diff --git a/docs/assets/sesh-ui-menu.png b/docs/assets/sesh-ui-menu.png
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diff --git a/docs/assets/sesh-ui-search.png b/docs/assets/sesh-ui-search.png
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diff --git a/docs/assets/sesh-ui.png b/docs/assets/sesh-ui.png
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diff --git a/internal/tui/actions.go b/internal/tui/actions.go
index 0be91341..957af03d 100644
--- a/internal/tui/actions.go
+++ b/internal/tui/actions.go
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ func (m *Model) drawOverlay(base string) string {
 			k = th.key(key)
 		}
 		if i == ov.sel {
-			return lipgloss.NewStyle().Background(th.selBg).Render(th.accented().Render("▌") + " " + fitTo(th.style().Bold(true).Render(text), w-12) + " " + k)
+			return th.selectedRow(text, w-12) + k
 		}
 		return "  " + fitTo(th.style().Render(text), w-12) + " " + k
 	}
diff --git a/internal/tui/theme.go b/internal/tui/theme.go
index a746aecd..6644255a 100644
--- a/internal/tui/theme.go
+++ b/internal/tui/theme.go
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ type theme struct {
 func newTheme(dark bool) theme {
 	c := lipgloss.LightDark(dark)
 	return theme{
-		accent:    c(lipgloss.Color("#6E40C9"), lipgloss.Color("#B392F0")),
+		// The logo's blue; for a dark terminal, a lighter blue of the same hue.
+		accent:    c(lipgloss.Color("#1165B1"), lipgloss.Color("#63ADEE")),
 		text:      c(lipgloss.Color("#1F2328"), lipgloss.Color("#E6EDF3")),
 		dim:       c(lipgloss.Color("#59636E"), lipgloss.Color("#8B949E")),
 		faint:     c(lipgloss.Color("#B7BDC8"), lipgloss.Color("#3D444D")),
@@ -27,8 +28,8 @@ func newTheme(dark bool) theme {
 		ok:        c(lipgloss.Color("#1A7F37"), lipgloss.Color("#3FB950")),
 		warn:      c(lipgloss.Color("#9A6700"), lipgloss.Color("#D29922")),
 		bad:       c(lipgloss.Color("#CF222E"), lipgloss.Color("#F85149")),
-		selBg:     c(lipgloss.Color("#F3EEFF"), lipgloss.Color("#2A2140")),
-		badgeText: c(lipgloss.Color("#FFFFFF"), lipgloss.Color("#1B1325")),
+		selBg:     c(lipgloss.Color("#ECF3FB"), lipgloss.Color("#13233A")),
+		badgeText: c(lipgloss.Color("#FFFFFF"), lipgloss.Color("#0B1A2B")),
 		keyBg:     c(lipgloss.Color("#E6EAEF"), lipgloss.Color("#262C36")),
 	}
 }
@@ -40,6 +41,21 @@ func (t *theme) accented() lipgloss.Style {
 	return lipgloss.NewStyle().Foreground(t.accent)
 }
 
+// selectedRow is a panel's selected row up to its key: its bar, then
+// label cut or padded to w, and a space, on one band of the selection's
+// colour. The label's style, band and bold, is put back after each reset
+// in it, so a label with colours of its own (the trash's dimmed details,
+// a to-do's arrow) stays on the band, and bold.
+func (t *theme) selectedRow(label string, w int) string {
+	on := lipgloss.NewStyle().Background(t.selBg)
+	style := t.style().Bold(true).Background(t.selBg)
+	start, _, _ := strings.Cut(style.Render("x"), "x")
+	label = style.Render(ansi.Truncate(label, w, "…"))
+	label = strings.ReplaceAll(strings.ReplaceAll(label, "\x1b[0m", "\x1b[m"), "\x1b[m", "\x1b[m"+start)
+	pad := on.Render(strings.Repeat(" ", max(w-lipgloss.Width(label), 0)))
+	return t.accented().Background(t.selBg).Render("▌") + on.Render(" ") + label + pad + on.Render(" ")
+}
+
 // key is a key's name drawn as a key: a small label.
 func (t *theme) key(name string) string {
 	return lipgloss.NewStyle().Foreground(t.accent).Background(t.keyBg).Bold(true).Padding(0, 1).Render(name)
diff --git a/internal/tui/tui_test.go b/internal/tui/tui_test.go
index 038eec2b..15ca9f7a 100644
--- a/internal/tui/tui_test.go
+++ b/internal/tui/tui_test.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"sync/atomic"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
+	"unicode/utf8"
 
 	tea "charm.land/bubbletea/v2"
 	"charm.land/lipgloss/v2"
@@ -1253,6 +1254,107 @@ func TestActionMenu(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// cellBackgrounds is line's characters, the true-colour background code
+// ("48;2;r;g;b", or "" for none) each is drawn on, and whether each is bold.
+func cellBackgrounds(line string) ([]rune, []string, []bool) {
+	var text []rune
+	var bgs []string
+	var bolds []bool
+	bg, bold := "", false
+	for rest := line; rest != ""; {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(rest, "\x1b[") {
+			end := strings.IndexByte(rest, 'm')
+			params := strings.Split(rest[2:end], ";")
+			for k := 0; k < len(params); k++ {
+				switch p := params[k]; {
+				case p == "" || p == "0":
+					bg, bold = "", false
+				case p == "49":
+					bg = ""
+				case p == "1":
+					bold = true
+				case p == "22":
+					bold = false
+				case p == "48" && k+4 < len(params) && params[k+1] == "2":
+					bg = strings.Join(params[k:k+5], ";")
+					k += 4
+				case (p == "38" || p == "58") && k+1 < len(params) && params[k+1] == "2":
+					k += 4
+				}
+			}
+			rest = rest[end+1:]
+			continue
+		}
+		c, size := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(rest)
+		text = append(text, c)
+		bgs = append(bgs, bg)
+		bolds = append(bolds, bold)
+		rest = rest[size:]
+	}
+	return text, bgs, bolds
+}
+
+// bandCode is the background code the selection's colour is drawn with.
+func bandCode(th *theme) string {
+	r, g, b, _ := th.selBg.RGBA()
+	return fmt.Sprintf("48;2;%d;%d;%d", r>>8, g>>8, b>>8)
+}
+
+// A menu's selected row is one band of colour, across the gap between its label and its key.
+func TestMenuSelectedRowBand(t *testing.T) {
+	a := wideApp(t, newFake())
+	a.press("ctrl+g")
+	want := bandCode(&a.th)
+	for line := range strings.SplitSeq(a.View().Content, "\n") {
+		if !strings.Contains(ansi.Strip(line), "add an entry…") {
+			continue
+		}
+		runes, bgs, _ := cellBackgrounds(line)
+		from := strings.Index(string(runes), "add an entry…")
+		from = utf8.RuneCountInString(string(runes)[:from]) + utf8.RuneCountInString("add an entry…")
+		// Up to the key's label, which starts with its own padding space.
+		end := from
+		for end < len(runes) && runes[end] == ' ' {
+			end++
+		}
+		if end-1-from < 10 {
+			t.Fatalf("no gap after the label: %q", line)
+		}
+		for k := from; k < end-1; k++ {
+			if bgs[k] != want {
+				t.Fatalf("the gap after the selected row's label isn't in the band, at %d: %q", k, line)
+			}
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	t.Fatalf("no selected row:\n%s", a.screen())
+}
+
+// A selected row whose label has colours of its own (the trash's, a to-do's) stays on the band, and bold, throughout.
+func TestSelectedRowStyledLabel(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, dark := range []bool{true, false} {
+		th := newTheme(dark)
+		label := th.accented().Render("→") + " run sesh doctor " + th.dimmed().Render("deleted 3 days ago")
+		row := th.selectedRow(label, 40)
+		runes, bgs, bolds := cellBackgrounds(row)
+		if string(runes) != "▌ → run sesh doctor deleted 3 days ago     " {
+			t.Fatalf("dark %v: row %q", dark, string(runes))
+		}
+		for k, bg := range bgs {
+			if bg != bandCode(&th) {
+				t.Fatalf("dark %v: %q at %d isn't on the band: %q", dark, runes[k], k, row)
+			}
+		}
+		// The words after the arrow's colour are bold, as the row's are.
+		from := slices.Index(runes, 'r')
+		for k := from; k < from+len("run sesh doctor"); k++ {
+			if !bolds[k] {
+				t.Fatalf("dark %v: %q at %d isn't bold: %q", dark, runes[k], k, row)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 // Ctrl-G opens sesh's own actions from the search, the list or the sidebar; Ctrl-K with no entry to act on does too.
 func TestSeshMenu(t *testing.T) {
 	a := wideApp(t, newFake())