diff --git a/src/app/[[...slug]]/page.tsx b/src/app/[[...slug]]/page.tsx
index 5efba49..7f029e7 100644
--- a/src/app/[[...slug]]/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/[[...slug]]/page.tsx
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ export default async function Page(props: PageProps<"/[[...slug]]">) {
   return (
     <DocsPage toc={page.data.toc} full={page.data.full}>
       <DocsTitle>{page.data.title}</DocsTitle>
-      <DocsDescription className="mb-0">
+      <DocsDescription className="mb-0 text-fd-foreground">
         {page.data.description}
       </DocsDescription>
       <div className="flex flex-row gap-2 items-center border-b pb-6">
diff --git a/src/app/global.css b/src/app/global.css
index 79d1558..3ebd230 100644
--- a/src/app/global.css
+++ b/src/app/global.css
@@ -72,6 +72,41 @@
   }
 }
 
+/* ── Body copy ── */
+
+/* Fumadocs sets prose body text to `--color-fd-foreground` at 90%, and renders
+   the page description (DocsDescription, the standfirst under the H1) muted.
+   We want the reverse: the standfirst leads at full contrast, and the body
+   copy sits back. Only `--tw-prose-body` moves — headings, links, bold, code,
+   quotes and captions keep their own variables, so they stay prominent
+   against the softer paragraph text.
+
+   Both values are theme tokens, so light and dark follow the same rule with
+   no per-mode override. The description's colour is set at the call site in
+   the two page routes.
+
+   Deliberately unlayered. Fumadocs declares `.prose` in `@layer utilities`,
+   and layer order beats both specificity and source order — the same rule
+   inside `@layer components` below is silently ignored. Unlayered
+   declarations outrank every layer, so this wins without `!important`. */
+.prose {
+  --tw-prose-body: var(--color-fd-muted-foreground);
+}
+
+/* Callout body sits one step above the muted paragraphs around it: the colour
+   prose body copy had before the rule above. A callout is already set apart by
+   its card background, border, accent bar and icon; matching the body copy
+   exactly made it read flat, and full foreground read as shouting.
+
+   Fumadocs puts `text-fd-muted-foreground` directly on the description div, so
+   inheritance can't reach it — this has to select the element. `data-callout`
+   is ours (see mdx-components.tsx); `prose-no-margin` is what Fumadocs marks
+   the description's prose block with. Unlayered for the same reason as the
+   rule above: the utility class it overrides lives in `@layer utilities`. */
+[data-callout] .prose-no-margin {
+  color: color-mix(in oklab, var(--color-fd-foreground) 90%, transparent);
+}
+
 /* ── Fumadocs component overrides ── */
 
 @layer components {
diff --git a/src/app/stack/[[...slug]]/page.tsx b/src/app/stack/[[...slug]]/page.tsx
index ef050ee..992bf75 100644
--- a/src/app/stack/[[...slug]]/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/stack/[[...slug]]/page.tsx
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ export default async function Page(props: PageProps<"/stack/[[...slug]]">) {
   return (
     <DocsPage toc={page.data.toc} full={page.data.full}>
       <DocsTitle>{page.data.title}</DocsTitle>
-      <DocsDescription className="mb-0">
+      <DocsDescription className="mb-0 text-fd-foreground">
         {page.data.description}
       </DocsDescription>
       <div className="flex flex-row gap-2 items-center border-b pb-6">
diff --git a/src/mdx-components.tsx b/src/mdx-components.tsx
index 57411a1..e8b9bd4 100644
--- a/src/mdx-components.tsx
+++ b/src/mdx-components.tsx
@@ -1,13 +1,42 @@
-import { Callout } from "fumadocs-ui/components/callout";
+import { Callout as FumaCallout } from "fumadocs-ui/components/callout";
 import { Step, Steps } from "fumadocs-ui/components/steps";
 import defaultMdxComponents from "fumadocs-ui/mdx";
 import type { MDXComponents } from "mdx/types";
+import type { ComponentProps } from "react";
 import { BadExample } from "@/components/bad-example";
 import { TrackedCodeBlock } from "@/components/code-block";
 import { EqlFn } from "@/components/eql-fn";
 import { EqlVersion } from "@/components/eql-version";
 import { ZeroKmsRegions } from "@/components/zerokms-regions";
 
+/**
+ * Callouts keep Fumadocs' own body colour — `text-fd-muted-foreground`, the
+ * same token the sidebar's resting nav items use — so they sit at the same
+ * weight as the rest of the chrome rather than shouting. This wrapper only:
+ *
+ *   - doubles the padding, `p-3 ps-1` → `p-6 ps-2`. `ps` stays proportionally
+ *     small because the accent bar is the container's first child and sits
+ *     near the edge;
+ *   - adds a `data-callout` attribute, which Fumadocs does not emit. global.css
+ *     has had a `[data-callout]` rule since the theme work that consequently
+ *     matched nothing.
+ *
+ * Fumadocs' `Callout` still resolves the `warn`/`tip` aliases, picks the icon
+ * and renders the title, and it spreads unknown props onto the container, so
+ * there is nothing here to reimplement.
+ */
+function Callout({ className, ...props }: ComponentProps<typeof FumaCallout>) {
+  // CalloutContainer runs its own `cn`, so these merge against its defaults;
+  // a caller's className comes last and still wins.
+  return (
+    <FumaCallout
+      data-callout
+      className={`p-6 ps-4 ${className ?? ""}`}
+      {...props}
+    />
+  );
+}
+
 export function getMDXComponents(components?: MDXComponents): MDXComponents {
   return {
     ...defaultMdxComponents,