diff --git a/Panel.qml b/Panel.qml
index 87e97fd..27d59f5 100644
--- a/Panel.qml
+++ b/Panel.qml
@@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ Panel {
   readonly property color urgent: bar ? bar.urgent : Color.urgent
   readonly property color dim: Qt.darker(foreground, 1.55)
 
-  // Brand yellow/gold: #FECF03, hue 48.8deg. This is the canonical brand
-  // value, not a sample — an earlier #FCC001 was measured off the hexagons in
-  // OffScaleAppIcon.png, but PNG antialiasing and the icon's own shading make
-  // sampled pixels an approximation. Take this from the brand, never a
-  // screenshot or an eyedropper.
+  // Brand yellow/gold: #FECF03, hue 48.8deg — the canonical brand value.
+  //
+  // Briefly #FCC001, sampled from the hexagons in OffScaleAppIcon.png. That
+  // reading was correct; the artwork was the thing that was off-brand, and the
+  // icon was recoloured to match this value afterwards. Keep this in sync with
+  // the brand rather than with whatever the current asset happens to contain.
   //
   // Everything yellow in the plugin resolves through here: the tailnet label in
   // the bar, the active connection's name, and the IP / DNS subtitle under each