diff --git a/html/work-package-suite-styles.css b/html/work-package-suite-styles.css
index bac0c4f..3f5a07a 100644
--- a/html/work-package-suite-styles.css
+++ b/html/work-package-suite-styles.css
@@ -386,16 +386,22 @@ body.embed-full { overflow: hidden; }
   box-shadow: 0 0 0 3px var(--primary-light);
 }
 
-.field small {
+/* Helper text under a field, by either of the two names the markup uses: <small>
+   inside a .field, and .field-hint anywhere. They were two rules with byte-identical
+   declarations — the duplication that produced the bug this block used to carry a
+   comment about, in miniature. One rule now, so they cannot drift apart again.
+
+   The colour is deliberately left as --text-dim. #8d8d8d on white measures 3.3:1,
+   under the 4.5:1 floor, and console.css:103 already rejected it for exactly this
+   job — but propagating that fix is T4.6, which re-measures rather than inheriting
+   either published figure. Changing it here would be a rendered change in a wave
+   that must produce none, and would take T4.6's decision away from it. */
+.field small,
+.field-hint {
   font-size: 12px;
   color: var(--text-dim);
   margin-top: 0.25rem;
 }
-
-/* Small helper text under a field. It's used on this page (step 2's CM hint, the
-   team-member notices) but its only rule used to live in wp-creation-styles.css,
-   which this page does not link — so it rendered as unstyled body text. */
-.field-hint { font-size: 12px; color: var(--text-dim); margin-top: 0.25rem; }
 .field-hint strong { color: var(--text-light); }
 
 /* The sign-off name pickers sit outside .field, so they got no form styling at all. */