diff --git a/src/layouts/Base.astro b/src/layouts/Base.astro
index 3d335e5..9626d1e 100644
--- a/src/layouts/Base.astro
+++ b/src/layouts/Base.astro
@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@ const jsonLd = {
       );
       document.querySelectorAll('.reveal').forEach((el) => observer.observe(el));
 
+      // Past the bottom of the page, the footer's colour rather than the theme's.
+      const footer = document.querySelector('footer');
+      if (footer) {
+        new IntersectionObserver(([entry]) =>
+          document.documentElement.classList.toggle('at-end', entry.isIntersecting),
+        ).observe(footer);
+      }
+
       // Besides page views, GoatCounter counts what a visitor came for: a PDF
       // downloaded (CV, thesis), an email started, or a link followed out.
       declare global {
diff --git a/src/styles/global.css b/src/styles/global.css
index 0987824..600fc47 100644
--- a/src/styles/global.css
+++ b/src/styles/global.css
@@ -106,6 +106,15 @@
 html {
   scroll-behavior: smooth;
   scroll-padding-top: 80px;
+  /* What a browser shows past the page's edges: behind Safari's toolbar on
+     iPhone, and when a scroll bounces. The theme's background at the top, the
+     footer's green once the footer is on screen (set in Base.astro), so the
+     page never ends on a band of another colour. */
+  background: var(--bg);
+}
+
+html.at-end {
+  background: var(--closing);
 }
 
 body {
diff --git a/tests/site.spec.ts b/tests/site.spec.ts
index 50204d5..6229ca8b 100644
--- a/tests/site.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/site.spec.ts
@@ -238,6 +238,21 @@ test('starts the name near the top on a phone, under a navigation that floats',
   await expect(page.locator('#nav')).not.toHaveCSS('background-color', 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)');
 });
 
+test("paints past the page's edges in the theme's colour, then the footer's", async ({ page }) => {
+  await page.goto('/');
+  const html = page.locator('html');
+  const background = (selector: string) =>
+    page.locator(selector).evaluate((el) => getComputedStyle(el).backgroundColor);
+
+  // At the top, what shows past the edge matches the page.
+  expect(await background('html')).toBe(await background('body'));
+
+  // At the bottom, behind Safari's toolbar, it matches the footer.
+  await page.locator('footer').scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
+  await expect(html).toHaveClass(/at-end/);
+  await expect(html).toHaveCSS('background-color', await background('footer'));
+});
+
 test('counts the visit, and the CV, the thesis, an email and a link out', async ({ page }) => {
   // A stand-in for GoatCounter's script, which records what it is given.
   await page.route('https://gc.zgo.at/count.js', (route) =>