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diff --git a/public/manifest.json b/public/manifest.json
index d2cf57a9..1eb3d6b9 100644
--- a/public/manifest.json
+++ b/public/manifest.json
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
       "purpose": "any"
     },
     {
-      "src": "/icons/android-chrome-192x192.png",
+      "src": "/icons/icon-maskable-192x192.png",
       "sizes": "192x192",
       "type": "image/png",
       "purpose": "maskable"
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
       "purpose": "any"
     },
     {
-      "src": "/icons/android-chrome-512x512.png",
+      "src": "/icons/icon-maskable-512x512.png",
       "sizes": "512x512",
       "type": "image/png",
       "purpose": "maskable"
diff --git a/scripts/generate-icons.js b/scripts/generate-icons.js
index 918ae330..50ba33ed 100644
--- a/scripts/generate-icons.js
+++ b/scripts/generate-icons.js
@@ -63,6 +63,86 @@ const ICON_SIZES = [
 const SVG_PATH = './public/favicon.svg';
 const ICONS_DIR = './public/icons';
 
+// Maskable icons are a separate family from the ones above, not a re-label of
+// them. Android applies a platform mask (circle, squircle, teardrop...) and
+// guarantees only the central circle of 80% diameter survives, so a maskable
+// icon needs two things the `any` icons must NOT have: an opaque background,
+// and the artwork pulled inside that safe circle. The manifest used to point
+// both purposes at the same full-bleed transparent file, which meant Android
+// cropped 4.3% of the logo and showed the mask through the transparent pixels.
+const MASKABLE_SIZES = [192, 512];
+
+// The spec's safe circle has radius 0.40 of the icon width. Targeting 0.39
+// leaves a hair of slack: scaling to exactly 0.40 lands antialiased edge
+// pixels a fraction over the line once the artwork is downscaled to integer
+// dimensions, which the generated-icon test then flags.
+const SAFE_ZONE_RATIO = 0.39;
+
+// Matches manifest.json's `background_color`, so the installed icon and the
+// splash screen it launches into share a background.
+const MASKABLE_BACKGROUND = { r: 255, g: 255, b: 255, alpha: 1 };
+
+/**
+ * Distance from the centre of `buffer` to its farthest non-transparent pixel.
+ *
+ * Scaling by this rather than by the bounding box matters because the artwork
+ * is an irregular glyph: its bounding-box corners are empty, so the box-based
+ * rule would shrink it further than the mask actually requires.
+ */
+async function contentRadius(buffer) {
+  const { data, info } = await sharp(buffer).ensureAlpha().raw().toBuffer({ resolveWithObject: true });
+  const { width, height, channels } = info;
+  const cx = width / 2;
+  const cy = height / 2;
+  let maxRadius = 0;
+
+  for (let y = 0; y < height; y++) {
+    for (let x = 0; x < width; x++) {
+      if (data[(y * width + x) * channels + 3] < 16) continue;
+      const radius = Math.hypot(x + 0.5 - cx, y + 0.5 - cy);
+      if (radius > maxRadius) maxRadius = radius;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return maxRadius;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Render one maskable icon: trim the artwork to its opaque bounds, scale it so
+ * nothing escapes the safe circle, centre it, and flatten onto a solid colour.
+ *
+ * Trimming also re-centres the glyph — it sits off-centre in favicon.svg's
+ * viewBox (82px of padding on the left, 50px on the right), which a plain
+ * resize preserves and the mask then crops unevenly.
+ */
+async function generateMaskableIcon(svgBuffer, size) {
+  // Render at 2x so the trim finds precise edges before anything is downscaled.
+  const rendered = await sharp(svgBuffer, { density: 600 })
+    .resize(size * 2, size * 2, { fit: 'contain', background: { r: 0, g: 0, b: 0, alpha: 0 } })
+    .png()
+    .toBuffer();
+
+  const trimmed = await sharp(rendered).trim({ threshold: 1 }).png().toBuffer();
+  const { width, height } = await sharp(trimmed).metadata();
+  const scale = (SAFE_ZONE_RATIO * size) / (await contentRadius(trimmed));
+  const artWidth = Math.max(1, Math.round(width * scale));
+  const artHeight = Math.max(1, Math.round(height * scale));
+
+  const art = await sharp(trimmed).resize(artWidth, artHeight, { fit: 'fill' }).png().toBuffer();
+
+  return sharp({
+    create: { width: size, height: size, channels: 4, background: MASKABLE_BACKGROUND }
+  })
+    .composite([{
+      input: art,
+      left: Math.round((size - artWidth) / 2),
+      top: Math.round((size - artHeight) / 2)
+    }])
+    .flatten({ background: MASKABLE_BACKGROUND })
+    .png({ quality: 95, compressionLevel: 9 })
+    .toBuffer();
+}
+
 async function generateIcons() {
   try {
     console.log('🎨 Generating PNG icons from SVG...');
@@ -81,14 +161,10 @@ async function generateIcons() {
       const w = width ?? size;
       const h = height ?? size;
 
-      // `background` only paints the letterbox `fit: 'contain'` adds, and
-      // favicon.svg is square, so for every square icon here it paints nothing.
-      // The old `needsSolidBackground` branch that set an opaque background for
-      // PWA icons was therefore a no-op — the committed icons have always had
-      // transparent pixels. Giving the manifest's maskable 192/512 icons a
-      // genuinely opaque background needs `.flatten()` plus safe-zone padding,
-      // which changes how the installed icon looks; that's a deliberate design
-      // change rather than something to fold into the generator silently.
+      // These stay transparent on purpose. `background` only paints the
+      // letterbox `fit: 'contain'` adds, and favicon.svg is square, so it
+      // paints nothing here — which is right for `purpose: "any"`, favicons
+      // and Windows tiles. Only the maskable family below is flattened.
       await sharp(svgBuffer)
         .resize(w, h, {
           fit: 'contain',
@@ -103,10 +179,17 @@ async function generateIcons() {
       console.log(`✅ Generated ${name} (${w}x${h})`);
     }
     
+    for (const size of MASKABLE_SIZES) {
+      const name = `icon-maskable-${size}x${size}.png`;
+      const buffer = await generateMaskableIcon(svgBuffer, size);
+      await fs.writeFile(path.join(ICONS_DIR, name), buffer);
+      console.log(`✅ Generated ${name} (${size}x${size}, opaque, safe-zone padded)`);
+    }
+
     // favicon-16x16 / favicon-32x32 are part of ICON_SIZES above now; the old
     // extra pass wrote them to static/favicon-{16,32}.png, a path nothing reads.
     console.log('\n🎉 Icon generation complete!');
-    console.log(`📁 Generated ${ICON_SIZES.length} PNG icons in ${ICONS_DIR}/`);
+    console.log(`📁 Generated ${ICON_SIZES.length + MASKABLE_SIZES.length} PNG icons in ${ICONS_DIR}/`);
     
   } catch (error) {
     console.error('❌ Error generating icons:', error);
diff --git a/tests/pwa-installability.test.js b/tests/pwa-installability.test.js
index de6dc23a..005e78de 100644
--- a/tests/pwa-installability.test.js
+++ b/tests/pwa-installability.test.js
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
 import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { resolve } from 'node:path';
+import sharp from 'sharp';
 
 const ROOT = resolve(process.cwd());
 const readText = (p) => readFileSync(resolve(ROOT, p), 'utf8');
@@ -127,7 +128,15 @@ describe('PWA installability', () => {
       expect(installer).not.toMatch(/\.\/static\//);
     });
 
-    const generated = [...generator.matchAll(/name:\s*'([^']+)'/g)].map((m) => m[1]);
+    // ICON_SIZES entries carry a literal `name:`; the maskable family is built
+    // from MASKABLE_SIZES with a templated filename, so collect both.
+    const maskableSizes = [
+      ...(generator.match(/MASKABLE_SIZES\s*=\s*\[([^\]]*)\]/)?.[1] ?? '').matchAll(/\d+/g)
+    ].map((m) => `icon-maskable-${m[0]}x${m[0]}.png`);
+    const generated = [
+      ...[...generator.matchAll(/name:\s*'([^']+)'/g)].map((m) => m[1]),
+      ...maskableSizes
+    ];
 
     it('regenerates every icon the manifest points at', () => {
       for (const icon of manifest.icons) {
@@ -154,4 +163,74 @@ describe('PWA installability', () => {
       }
     });
   });
+
+  // Android masks these to a circle/squircle/teardrop of its choosing and only
+  // guarantees the central circle of 80% diameter survives. Both properties
+  // below were violated when the manifest aimed `purpose: "maskable"` at the
+  // same full-bleed transparent PNGs it used for `purpose: "any"`.
+  describe('maskable icons', () => {
+    const manifest = JSON.parse(readText('public/manifest.json'));
+    const maskable = manifest.icons.filter((icon) =>
+      String(icon.purpose ?? '').split(/\s+/).includes('maskable')
+    );
+
+    it('does not reuse an `any` icon for `maskable`', () => {
+      const anySources = new Set(
+        manifest.icons
+          .filter((icon) => !String(icon.purpose ?? '').split(/\s+/).includes('maskable'))
+          .map((icon) => icon.src)
+      );
+
+      expect(maskable.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      for (const icon of maskable) {
+        expect(anySources.has(icon.src)).toBe(false);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it.each(maskable.map((icon) => icon.src))('%s is fully opaque', async (src) => {
+      const { data, info } = await sharp(resolve(ROOT, 'public', src.replace(/^\//, '')))
+        .ensureAlpha()
+        .raw()
+        .toBuffer({ resolveWithObject: true });
+
+      let minAlpha = 255;
+      for (let i = 3; i < data.length; i += info.channels) {
+        if (data[i] < minAlpha) minAlpha = data[i];
+      }
+
+      // A transparent maskable icon lets the platform mask show through, so the
+      // launcher draws the logo over bare wallpaper instead of a solid tile.
+      expect(minAlpha).toBe(255);
+    });
+
+    it.each(maskable.map((icon) => icon.src))('%s keeps its artwork inside the safe zone', async (src) => {
+      const { data, info } = await sharp(resolve(ROOT, 'public', src.replace(/^\//, '')))
+        .ensureAlpha()
+        .raw()
+        .toBuffer({ resolveWithObject: true });
+      const { width, height, channels } = info;
+
+      // Corner pixel is background by construction; anything differing from it
+      // is artwork that the mask could clip.
+      const bg = [data[0], data[1], data[2]];
+      const cx = width / 2;
+      const cy = height / 2;
+      const safeRadius = 0.4 * width;
+      let maxRadius = 0;
+
+      for (let y = 0; y < height; y++) {
+        for (let x = 0; x < width; x++) {
+          const i = (y * width + x) * channels;
+          const delta =
+            Math.abs(data[i] - bg[0]) + Math.abs(data[i + 1] - bg[1]) + Math.abs(data[i + 2] - bg[2]);
+          if (delta < 24) continue;
+          const radius = Math.hypot(x + 0.5 - cx, y + 0.5 - cy);
+          if (radius > maxRadius) maxRadius = radius;
+        }
+      }
+
+      expect(maxRadius).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      expect(maxRadius).toBeLessThanOrEqual(safeRadius);
+    });
+  });
 });