diff --git a/web/src/app/globals.css b/web/src/app/globals.css
index 5b559e6b0..318349bc3 100644
--- a/web/src/app/globals.css
+++ b/web/src/app/globals.css
@@ -1904,6 +1904,12 @@
     .journal-reading blockquote {
       font-size: 16px;
     }
+    /* A list's items stand as far apart as paragraphs. The reset leaves a
+       list no marker and no indent, and at 0 apart the three items of the
+       list in "Why I write these" ran on as one block of 11 lines at 390. */
+    .journal-reading li {
+      margin-bottom: 1.1em;
+    }
     .journal-post-list a {
       display: block;
       position: relative;
diff --git a/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts b/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts
index 0a52fdc99..e5d744b1b 100644
--- a/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts
+++ b/web/src/components/journal/journalCss.test.ts
@@ -478,3 +478,29 @@ describe("journal text size on a phone", () => {
     expect(perLine).toBeLessThanOrEqual(28);
   });
 });
+
+// Below 721px the items of a list in a post stood 0 apart, and the reset
+// leaves a list no marker and no indent. On 28 October the one list in the 74
+// posts, in "Why I write these" and its Korean twin, ran its three items on
+// as one block: 11 lines in Korean and 10 in English at 390.
+
+describe("journal lists on a phone", () => {
+  const phone = mediaBlocks(css, "(max-width: 720px)").flatMap(rules);
+  /** The bottom margin the phone rules give `selector`, as written. */
+  const bottom = (selector: string) => {
+    let value: string | undefined;
+    for (const r of phone.filter((r) => r.selectors.includes(selector))) {
+      const all = declaration(r.body, "margin")?.split(/\s+/);
+      if (all) value = all[2] ?? all[0];
+      value = declaration(r.body, "margin-bottom") ?? value;
+    }
+    return value;
+  };
+
+  it("keeps a post's list items 0.8 to 1.5em apart", () => {
+    const value = bottom(".journal-reading li") ?? "0";
+    expect(value, "the bottom margin of .journal-reading li").toMatch(/^[\d.]+em$/);
+    expect(parseFloat(value)).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0.8);
+    expect(parseFloat(value)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1.5);
+  });
+});