diff --git a/packages/core/templates/partials/slide-styles.eta b/packages/core/templates/partials/slide-styles.eta
index b12ea78..248dd20 100644
--- a/packages/core/templates/partials/slide-styles.eta
+++ b/packages/core/templates/partials/slide-styles.eta
@@ -761,17 +761,9 @@
     grid-row: 3;
   }
 
-  /* Density tiers add margin-bottom to every <p> in the slide for
-     readable vertical lists; the colophon text already has its
-     own row-gap rhythm and doesn't want that extra space (which
-     also shifts the optical center of the name away from the
-     avatar's grid-row centerline). Two-class selector beats the
-     density rule's specificity. */
-  morkdeck-slide .colophon .colophon-speaker,
-  morkdeck-slide .colophon .colophon-byline,
-  morkdeck-slide .colophon .colophon-context {
-    margin: 0;
-  }
+  /* (Margin reset for these elements is now folded into the
+     compound-class rules below, which also fix the density-tier
+     font-size override.) */
 
   /* Outro: vertical stack. The big circular portrait sits above
      the text block; speaker / byline / context flow as a column. */
@@ -823,7 +815,16 @@
   /* Speaker name owns its line so the bolder weight and full Text
      color can carry the identity moment without the secondaries
      crowding into it. */
-  morkdeck-slide .colophon-speaker {
+  /* Two-class compound selectors (`.colophon .colophon-*`) for the
+     three colophon <p> elements. The density tiers re-target every
+     <p> in the slide (`morkdeck-slide[data-density="dense"] p` at
+     specificity 0,1,2) to shrink running body for packed slides; a
+     single-class rule (`morkdeck-slide .colophon-speaker` at 0,1,1)
+     loses that specificity battle and the colophon collapses to the
+     dense body size. Compound class lifts to 0,2,1 so the colophon
+     scale survives density auto-fit on title slides. Same pattern as
+     the colophon-socials li margin reset further down. */
+  morkdeck-slide .colophon .colophon-speaker {
     margin: 0;
     font-size: var(--morkdeck-dimension-size-colophon-name);
     font-weight: var(--morkdeck-fontWeight-bold);
@@ -838,7 +839,7 @@
      and handle share size + weight + color so they're peers; their
      only typographic differentiator is the axis that carries
      meaning (slnt/CASL for italic aside, MONO for identifier). */
-  morkdeck-slide .colophon-byline {
+  morkdeck-slide .colophon .colophon-byline {
     margin: 0;
     font-size: var(--morkdeck-dimension-size-colophon-byline);
     font-weight: var(--morkdeck-fontWeight-regular);
@@ -855,7 +856,7 @@
     font-variation-settings: "MONO" 1;
   }
 
-  morkdeck-slide .colophon-context {
+  morkdeck-slide .colophon .colophon-context {
     margin: 0;
     font-family: var(--morkdeck-fontFamily-mono);
     font-variation-settings: "MONO" 1;