diff --git a/web/src/app/globals.css b/web/src/app/globals.css
index 6ba5972b8..f33309829 100644
--- a/web/src/app/globals.css
+++ b/web/src/app/globals.css
@@ -1828,9 +1828,15 @@
     .journal-index {
       width: 100%;
     }
+    /* The panel reaches into the shell's 24px gutter, so its text starts
+       24px from each edge of the screen. The gutter and the panel's own
+       padding added up to 48px, and 15px text got 17.6 characters a line
+       at 360. The masthead and both footers keep the gutter. */
     .journal-panel,
     .journal-article {
-      width: 100%;
+      width: auto;
+      margin-left: -24px;
+      margin-right: -24px;
       padding: 24px 24px 72px;
     }
     .journal-panel .journal-lang-switch {
@@ -1842,7 +1848,8 @@
       align-items: flex-start;
       gap: 12px;
     }
-    /* On a phone both footers stay at the panel's edge, as they were. */
+    /* On a phone both footers stay in the shell's gutter, 24px in, where
+       the panel's text starts. */
     .journal-index-footer,
     .journal-article-footer {
       padding-left: 0;
diff --git a/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts b/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts
index e100fb0c2..1fa78a9cb 100644
--- a/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts
+++ b/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts
@@ -238,12 +238,56 @@ describe("journal footers", () => {
     expect(sides(desktop, footer)).toEqual(sides(desktop, panel));
   });
 
-  it("keeps both at the panel's edge on a phone", () => {
+  it("keeps both in the shell's gutter on a phone", () => {
     expect(sides(phone, ".journal-article-footer")).toEqual([0, 0]);
     expect(sides(phone, ".journal-index-footer")).toEqual([0, 0]);
   });
 });
 
+// Below 721px the shell's 24px gutter and the panel's 24px padding added up.
+// On 28 October the text of a post and of the index started 48px from each
+// edge of the screen at 360, 390 and 430, which left 264px of a 360px phone
+// for 15px text: 17.6 characters a line.
+
+describe("journal text on a phone", () => {
+  const phone = mediaBlocks(css, "(max-width: 720px)").flatMap(rules);
+  /** The last left value the phone rules give `selector` for `property` ("padding" or "margin"), in px. */
+  const left = (selector: string, property: string) => {
+    let value: string | undefined;
+    for (const r of phone.filter((r) => r.selectors.includes(selector))) {
+      const all = declaration(r.body, property)?.split(/\s+/);
+      if (all) value = all[3] ?? all[1] ?? all[0];
+      value = declaration(r.body, `${property}-left`) ?? value;
+    }
+    return parseFloat(value ?? "0");
+  };
+  const width = (selector: string) =>
+    phone
+      .filter((r) => r.selectors.includes(selector))
+      .map((r) => declaration(r.body, "width"))
+      .filter(Boolean)
+      .at(-1);
+  const gutter = left(".journal-shell", "padding");
+
+  it.each([".journal-panel", ".journal-article"])("starts the text in %s 16 to 24px from the edge", (panel) => {
+    const at = gutter + left(panel, "margin") + left(panel, "padding");
+    expect(at).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(16);
+    expect(at).toBeLessThanOrEqual(24);
+  });
+
+  it.each([".journal-panel", ".journal-article"])("keeps %s on the screen", (panel) => {
+    const margin = left(panel, "margin");
+    expect(gutter + margin).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+    if (margin < 0) expect(width(panel), "a 100% width pushed past the right edge").toBe("auto");
+  });
+
+  it("starts both footers where the text does", () => {
+    const text = gutter + left(".journal-article", "margin") + left(".journal-article", "padding");
+    expect(gutter + left(".journal-article-footer", "padding")).toBe(text);
+    expect(gutter + left(".journal-index-footer", "padding")).toBe(text);
+  });
+});
+
 // Rules that matched nothing on a journal page. No component and none of the
 // 74 posts wrote .journal-list-number, .journal-figure, -wide or -full (the
 // posts' figures are journal-md-figure and journal-figure-row). The two cover