diff --git a/StrandiOSWidgets/NOOPWidget.swift b/StrandiOSWidgets/NOOPWidget.swift
index 5e55dc7ebf..50907d89ef 100644
--- a/StrandiOSWidgets/NOOPWidget.swift
+++ b/StrandiOSWidgets/NOOPWidget.swift
@@ -29,10 +29,14 @@ struct NOOPProvider: TimelineProvider {
 }
 
 /// The glanceable widget — the iOS analogue of the macOS menu-bar extra.
-/// Home Screen families mirror Today's hero trio (Charge · Effort · Rest) as score rings; Lock Screen
-/// accessories stay compact single-line / gauge layouts.
+/// Home Screen families mirror Today's hero trio (Charge · Effort · Rest) as score rings. Lock Screen
+/// accessories are compact: a single line, a gauge, or the rectangular glyph-over-value trio.
 struct NOOPWidgetView: View {
     @Environment(\.widgetFamily) private var family
+    /// `.fullColor` on the home screen and in the gallery; `.vibrant` or `.accented` on the lock screen,
+    /// where the system desaturates any colour it is handed. The accessory cells check this rather than
+    /// tinting unconditionally — see `accessoryScore`.
+    @Environment(\.widgetRenderingMode) private var renderingMode
     let entry: NOOPEntry
 
     private var snap: WidgetSnapshot { entry.snapshot }
@@ -97,37 +101,75 @@ struct NOOPWidgetView: View {
 
     /// Lock-Screen rectangular accessory: Charge · Effort · Rest, same trio as the Home Screen rings.
     private var rectangular: some View {
-        VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 2) {
-            HStack(spacing: 4) {
-                Text("NOOP")
-                    .font(.system(size: 11, weight: .bold))
-                    .foregroundStyle(StrandPalette.textSecondary)
-                Spacer(minLength: 0)
-                if let bpm = snap.bpm {
-                    Text("\(bpm) bpm")
-                        .font(.caption2)
-                        .foregroundStyle(StrandPalette.textTertiary)
-                }
+        // The lock screen gives this family roughly 72pt of height for everything. A "NOOP" title spent
+        // a whole row of that restating which widget the user chose to add, leaving the three scores —
+        // the only reason to add it — squeezed underneath. The title is gone and the heart-rate line is
+        // now conditional, so with no live HR the scores get the entire area.
+        VStack(spacing: 2) {
+            if let bpm = snap.bpm {
+                Text("\(bpm) bpm")
+                    .font(.caption2)
+                    .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+                    .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .trailing)
             }
             HStack(alignment: .top, spacing: 0) {
-                accessoryScore("Charge", text: snap.recovery.map { "\($0)%" }, tint: chargeColor)
-                accessoryScore("Effort", text: effortText, tint: effortColor)
-                accessoryScore("Rest", text: snap.rest.map { "\($0)%" }, tint: restColor)
+                accessoryScore("Charge", symbol: "figure.mind.and.body",
+                               text: snap.recovery.map { "\($0)%" }, tint: chargeColor)
+                accessoryScore("Effort", symbol: "figure.strengthtraining.traditional",
+                               text: effortText, tint: effortColor)
+                accessoryScore("Rest", symbol: "moon.fill",
+                               text: snap.rest.map { "\($0)%" }, tint: restColor)
             }
         }
     }
 
-    private func accessoryScore(_ label: String, text: String?, tint: Color) -> some View {
-        VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 0) {
+    /// One score cell. On the LOCK SCREEN the domain tint is deliberately dropped; it survives only
+    /// where the system actually renders full colour, which for this family means a gallery preview.
+    ///
+    /// Lock-screen widgets render in `.vibrant` (or `.accented`), where the system desaturates whatever
+    /// colour it is given and maps it onto the wallpaper. A domain colour handed to it does not survive
+    /// as that colour — it lands as an arbitrary grey whose luminance nobody chose, so Charge, Effort and
+    /// Rest stopped being distinguishable AND stopped being legible. `.primary`/`.secondary` are the two
+    /// levels the system is designed to map, so the value reads at full strength and the glyph above it
+    /// recedes, which is the hierarchy the tint was there to express in the first place.
+    ///
+    /// The `.fullColor` branch is defensive rather than hot: this family renders `.vibrant` on the lock
+    /// screen and in StandBy, so the tint realistically only reaches a gallery preview.
+    private func accessoryScore(_ label: String, symbol: String, text: String?, tint: Color) -> some View {
+        VStack(spacing: 1) {
+            // Glyph over value, the shape the request asked for. A 9pt word under each number was
+            // spending scarce height on text nobody needs twice — the icons carry the metric identity.
+            Image(systemName: symbol)
+                .font(.system(size: 11, weight: .semibold))
+                .foregroundStyle(renderingMode == .fullColor
+                                 ? AnyShapeStyle(StrandPalette.textTertiary)
+                                 : AnyShapeStyle(HierarchicalShapeStyle.secondary))
             Text(text ?? "–")
-                .font(.system(size: 16, weight: .semibold, design: .rounded))
-                .foregroundStyle(text == nil ? StrandPalette.textTertiary : tint)
+                .font(.system(size: 15, weight: .semibold, design: .rounded))
+                .foregroundStyle(scoreStyle(hasValue: text != nil, tint: tint))
                 .minimumScaleFactor(0.7)
-            Text(label)
-                .font(.system(size: 9))
-                .foregroundStyle(StrandPalette.textTertiary)
         }
-        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .leading)
+        .frame(maxWidth: .infinity)
+        // An icon says nothing to VoiceOver, and the word it replaced was the only thing naming this
+        // metric. Collapse the cell to one element that still speaks "Charge, 68 percent".
+        .accessibilityElement(children: .ignore)
+        .accessibilityLabel(Text(label))
+        // Plain literal, not String(localized:). This extension's sources are StrandiOSWidgets +
+        // StrandiOSShared only — Strand/Resources/Localizable.xcstrings is NOT in the target, and
+        // String(localized:) resolves against Bundle.main, which for an app extension is the extension's
+        // own bundle. It would compile, look localized, and render English in every locale. Every other
+        // string in this file is a bare literal for the same reason: the widget is not localized yet.
+        .accessibilityValue(Text(text ?? "No data"))
+    }
+
+    private func scoreStyle(hasValue: Bool, tint: Color) -> AnyShapeStyle {
+        // Spelled out rather than leaning on leading-dot inference through AnyShapeStyle's generic
+        // init, which is the kind of expression that type-checks in a playground and not in a build.
+        guard renderingMode == .fullColor else {
+            return hasValue ? AnyShapeStyle(HierarchicalShapeStyle.primary)
+                            : AnyShapeStyle(HierarchicalShapeStyle.secondary)
+        }
+        return hasValue ? AnyShapeStyle(tint) : AnyShapeStyle(StrandPalette.textTertiary)
     }
 
     // MARK: - Home Screen: systemSmall