diff --git a/web/src/app/globals.css b/web/src/app/globals.css
index 2bd596d45..e0dbada15 100644
--- a/web/src/app/globals.css
+++ b/web/src/app/globals.css
@@ -1364,9 +1364,16 @@
   .journal-post-list a.journal-anchor-post .journal-list-meta:last-child {
     color: var(--pf-led);
   }
+  /* Both journal footers are <footer>s, so the front page's footer rule
+     gave them 60px a side from 901px and 0 below it. Each now keeps its
+     own panel's side padding, and its text starts where the panel's does:
+     the list under a post started 4px left of the post's text from 901px
+     and 64px left of it from 721 to 900. */
   .journal-index-footer {
     margin-top: 32px;
     padding-top: 14px;
+    padding-left: 60px;
+    padding-right: 60px;
     border-top: 1px solid var(--pf-rule);
     display: flex;
     justify-content: flex-start;
@@ -1725,6 +1732,9 @@
   .journal-article-footer {
     width: min(100%, 948px);
     margin: 34px auto 0;
+    /* .journal-article's side padding; see .journal-index-footer. */
+    padding-left: 64px;
+    padding-right: 64px;
     display: grid;
     gap: 18px;
     color: var(--ink-muted);
@@ -1887,6 +1897,12 @@
       align-items: flex-start;
       gap: 12px;
     }
+    /* On a phone both footers stay at the panel's edge, as they were. */
+    .journal-index-footer,
+    .journal-article-footer {
+      padding-left: 0;
+      padding-right: 0;
+    }
     .journal-lockup {
       font-size: 50px;
     }
diff --git a/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts b/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts
index f3afb509f..f02ee67b9 100644
--- a/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts
+++ b/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts
@@ -201,3 +201,42 @@ describe("journal post numbers", () => {
     expect(underPost).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(index);
   });
 });
+
+// Both journal footers are <footer>s, and the front page's footer rule gave
+// them its side padding: 60px from 901px and 0 at 900 and below. On 27
+// October the list under each of the 74 posts started 4px left of the post's
+// text from 901px and 64px left of it from 721 to 900, and the index's footer
+// 60px left of the panel's text from 721 to 900.
+
+describe("journal footers", () => {
+  const desktop = rules(withoutMedia(css));
+  const phone = mediaBlocks(css, "(max-width: 720px)").flatMap(rules);
+  /** The [left, right] padding in px the rules for `selector` leave it with. */
+  const sides = (list: ReturnType<typeof rules>, selector: string) => {
+    let left: string | undefined;
+    let right: string | undefined;
+    for (const r of list.filter((r) => r.selectors.includes(selector))) {
+      const all = declaration(r.body, "padding")?.split(/\s+/);
+      if (all) {
+        right = all[1] ?? all[0];
+        left = all[3] ?? right;
+      }
+      left = declaration(r.body, "padding-left") ?? left;
+      right = declaration(r.body, "padding-right") ?? right;
+    }
+    return [parseFloat(left ?? ""), parseFloat(right ?? "")];
+  };
+
+  it.each([
+    [".journal-article-footer", ".journal-article"],
+    [".journal-index-footer", ".journal-panel"],
+  ])("starts %s where the text in %s starts, above 720px", (footer, panel) => {
+    expect(sides(desktop, panel)[0], `${panel}'s side padding`).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(sides(desktop, footer)).toEqual(sides(desktop, panel));
+  });
+
+  it("keeps both at the panel's edge on a phone", () => {
+    expect(sides(phone, ".journal-article-footer")).toEqual([0, 0]);
+    expect(sides(phone, ".journal-index-footer")).toEqual([0, 0]);
+  });
+});