diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/ui/core/core.css b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/ui/core/core.css
index 0409250..f408379 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/ui/core/core.css
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/ui/core/core.css
@@ -36,16 +36,30 @@
   }
 }
 
+/*
+ * Touch grows what is touched and tightens what is only read.
+ *
+ * The controls have to be bigger; the frame does not. Padding held at 1rem and
+ * the rows closed up buys back most of what the larger type costs, so turning
+ * a panel touch-friendly does not then ask for every tile to be resized.
+ */
 [data-touch] .dui-frame {
   --dui-control: 3rem;
   --dui-thumb: 1.5rem;
   --dui-text: 1rem;
-  padding: 1.25rem;
+  gap: 0.25rem;
+  line-height: 1.25;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Pulled up half a step, so the title reads from the centre of the corner
+ * radius rather than from below it — and the body, which is what anyone is
+ * actually looking at, gets that half step back.
+ */
 .dui-frame-head {
   display: flex;
   min-width: 0;
+  margin-top: -0.5rem;
   align-items: flex-start;
   justify-content: space-between;
   gap: 0.5rem;