diff --git a/frontend/src/assets/pagerite.css b/frontend/src/assets/pagerite.css
index e745945..e67e7f8 100644
--- a/frontend/src/assets/pagerite.css
+++ b/frontend/src/assets/pagerite.css
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@
   box-sizing: border-box;
 }
 
+::selection {
+  background: color-mix(var(--accent) 30%, transparent);
+  color: inherit;
+}
+
 /* Links never underline — including SVG link text, which the UA stylesheet
    underlines by default. */
 a {
diff --git a/pagerite/themes/corporate/theme.css b/pagerite/themes/corporate/theme.css
index ff060ae..5e26562 100644
--- a/pagerite/themes/corporate/theme.css
+++ b/pagerite/themes/corporate/theme.css
@@ -32,11 +32,6 @@
   }
 }
 
-::selection {
-  background: var(--accent);
-  color: #fff;
-}
-
 /* Genuinely large solid brand with a soft blue shadow overlapping the
    artwork — conservative, but unmissable. */
 #brand {
diff --git a/pagerite/themes/nitro/theme.css b/pagerite/themes/nitro/theme.css
index c7a402f..c5424d7 100644
--- a/pagerite/themes/nitro/theme.css
+++ b/pagerite/themes/nitro/theme.css
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@
 
 ::selection {
   background: var(--accent);
-  color: var(--ink);
 }
 
 /* Oversized outlined brand, spilling off the banner edge: orange stroke,
diff --git a/pagerite/themes/purple/theme.css b/pagerite/themes/purple/theme.css
index 2bcf3e6..6f09af0 100644
--- a/pagerite/themes/purple/theme.css
+++ b/pagerite/themes/purple/theme.css
@@ -19,11 +19,6 @@
   --font-heading: var(--font-fraunces);
 }
 
-::selection {
-  background: var(--accent2);
-  color: #fff;
-}
-
 /* Oversized tilted brand in the sky→violet gradient. */
 #brand {
   font-size: clamp(3.2rem, 9vw, 7.5rem);
diff --git a/pagerite/themes/summer/theme.css b/pagerite/themes/summer/theme.css
index b0ac255..8507b37 100644
--- a/pagerite/themes/summer/theme.css
+++ b/pagerite/themes/summer/theme.css
@@ -57,11 +57,6 @@ body {
   color: var(--text);
 }
 
-::selection {
-  background: var(--sun);
-  color: #3d5223;
-}
-
 /* No separation between banner and page: the frame loses its background,
    border and shadow, and the artwork overflows into the document below,
    masked by a transparency gradient so it cross-fades into the body's fixed