diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 4d94d156..ef1496bb 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="192x192" href="/favicon-192x192.png?v=__ICON_VERSION__" />
     <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
     <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
-    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Instrument+Serif:ital@0;1&family=JetBrains+Mono:ital,wght@0,100..800;1,100..800&family=Saira:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&family=Space+Grotesk:wght@400;700;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
+    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fraunces:ital,opsz,wght,SOFT,WONK@0,9..144,300..900,0..100,0..1;1,9..144,300..900,0..100,0..1&family=Instrument+Serif:ital@0;1&family=JetBrains+Mono:ital,wght@0,100..800;1,100..800&family=Saira:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&family=Space+Grotesk:wght@400;700;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
     <meta name="theme-color" media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" content="#01152a" />
     <meta name="theme-color" media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" content="#faf5e9" />
diff --git a/src/contexts/ThemeContext.ts b/src/contexts/ThemeContext.ts
index 1c073e0b..924b0c86 100644
--- a/src/contexts/ThemeContext.ts
+++ b/src/contexts/ThemeContext.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 import { createContext } from "react";
 
 export type StyleName =
-  "smooth" | "brutalist" | "geocities" | "nyt" | "kanagawa";
+  | "smooth"
+  | "brutalist"
+  | "geocities"
+  | "nyt"
+  | "kanagawa"
+  | "melange";
 export type ColorScheme = "auto" | "light" | "dark";
 
 export interface ThemeContextValue {
diff --git a/src/main.tsx b/src/main.tsx
index a8925178..fb8404e5 100644
--- a/src/main.tsx
+++ b/src/main.tsx
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import "./themes/brutalist.css";
 import "./themes/geocities.css";
 import "./themes/nyt.css";
 import "./themes/kanagawa.css";
+import "./themes/melange.css";
 
 await loadCatalog();
 
diff --git a/src/pages/UserPublicProfile.tsx b/src/pages/UserPublicProfile.tsx
index b7f3f5b3..d0dceb6c 100644
--- a/src/pages/UserPublicProfile.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/UserPublicProfile.tsx
@@ -1238,6 +1238,13 @@ export function UserPublicProfile() {
                   >
                     Kanagawa
                   </button>
+                  <button
+                    type="button"
+                    className={style === "melange" ? "active" : ""}
+                    onClick={() => setStyle("melange")}
+                  >
+                    Melange
+                  </button>
                 </div>
               </div>
               <div className="profile-appearance-row">
diff --git a/src/themes/melange.css b/src/themes/melange.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d8683926
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/themes/melange.css
@@ -0,0 +1,337 @@
+/* ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+   Melange theme — after savq/melange-nvim, whose palette is pure 1970s
+   desert: toasted amber, terracotta, olive, dusty rose, laid on roasted
+   coffee (dark) or warm plaster (light).
+
+   So this is not an editor skin — it's a warm print. The scheme's own
+   colours are kept exactly; what's built on them is analog: a soft
+   Windsor-ish serif, film grain over the whole page, pillowy borderless
+   cards that sit in warm shadow rather than inside a line, and a spice
+   gradient — the mélange itself, every hue blended — along the header.
+
+   Dark scheme  → melange dark  (#292522 grounds, cream ink).
+   Light scheme → melange light (plaster, and every ink is a brown).
+   ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ */
+
+/* ── Palette (light-dark: see tokens.css) ─────────────────────────── */
+:root[data-style="melange"] {
+  /* One family, soft-serif: Fraunces sits at the Souvenir/Cooper end of
+     the 70s, which is exactly where this palette lives.
+
+     Its optical-size axis is the catch — left on `auto`, a headline is
+     cut as a high-contrast Didone while the caption under it is a sturdy
+     slab, and one family starts reading as three. So opsz is pinned low
+     and everywhere: sturdy, low-contrast, warm at every size. Any rule
+     that touches SOFT or WONK repeats opsz, since font-variation-settings
+     replaces the whole list rather than merging into it. */
+  --font-body: "Fraunces", Georgia, serif;
+  --font-display: "Fraunces", Georgia, serif;
+  --mel-opsz: 14;
+
+  /* Nothing here has a sharp corner. */
+  --radius-xs: 5px;
+  --radius-sm: 8px;
+  --radius-md: 12px;
+  --radius-lg: 16px;
+  --radius-xl: 22px;
+
+  /* Text — a.fg / a.com / a.ui */
+  --color-text: light-dark(#54433a, #ece1d7);
+  --color-text-secondary: light-dark(#7d6658, #c1a78e);
+  --color-text-muted: light-dark(#a98a78, #867462);
+  --color-on-accent: light-dark(#f7f4f1, #292522);
+
+  /* Surfaces — sunken < bg < surface < raised.
+     Dark:  below a.bg · a.bg · a.float · a.sel.
+     Light: a.sel is the well, a.float is the *page* — melange's light
+            side keeps its warmth in the floats, so on a page made of
+            cards the plaster belongs underneath and the cards are the
+            bleached tints above it. Reversing those two tiers is what
+            keeps the light scheme from reading as grey. */
+  --color-bg: light-dark(#e9e1db, #292522);
+  --color-surface: light-dark(#f6f2ef, #34302c);
+  --color-surface-raised: light-dark(#fdfbf9, #403a36);
+  --color-surface-sunken: light-dark(#d9d3ce, #201d1b);
+
+  /* Borders — a.ui, but mostly unused: this theme separates by warmth
+     and shadow, not by line. */
+  --color-border: light-dark(rgb(169 138 120 / 0.38), rgb(134 116 98 / 0.45));
+  --color-border-subtle: light-dark(
+    rgb(169 138 120 / 0.18),
+    rgb(134 116 98 / 0.22)
+  );
+
+  /* Accent — b.yellow, the spice. Hover walks it toward c.yellow's burn. */
+  --color-accent: light-dark(#a06d00, #ebc06d);
+  --color-accent-hover: light-dark(#bc5c00, #e49b5d);
+  --color-accent-soft: light-dark(
+    rgb(160 109 0 / 0.13),
+    rgb(235 192 109 / 0.15)
+  );
+  --color-focus-ring: light-dark(
+    rgb(160 109 0 / 0.35),
+    rgb(235 192 109 / 0.4)
+  );
+
+  /* Links */
+  --color-link: light-dark(#a06d00, #ebc06d);
+  --color-link-hover: light-dark(#bc5c00, #e49b5d);
+
+  /* Danger — b.red on d.red */
+  --color-danger: light-dark(#bf0021, #d47766);
+  --color-danger-bg: light-dark(#f1dedf, #7d2a2f);
+  --color-danger-hover: light-dark(#c77b8b, #bd8183);
+
+  /* Success — b.green on d.green */
+  --color-success: light-dark(#3a684a, #85b695);
+  --color-success-bg: light-dark(#d0e9d1, #233524);
+  --color-success-hover: light-dark(#6e9b72, #78997a);
+
+  /* Warning — c.yellow */
+  --color-warning: light-dark(#bc5c00, #e49b5d);
+
+  /* Overlays */
+  --color-overlay: light-dark(rgb(84 67 58 / 0.3), rgb(32 29 27 / 0.72));
+  --color-header-user-bg: transparent;
+  --color-header-user-bg-hover: light-dark(
+    rgb(84 67 58 / 0.07),
+    rgb(236 225 215 / 0.07)
+  );
+
+  /* Misc */
+  --color-option-bg: light-dark(#e9e1db, #34302c);
+  --color-option-border: light-dark(
+    rgb(169 138 120 / 0.18),
+    rgb(134 116 98 / 0.22)
+  );
+
+  /* The rest of the desert — melange's c.* row, dusty rather than bright.
+     These are the theme's own furniture colours. */
+  --mel-terracotta: light-dark(#bc5c00, #e49b5d);
+  --mel-olive: light-dark(#6e9b72, #78997a);
+  --mel-rose: light-dark(#be79bb, #b380b0);
+  --mel-clay: light-dark(#c77b8b, #bd8183);
+  --mel-dust: light-dark(#a98a78, #867462);
+
+  /* The mélange: every hue of the desert, blended once, left to right. */
+  --mel-spice: linear-gradient(
+    90deg,
+    var(--color-accent),
+    var(--mel-terracotta) 32%,
+    var(--mel-clay) 58%,
+    var(--mel-rose) 78%,
+    var(--mel-olive)
+  );
+
+  /* Shadows are warm and wide — sunlight, not a drop shadow. Light needs
+     more of them than dark: on plaster, shadow is the only thing holding
+     a card off the page. */
+  --shadow-color: light-dark(rgb(122 84 46 / 0.26), rgb(12 9 8 / 0.5));
+  --shadow-color-soft: light-dark(rgb(122 84 46 / 0.16), rgb(12 9 8 / 0.32));
+  --shadow-color-strong: light-dark(rgb(122 84 46 / 0.36), rgb(12 9 8 / 0.7));
+  --shadow-1: 0 2px 10px -2px var(--shadow-color-soft);
+  --shadow-2: 0 14px 34px -10px var(--shadow-color),
+    0 2px 6px var(--shadow-color-soft);
+  --shadow-3: 0 32px 70px -16px var(--shadow-color-strong),
+    0 3px 10px var(--shadow-color-soft);
+
+  /* Grain — one tile, two treatments (see body::after). Defaults are the
+     dark ones; the light scheme overrides them by selector. */
+  --mel-grain: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='160' height='160'%3E%3Cfilter id='g'%3E%3CfeTurbulence type='fractalNoise' baseFrequency='0.85' numOctaves='3' stitchTiles='stitch'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix type='saturate' values='0'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Crect width='160' height='160' filter='url(%23g)' opacity='0.22'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
+  --mel-grain-blend: soft-light;
+  --mel-grain-opacity: 0.55;
+
+  /* Glow: the spice catches light where it's interactive. */
+  --mel-glow: 0 3px 16px -4px
+    light-dark(rgb(160 109 0 / 0.45), rgb(235 192 109 / 0.35));
+
+  /* Component skins — no lines anywhere; warmth and shadow do the work. */
+  --border-width: 1px;
+  /* The header is a board laid over the page, lighter than it in both
+     schemes: a.float on coffee, the bleached tint on plaster. */
+  --header-bg: light-dark(#fdfbf9, #34302c);
+  --input-focus-bg: var(--color-surface-raised);
+  --overlay-filter: blur(6px);
+  --modal-border: transparent;
+  --card-border: transparent;
+  --card-border-width: 1px;
+  --card-shadow: var(--shadow-1);
+  --card-hover-border: transparent;
+  --panel-ring: var(--shadow-1);
+  --tab-border: transparent;
+  --btn-primary-shadow: var(--mel-glow);
+  --btn-primary-shadow-hover: 0 5px 22px -4px
+    light-dark(rgb(160 109 0 / 0.55), rgb(235 192 109 / 0.45));
+}
+
+/* ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+   Structural overrides
+   ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ */
+
+/* ── One cut of Fraunces, at one optical size, for every size of text ── */
+:root[data-style="melange"],
+[data-style="melange"] body {
+  font-optical-sizing: none;
+  font-variation-settings: "opsz" var(--mel-opsz), "SOFT" 40, "WONK" 0;
+}
+
+/* ── The page is sunlit: warm light pools at the top, the ground below
+      is flat desert. ───────────────────────────────────────────────── */
+[data-style="melange"] body {
+  background-image: radial-gradient(
+    120% 55% at 50% -12%,
+    var(--color-accent-soft),
+    transparent 70%
+  );
+  background-repeat: no-repeat;
+  background-attachment: fixed;
+}
+
+/* ── Film grain over everything, so no surface reads as flat pixels.
+      Sits above the page, below modals and toasts.
+
+      The two schemes need opposite grain. On coffee, `soft-light` grits
+      the surface without lifting the blacks. On plaster that same blend
+      is invisible — pale grey noise on a pale ground has nothing to
+      work against — so light multiplies instead, which is what paper
+      tooth actually is: tiny shadows. Neither blend nor opacity takes
+      light-dark(), so the two parameters are custom properties and the
+      scheme is picked by selector below. ───────────────────────────── */
+[data-style="melange"] body::after {
+  content: "";
+  position: fixed;
+  inset: 0;
+  z-index: calc(var(--z-modal) - 1);
+  pointer-events: none;
+  opacity: var(--mel-grain-opacity);
+  mix-blend-mode: var(--mel-grain-blend);
+  background-image: var(--mel-grain);
+}
+
+/* Auto (no forced scheme) follows the OS; the attribute forms win over
+   it because they come later and are more specific. */
+@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
+  :root[data-style="melange"] {
+    --mel-grain: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='200' height='200'%3E%3Cfilter id='g'%3E%3CfeTurbulence type='fractalNoise' baseFrequency='0.55' numOctaves='2' stitchTiles='stitch'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix type='saturate' values='0'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Crect width='200' height='200' filter='url(%23g)' opacity='0.42'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
+    --mel-grain-blend: multiply;
+    --mel-grain-opacity: 0.85;
+  }
+}
+
+:root[data-style="melange"][data-color-scheme="light"] {
+  --mel-grain: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='200' height='200'%3E%3Cfilter id='g'%3E%3CfeTurbulence type='fractalNoise' baseFrequency='0.55' numOctaves='2' stitchTiles='stitch'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix type='saturate' values='0'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Crect width='200' height='200' filter='url(%23g)' opacity='0.42'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
+  --mel-grain-blend: multiply;
+  --mel-grain-opacity: 0.85;
+}
+
+/* Repeats the fine tile too: forcing dark under a light OS would
+   otherwise inherit the coarse one from the media query above. */
+:root[data-style="melange"][data-color-scheme="dark"] {
+  --mel-grain: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='160' height='160'%3E%3Cfilter id='g'%3E%3CfeTurbulence type='fractalNoise' baseFrequency='0.85' numOctaves='3' stitchTiles='stitch'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix type='saturate' values='0'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Crect width='160' height='160' filter='url(%23g)' opacity='0.22'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
+  --mel-grain-blend: soft-light;
+  --mel-grain-opacity: 0.55;
+}
+
+@media (prefers-reduced-transparency: reduce) {
+  [data-style="melange"] body::after {
+    display: none;
+  }
+}
+
+/* ── Header — a board over the page: no rule under it, just its own
+      shade, a warm shadow, and the spice laid along its bottom edge as
+      a single blended stripe. ──────────────────────────────────────── */
+[data-style="melange"] .app-header {
+  border-bottom: none;
+  box-shadow: var(--shadow-1);
+  z-index: var(--z-raised);
+}
+
+[data-style="melange"] .app-header::after {
+  content: "";
+  position: absolute;
+  inset: auto 0 0 0;
+  height: 2px;
+  background: var(--mel-spice);
+  opacity: 0.7;
+}
+
+/* Brand — soft and a little wonky, the way 70s display type was cut. */
+[data-style="melange"] .app-header-brand {
+  color: var(--mel-terracotta);
+  font-weight: 600;
+  font-variation-settings: "opsz" var(--mel-opsz), "SOFT" 100, "WONK" 1;
+  letter-spacing: -0.01em;
+}
+
+[data-style="melange"] .form-page-title,
+[data-style="melange"] .profile-subpage-title,
+[data-style="melange"] .profile-section-title,
+[data-style="melange"] .comment-section-title,
+[data-style="melange"] .related-section-title {
+  font-variation-settings: "opsz" var(--mel-opsz), "SOFT" 80, "WONK" 1;
+}
+
+/* Tabs keep the shared uppercase cut, but the active one glows. */
+[data-style="melange"] .feed-sort-btn.active {
+  box-shadow: var(--mel-glow);
+}
+
+[data-style="melange"] .feed-sort-btn:hover:not(.active) {
+  background: var(--color-accent-soft);
+}
+
+/* ── Cards sit in the light rather than inside a line; they rise a
+      little when pointed at. ───────────────────────────────────────── */
+[data-style="melange"] .dump-card,
+[data-style="melange"] .journal-card,
+[data-style="melange"] .playlist-card {
+  transition:
+    box-shadow var(--dur-slow) var(--ease-out),
+    transform var(--dur-slow) var(--ease-out);
+}
+
+[data-style="melange"] .dump-card:hover,
+[data-style="melange"] .journal-card:hover,
+[data-style="melange"] .playlist-card:hover {
+  box-shadow: var(--shadow-2);
+  transform: translateY(-2px);
+}
+
+@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
+  [data-style="melange"] .dump-card:hover,
+  [data-style="melange"] .journal-card:hover,
+  [data-style="melange"] .playlist-card:hover {
+    transform: none;
+  }
+}
+
+/* ── Metadata is dust: quiet, warm, never black ──────────────────── */
+[data-style="melange"] .journal-card:not(.journal-card--image) .journal-card-meta,
+[data-style="melange"] .dump-card-date,
+[data-style="melange"] .comment-time,
+[data-style="melange"] .notification-time {
+  color: var(--mel-dust);
+}
+
+/* ── A quote is a printed pull-quote: big soft mark, terracotta ──── */
+[data-style="melange"] .journal-card--quote {
+  background: var(--color-surface);
+}
+
+[data-style="melange"] .journal-card-quotemark {
+  color: var(--mel-terracotta);
+  opacity: 0.28;
+  font-variation-settings: "opsz" var(--mel-opsz), "SOFT" 100, "WONK" 1;
+}
+
+[data-style="melange"] .journal-card-quote-body {
+  font-size: var(--text-lg);
+  line-height: 1.35;
+  font-variation-settings: "opsz" var(--mel-opsz), "SOFT" 70, "WONK" 0;
+}
+
+/* Vote tallies wear the dusty rose of the palette's far end */
+[data-style="melange"] .vote-btn:not(.vote-btn--active) {
+  color: var(--mel-rose);
+}