diff --git a/ui-web/scripts/gates/lone-delivery-css.test.mjs b/ui-web/scripts/gates/lone-delivery-css.test.mjs
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@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/* A lone delivery's preview keeps the shape of what is in it.
+ *
+ * The delivery tile has two arrangements. In the grid, a preview sits ABOVE its
+ * caption in a column of stated width, so the box states a ratio and the image
+ * fills it -- `width: 100%` and `cover`, and a little crop is the price of a
+ * tidy grid. Alone, the preview stands BESIDE the caption at a stated height,
+ * and the column it stands in follows it (`grid-template-columns: auto ...`).
+ *
+ * That last part is what has to be paid for. A column told to follow the
+ * picture needs the picture to state a width, and an image that fills a box
+ * states none: it is `width: 100%` of whatever it is given. Given an auto
+ * column, that resolved to the whole row -- a 98px-tall box 688px wide, into
+ * which `cover` fitted a 16:9 slide by keeping the middle quarter of it. A
+ * delivered deck arrived as a letterboxed strip with its own title cut in
+ * half, which is what this is pinned against.
+ *
+ * Sized from the height instead, the image resolves its own width from its own
+ * ratio, the column resolves from that, and the box ends up the shape of its
+ * contents -- so there is nothing left to crop and `contain` and `cover` would
+ * agree. `contain` is stated anyway: it is the one that cannot crop, and the
+ * rule should say what it means rather than rely on the box being right.
+ *
+ * Pinned here rather than in a DOM test for the reason every CSS gate in this
+ * directory exists: happy-dom does no layout and applies no stylesheet, so a
+ * picture cropped to a strip and one drawn whole are the same assertion there.
+ * Only the stylesheet says which happens.
+ */
+
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+
+import { decls, rules } from './css.mjs'
+
+describe('a lone delivery keeps its picture whole', () => {
+  it('sizes the picture from its height, so it states a width to follow', () => {
+    const img = decls('.atiles.single .atile .pic.shot img')
+    expect(img, 'the lone arrangement overrides how the image is sized').not.toBeNull()
+    /* The height is the stated one, the width comes from the image's ratio.
+       Either of these back to `100%` and the picture has no width of its own
+       again, which is the whole of the fault. */
+    expect(img.get('height')).toBe('100%')
+    expect(img.get('width')).toBe('auto')
+    /* And nothing may be cropped away: the box is the picture's own shape now,
+       so a crop could only be a sign that it is not. */
+    expect(img.get('object-fit')).toBe('contain')
+  })
+
+  it('leaves the grid arrangement filling its stated box', () => {
+    /* The general rule is untouched: in the grid the box states the ratio and
+       the image fills it, which is what keeps a row of tiles a row. */
+    const img = decls('.atile .pic.shot img')
+    expect(img).not.toBeNull()
+    expect(img.get('width')).toBe('100%')
+    expect(img.get('object-fit')).toBe('cover')
+  })
+
+  it('keeps the column following the picture', () => {
+    /* The other half of the pair, from the change that introduced it: a column
+       fixed at the document face's 92px cut the picture off instead, and the
+       two rules only work together. */
+    const following = rules(/^\.atiles\.single \.atile:has\(> \.pic\.shot\)$/)
+    expect(following.length, 'the picture column is still auto').toBe(1)
+    expect(following[0][1]).toMatch(/grid-template-columns:\s*auto/)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/ui-web/src/styles/page.css b/ui-web/src/styles/page.css
index f308e8f4b..3ea0a6dbe 100644
--- a/ui-web/src/styles/page.css
+++ b/ui-web/src/styles/page.css
@@ -1531,6 +1531,17 @@ button, [role="button"] { -webkit-user-select: none; user-select: none; }
    is wider than the 92px column the document face fits in -- left there, the
    picture ran over the title beside it. The column follows the picture. */
 .atiles.single .atile:has(> .pic.shot) { grid-template-columns: auto minmax(0, 1fr); }
+/* And what the column follows has to be the picture's own shape. The grid
+   tile's image fills a box whose ratio is already the box's (`width: 100%`,
+   `cover`), so it states no width of its own -- and a column told to follow it
+   had nothing to follow and took the whole row instead. The box then stayed
+   98px tall at 688 wide, and `cover` cropped a 16:9 slide to the middle
+   quarter of itself: a delivered deck arrived as a letterboxed strip with its
+   own title cut in half.
+   Sized from the height instead, the image resolves its width from its own
+   ratio, the auto column resolves from that, and the box is the shape of what
+   is in it -- so `contain` and `cover` agree and there is nothing to crop. */
+.atiles.single .atile .pic.shot img { width: auto; height: 100%; object-fit: contain; }
 .atiles.single .atile .cap { align-content: center; padding: 13px 16px; }
 /* No narrow-container type step. Every caption row is one ellipsised line now,
    so a narrow card already fits without shrinking anything -- and shrinking the