diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 55f6bf9..17ea43d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -67,12 +67,15 @@ RUN python3 /app/code/patch_index.py && \
# PWA chrome colors: LibreChat ships a teal theme_color (#009688) in the web
# manifest (the bright green bar Firefox PWAs draw across the top) and black
-# background_color. Point both at the light page color (#eaf3ea dashboard green
-# wash — the manifest can only hold one value; custom2.js re-syncs the meta
-# tags to the app's actual theme at runtime). The index.html meta gets a
-# light + dark pair so browser/PWA chrome matches the phone theme natively.
-RUN sed -i 's|"theme_color": *"#009688"|"theme_color":"#eaf3ea"|; s|"background_color": *"#000000"|"background_color":"#eaf3ea"|' /app/code/librechat/client/dist/manifest.webmanifest && \
- sed -i 's||\n |' /app/code/librechat/client/dist/index.html
+# background_color. Point both at the light page color — CREAM #faf8f5, the
+# dashboard's page background (the manifest can only hold one value; custom2.js
+# re-syncs the meta tags to the app's actual theme at runtime). The index.html
+# meta gets a light + dark pair so browser/PWA chrome matches the phone theme
+# natively. KEEP THESE THREE IN SYNC: this sed, custom.css's html:not(.dark)
+# background, and custom2.js COOP_BG.light — the green wash #eaf3ea used to sit
+# in all three and made the installed app read as green.
+RUN sed -i 's|"theme_color": *"#009688"|"theme_color":"#faf8f5"|; s|"background_color": *"#000000"|"background_color":"#faf8f5"|' /app/code/librechat/client/dist/manifest.webmanifest && \
+ sed -i 's||\n |' /app/code/librechat/client/dist/index.html
# Log ownership guard: a host-side daily job creates the next day's dated log
# files in /app/data/logs as root:root at 00:00 UTC; LibreChat (cloudron user)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 87643fa..06c044e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -147,14 +147,19 @@ md5sum assets/custom.css
# 3. Served HTML carries the injection
curl -s https://chat.inference.coop/login | grep -Eo 'assets/custom2?\.js|assets/custom\.css'
# 4. Rendered DOM shows it (browser devtools or a browser tool). The DEPLOYED
-# palette is the GREEN WASH with white text areas — an earlier version of this
-# block asserted cream (rgb(250,248,245)), which would have led you to "fix"
-# a correct deploy:
-# computed background of div.bg-surface-primary == rgb(234, 243, 234);
-# chat text areas / composer == rgb(255, 255, 255);
+# palette is CREAM with white text areas — the dashboard's own look. (An
+# intermediate version shipped the full green wash #eaf3ea as the page
+# background and read as "too green" — cream is the intended value, so this
+# block asserts cream; do not "fix" a cream deploy back to the wash):
+# computed background of div.bg-surface-primary == rgb(250, 248, 245);
+# chat text areas == rgb(255, 255, 255); composer band == cream;
# dark scheme == rgb(34, 39, 31);
# the "Don't have an account?"
computes display: none.
-# 5. The scheduler task's script exists in THIS image — a manifest repoint
+# 5. INSTALL-TIME colors, which no DOM check covers — the web manifest and the
+# index.html light meta must be #faf8f5, not the wash:
+curl -s https://chat.inference.coop/manifest.webmanifest | grep -o '"theme_color":"[^"]*"'
+curl -s https://chat.inference.coop/ | grep -o 'media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" content="[^"]*"'
+# 6. The scheduler task's script exists in THIS image — a manifest repoint
# deployed before its image lands leaves the key seed broken on schedule:
cloudron --server my.inference.coop --token "$CLOUDRON_TOKEN" exec --app $APP \
-- test -f /app/data/sync-keys.js && echo "seed path present"
@@ -226,15 +231,17 @@ Set via `cloudron env set` (process env):
Injected into the built SPA by the Dockerfile (`` + `