
@@ -45,7 +45,12 @@
     --card: oklch(1 0 0 / 0.58);
     --card-foreground: oklch(0.16 0.025 285);
 
-    --popover: oklch(1 0 0 / 0.74);
+    /* Near-opaque on purpose, unlike --card. A popover is the one glass
+     * surface with nothing behind it: a card sits on the page background,
+     * but a menu floats over arbitrary content, and at card alpha the text
+     * underneath reads straight through a list of menu items. The backdrop
+     * blur below still gives it depth — the tint just stops being a window. */
+    --popover: oklch(1 0 0 / 0.94);
     --popover-foreground: oklch(0.16 0.025 285);
 
     --primary: oklch(0.55 0.22 295);
@@ -193,7 +198,9 @@
     --card: oklch(0.22 0.04 290 / 0.55);
     --card-foreground: oklch(0.97 0.005 280);
 
-    --popover: oklch(0.22 0.04 290 / 0.78);
+    /* See the light-mode note: dark is the worse case, because the aurora
+     * field behind a menu is at its most saturated here. */
+    --popover: oklch(0.22 0.04 290 / 0.95);
     --popover-foreground: oklch(0.97 0.005 280);
 
     --primary: oklch(0.7 0.2 295);