diff --git a/packages/web/public/icons/logo.png b/packages/web/public/icons/logo.png
index cfeff7c2..52eeb5fe 100644
Binary files a/packages/web/public/icons/logo.png and b/packages/web/public/icons/logo.png differ
diff --git a/packages/web/src/components/layout/SpaceSidebar.tsx b/packages/web/src/components/layout/SpaceSidebar.tsx
index c2eb464a..b3a2ae20 100644
--- a/packages/web/src/components/layout/SpaceSidebar.tsx
+++ b/packages/web/src/components/layout/SpaceSidebar.tsx
@@ -79,21 +79,13 @@ function SidebarItem({ id, name, icon, avatarColor, active, onClick, onContextMe
     }
 
     if (type === 'dm') {
-      // Home tile uses brand-tinted lavender (the endpoint of the mark's
-      // gradient — see assets/brand/mark.svg) so the bg is on-brand and
-      // visibly NOT grey against the cool-dark sidebar (any neutral tint
-      // reads as muddy grey-on-dark; only saturation breaks the grey).
-      // Discord's home button uses brand blurple the same way; ours uses
-      // accent-lavender. The bare mark in logo.png sits at 75% scale on
-      // transparent so the lavender tile is the visible frame, escalating
-      // at rest → hover → active for clear interaction feedback.
-      return {
-        background: active
-          ? 'rgba(196, 181, 253, 0.28)'
-          : isHovered
-            ? 'rgba(196, 181, 253, 0.16)'
-            : 'rgba(196, 181, 253, 0.08)',
-      };
+      // Home tile renders logo.png (full Element 1 badge with #000 bg)
+      // via object-cover; the badge IS the visible tile fill, so no
+      // separate button background is needed. The button's overflow-hidden
+      // + rounded-[20px → 13px] morph clips the opaque badge cleanly,
+      // giving the same hover/active feedback shape as space tiles with
+      // custom icons.
+      return undefined;
     }
 
     // Space type — if it has a custom icon image, no gradient needed
@@ -101,7 +93,7 @@ function SidebarItem({ id, name, icon, avatarColor, active, onClick, onContextMe
 
     const spaceGrad = getSpaceGradient(id, name, avatarColor);
     return { background: spaceGrad.gradient };
-  }, [type, id, name, icon, avatarColor, isHovered, active]);
+  }, [type, id, name, icon, avatarColor, isHovered]);
 
   const getButtonClasses = () => {
     const base = 'w-10 h-10 flex items-center justify-center duration-200 overflow-hidden [transition:border-radius_0.2s,background_0.2s,color_0.2s]';
diff --git a/scripts/gen-icons.README.md b/scripts/gen-icons.README.md
index 67f044d2..113c431e 100644
--- a/scripts/gen-icons.README.md
+++ b/scripts/gen-icons.README.md
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ git history clean.
 
 | Brand source                    | Drives                                        |
 |---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
-| `assets/brand/app-icon.svg`     | Every full app icon, all favicons, PWA       |
-| `assets/brand/mark.svg`         | Win/Linux tray, in-app `logo.png`, PWA maskable inner mark |
+| `assets/brand/app-icon.svg`     | Every full app icon, all favicons, PWA, in-app `logo.png` (with `#1d1d1b → #000` bg swap for sidebar contrast) |
+| `assets/brand/mark.svg`         | Win/Linux tray, PWA maskable inner mark      |
 | `assets/brand/mark-mono-dark.svg` | macOS menu-bar template (alpha + black)     |
 
 `Artworks-Backspace/` is the design archive — never read by this script.
diff --git a/scripts/gen-icons.mjs b/scripts/gen-icons.mjs
index e5fc3f6e..7b5b0cb9 100755
--- a/scripts/gen-icons.mjs
+++ b/scripts/gen-icons.mjs
@@ -204,15 +204,19 @@ async function main() {
   );
   trace('pwa-maskable', join(WEB_ICONS, 'icon-maskable-512.png'), `512 (60% mark on ${MASKABLE_BG})`);
 
-  // SpaceSidebar's 40×40 rounded-[20px] tile uses object-cover and provides
-  // its own dark surface (`bg-surface-*`). Render the bare mark on a
-  // transparent canvas at 75% scale: the sidebar's tile is the visual frame,
-  // the 25% padding keeps the mark off the squircle edges and out of the
-  // way of the active-state ring, and there's no warm-bg/cool-sidebar
-  // mismatch (the previous full-badge approach made #1d1d1b read as a
-  // visible warm-grey square inside the cool #1a1a23 sidebar).
-  await writeCenteredMarkPng(join(WEB_ICONS, 'logo.png'), mark, 256, 0.75, null);
-  trace('in-app-logo', join(WEB_ICONS, 'logo.png'), '256 (75% mark, transparent)');
+  // Logo for the SpaceSidebar home tile: full Element 1 badge with the
+  // bg fill swapped from #1d1d1b → #000000. The badge IS the brand
+  // identity at small sizes (full mark mass + own internal padding),
+  // and pure black against the sidebar's #1a1a23 reads as deliberately
+  // darker (intentional dark tile) rather than as a warm/cool mismatch
+  // (the original #1d1d1b looked like an off-grey rectangle). The
+  // sidebar's overflow-hidden + rounded-[20px → 13px] morph clips the
+  // badge cleanly because the bg is fully opaque.
+  const logoSvg = Buffer.from(
+    appIcon.toString('utf8').replace(/#1d1d1b/gi, '#000000'),
+  );
+  await writePng(join(WEB_ICONS, 'logo.png'), logoSvg, 256);
+  trace('in-app-logo', join(WEB_ICONS, 'logo.png'), '256 (full badge, #000)');
 
   // --- Summary ---
   const fmtBytes = (n) => {