diff --git a/web/src/app/pattern-lab/LabPanels.module.css b/web/src/app/pattern-lab/LabPanels.module.css
index f1ceff358..21d6bccb1 100644
--- a/web/src/app/pattern-lab/LabPanels.module.css
+++ b/web/src/app/pattern-lab/LabPanels.module.css
@@ -499,6 +499,14 @@
   .layerControlRow select {
     min-height: 44px;
   }
+
+  /* A finger has no Alt key, right button or middle button. On a 390×844
+     phone this line wrapped the Pixel status bar to 51px, which left the
+     picture a 372×151 viewport and fitted it at 1×. Without it the viewport
+     is 372×177, and 2× needs 168. */
+  .pixelMouseHint {
+    display: none;
+  }
 }
 
 /* ── Pixel editor panel ── */
diff --git a/web/src/app/pattern-lab/labCss.test.ts b/web/src/app/pattern-lab/labCss.test.ts
index de61262e5..9accfc178 100644
--- a/web/src/app/pattern-lab/labCss.test.ts
+++ b/web/src/app/pattern-lab/labCss.test.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
 // and 44×44px after, in a header 59px tall both times. On a 390×844 touch
 // screen the tab strip under Preview was 736px for 333px of room, and every
 // tab carried a 27×27px ×. Without the × it is 520px and Knobs shows whole.
-// On the same screen Del was 37×28px, the layer eye 20×17px and Push 40×22px.
+// On the same screen Del was 37×28px, the layer eye 20×17px and Push 40×22px,
+// and the Pixel status bar was 51px, two lines with the mouse gestures.
 
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { createRequire } from "node:module";
@@ -168,3 +169,14 @@ describe("Layers and Knobs on a touch screen", () => {
     expect(knobs.lastIndexOf("@media (hover: none) {")).toBeGreaterThan(knobs.indexOf("@media (max-width: 980px) {"));
   });
 });
+
+describe("Pixel status line on a touch screen", () => {
+  const dock = css("LabPanels.module.css");
+  const pixel = css("panels/PixelPanel.tsx");
+
+  it("drops the mouse gestures, and nothing else", () => {
+    expect(mediaRule(dock, "(hover: none)", ".pixelMouseHint")).toMatch(/display: none;/);
+    expect(pixel).toContain("<span className={dock.pixelMouseHint}>alt-click picks · right-drag erases · middle-drag pans</span>");
+    expect(mediaRule(dock, "(hover: none)", ".pixelStatus")).toBe("");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/PixelPanel.test.tsx b/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/PixelPanel.test.tsx
index e6514806a..dedbb95f3 100644
--- a/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/PixelPanel.test.tsx
+++ b/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/PixelPanel.test.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import { act, createEvent, fireEvent, render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
 import PixelPanel from "./PixelPanel";
+import { zoomToFit } from "./pixel/usePixelViewport";
 import { useLabStore } from "@/lib/lab/store";
 import type { PixelLayer } from "@/lib/lab/types";
 
@@ -285,13 +286,20 @@ describe("PixelPanel", () => {
   };
 
   it("on a phone the picture opens fitted, all of it in view", () => {
-    // the Pixel viewport on a 390×844 phone, measured in Chromium
-    panelSize(372, 151);
+    // the Pixel viewport on a 390×844 touch phone, measured in Chromium
+    panelSize(372, 177);
     mount();
-    expect(screen.getByText("zoom 1×")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getByText("zoom 2×")).toBeTruthy();
     // and the zoom stays the user's to change
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText("Zoom in"));
-    expect(screen.getByText("zoom 2×")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getByText("zoom 3×")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  it("the mouse gestures sit apart in the status line, where a touch screen can drop them", () => {
+    mount();
+    const hint = screen.getByText("alt-click picks · right-drag erases · middle-drag pans");
+    expect(hint.className).toBe("pixelMouseHint");
+    expect(hint.parentElement?.textContent).toContain("zoom 6×");
   });
 
   it("a desktop panel narrower than the picture at 6× opens fitted too", () => {
@@ -440,3 +448,13 @@ describe("PixelPanel", () => {
     expect(screen.queryByTitle(/Stamp the selection down/)).toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+describe("zoomToFit", () => {
+  it("fits 128×64 at 2× from a 168px-tall viewport, 64 × 2 and 40 of padding", () => {
+    expect(zoomToFit(372, 167, 128, 64)).toBe(1);
+    expect(zoomToFit(372, 168, 128, 64)).toBe(2);
+    // a 390×844 phone, with and without the mouse gestures under the picture
+    expect(zoomToFit(372, 151, 128, 64)).toBe(1);
+    expect(zoomToFit(372, 177, 128, 64)).toBe(2);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/PixelPanel.tsx b/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/PixelPanel.tsx
index ec6f8708b..9a2430d29 100644
--- a/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/PixelPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/PixelPanel.tsx
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ export default function PixelPanel() {
           </span>
         )}
         <span style={{ flex: 1 }} />
-        <span>alt-click picks · right-drag erases · middle-drag pans</span>
+        <span className={dock.pixelMouseHint}>alt-click picks · right-drag erases · middle-drag pans</span>
       </div>
 
       {importOpen && (
diff --git a/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/pixel/usePixelViewport.ts b/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/pixel/usePixelViewport.ts
index f3d882e44..9c9bacff3 100644
--- a/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/pixel/usePixelViewport.ts
+++ b/web/src/app/pattern-lab/panels/pixel/usePixelViewport.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ export const ZOOM_MAX = 32;
 /**
  * The largest whole zoom that shows the picture entire inside a viewport of
  * this size: 16 px of padding a side and 4 px of air. Never below 1×. For
- * 128×64 that is 1× in a 390×844 phone's 372×151 viewport, and 4× in the
+ * 128×64 that is 2× in a 390×844 phone's 372×177 viewport, and 4× in the
  * 649×648 one at 1440×900.
  */
 export function zoomToFit(viewportWidth: number, viewportHeight: number, width: number, height: number) {