diff --git a/app/src/test/java/eu/darken/capod/common/upgrade/ui/BrandTitleTest.kt b/app/src/test/java/eu/darken/capod/common/upgrade/ui/BrandTitleTest.kt
index ed8579a7..a2bfe594 100644
--- a/app/src/test/java/eu/darken/capod/common/upgrade/ui/BrandTitleTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/test/java/eu/darken/capod/common/upgrade/ui/BrandTitleTest.kt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package eu.darken.capod.common.upgrade.ui
 
 import android.content.Context
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
 import androidx.compose.ui.text.AnnotatedString
 import androidx.test.core.app.ApplicationProvider
 import eu.darken.capod.R
@@ -74,6 +75,31 @@ class BrandTitleTest : BaseComposeRobolectricTest() {
         result.text.substring(span.start, span.end) shouldBe qualifier
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun `the highlight defaults to the upgraded brand color`() {
+        val result = capture { brandTitle(includeQualifier = true, highlightQualifier = true) }
+
+        result.spanStyles.single().item.color shouldBe Color(context.getColor(R.color.brand_tertiary))
+    }
+
+    // The toolbar tints by flavor — FOSS on brand_secondary, Pro on brand_tertiary — so the color
+    // is a parameter rather than a constant. Without this, hardcoding the default back into
+    // brandTitle would keep every other assertion green while the FOSS toolbar lost its tint.
+    @Test
+    fun `a caller-supplied highlight color is the one applied`() {
+        val custom = Color(context.getColor(R.color.brand_secondary))
+
+        val result = capture {
+            brandTitle(includeQualifier = true, highlightQualifier = true, highlightColor = custom)
+        }
+
+        result.spanStyles.single().item.color shouldBe custom
+        result.text.substring(
+            result.spanStyles.single().start,
+            result.spanStyles.single().end,
+        ) shouldBe qualifier
+    }
+
     // The markers are injected as format arguments, so a template or formatter that mangled them
     // would leak U+FFFC / U+FFF9 into the toolbar.
     @Test
diff --git a/app/src/testGplay/java/eu/darken/capod/common/upgrade/ui/BrandTitleTemplateLocalesTest.kt b/app/src/testGplay/java/eu/darken/capod/common/upgrade/ui/BrandTitleTemplateLocalesTest.kt
index 2e5f9be8..01eecde0 100644
--- a/app/src/testGplay/java/eu/darken/capod/common/upgrade/ui/BrandTitleTemplateLocalesTest.kt
+++ b/app/src/testGplay/java/eu/darken/capod/common/upgrade/ui/BrandTitleTemplateLocalesTest.kt
@@ -63,16 +63,26 @@ class BrandTitleTemplateLocalesTest {
         locales shouldHaveAtLeastSize 60
     }
 
+    // Asserted against the FORMATTER'S OUTPUT rather than against the template text, because the
+    // format grammar is bigger than it looks: `%1$s %2$s %<s` reuses the previous argument and so
+    // emits the qualifier twice, which no reasonable "does it contain %1$s and %2$s" check spots.
+    // Each marker landing exactly once is precisely the condition spliceTitleTemplate requires, so
+    // checking it here is both stronger and simpler than modelling the grammar.
     @Test
-    fun `every locale template declares exactly the two title placeholders`() {
+    fun `every locale template places each slot exactly once when formatted`() {
         val offenders = locales.mapNotNull { tag ->
-            val template = localized(tag).getString(R.string.app_name_upgraded_template)
-            val specifiers = FORMAT_SPECIFIER
-                .findAll(template.replace("%%", ""))
-                .map { it.value }
-                .sorted()
-                .toList()
-            if (specifiers == listOf("%1\$s", "%2\$s")) null else "$tag -> $template"
+            val formatted = localized(tag).getString(
+                R.string.app_name_upgraded_template,
+                BRAND_TITLE_MARKER,
+                BRAND_QUALIFIER_MARKER,
+            )
+            val names = formatted.split(BRAND_TITLE_MARKER).size - 1
+            val qualifiers = formatted.split(BRAND_QUALIFIER_MARKER).size - 1
+            if (names == 1 && qualifiers == 1) {
+                null
+            } else {
+                "$tag -> name x$names, qualifier x$qualifiers in '$formatted'"
+            }
         }
 
         offenders shouldBe emptyList()
@@ -89,11 +99,17 @@ class BrandTitleTemplateLocalesTest {
             val result = compose(ctx)
 
             val span = result.spanStyles.singleOrNull()
+            // What Android itself produces for this template. Comparing against it is what proves
+            // the splice REPRODUCED the translator's arrangement rather than quietly discarding a
+            // damaged template and rebuilding the default — a fallback renders a plausible title
+            // with exactly one correctly-styled qualifier, so every other assertion here passes
+            // straight through it.
+            val expected = ctx.getString(R.string.app_name_upgraded_template, name, qualifier)
             when {
                 name.isBlank() || qualifier.isBlank() -> "$tag -> blank part"
                 result.text.contains(BRAND_TITLE_MARKER) -> "$tag -> name marker leaked"
                 result.text.contains(BRAND_QUALIFIER_MARKER) -> "$tag -> qualifier marker leaked"
-                !result.text.contains(name) -> "$tag -> name missing from '${result.text}'"
+                result.text != expected -> "$tag -> rendered '${result.text}', formatter says '$expected'"
                 span == null -> "$tag -> expected one span, got ${result.spanStyles.size}"
                 result.text.substring(span.start, span.end) != qualifier ->
                     "$tag -> span covers '${result.text.substring(span.start, span.end)}', want '$qualifier'"
@@ -104,8 +120,4 @@ class BrandTitleTemplateLocalesTest {
 
         offenders shouldBe emptyList()
     }
-
-    companion object {
-        private val FORMAT_SPECIFIER = Regex("""%(\d+\$)?[a-zA-Z]""")
-    }
 }