diff --git a/docs/DESIGN.md b/docs/DESIGN.md
index 4fa263bd..53680f95 100644
--- a/docs/DESIGN.md
+++ b/docs/DESIGN.md
@@ -118,7 +118,10 @@ style guide.
   player (the Plex player, the YouTube stage) and on every surface painted `--media-chrome` (its menus,
   panels and bars), and a form there (`media-scope`) re-points `--danger` too. A chosen item there is
   white like the rest, marked by an amber tick (a track) or underline (a tab, `ui/mediaChrome`), never
-  the accent as text; a choice filled with the accent keeps it, its own text holds on it.
+  the accent as text; a choice filled with the accent keeps it, its own text holds on it. A fill that
+  must be seen there — a native checkbox or slider (`accent-chosen`), the skip button's countdown — is
+  the amber too; the Plex progress bar plays white with an amber head, so an amber marker ahead of
+  the head never reads as already played.
   `theme.contract.test.ts` measures the red on the chrome and holds every class string that paints it
   to name one of the two. Black and white are the media scrims and their text. Five schemes × dark
   and light (B2): **Midnight** (blue), **Forest** (cyan), **Slate** (fuchsia), **Matrix** (moss) each earn their
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/PlexPlayer.tsx b/frontend/src/components/PlexPlayer.tsx
index 8a313c36..c751e82d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/PlexPlayer.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/PlexPlayer.tsx
@@ -1429,12 +1429,12 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue, fromStart = false }
             <>
               {/* draining fill across the whole button… */}
               <span
-                className="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 bg-accent/50"
+                className="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 bg-chosen/50"
                 style={{ width: `${skipProgress * 100}%` }}
               />
               {/* …plus a crisp bottom bar so the countdown is unmistakable */}
               <span
-                className="absolute bottom-0 left-0 h-1 bg-accent"
+                className="absolute bottom-0 left-0 h-1 bg-chosen"
                 style={{ width: `${skipProgress * 100}%` }}
               />
             </>
@@ -1542,13 +1542,16 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue, fromStart = false }
                     }}
                   />
                 ))}
+                {/* The played part white, the head the media amber: amber is a marked place on
+                    the chrome (the head, the markers above), and an amber played part made a
+                    marker ahead of the head read as already played. */}
                 <div
-                  className="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 bg-accent rounded-full"
+                  className="absolute inset-y-0 left-0 bg-white rounded-full"
                   style={{ width: `${headPct}%` }}
                 />
                 {/* The head: on hover for a mouse, always on touch (C3), where nothing hovers. */}
                 <div
-                  className={`absolute top-1/2 -translate-y-1/2 -translate-x-1/2 w-3 h-3 rounded-full bg-accent transition-opacity ${
+                  className={`absolute top-1/2 -translate-y-1/2 -translate-x-1/2 w-3 h-3 rounded-full bg-media-mark transition-opacity ${
                     scrub != null
                       ? "opacity-100"
                       : "opacity-0 group-hover:opacity-100 [@media(hover:none)]:opacity-100"
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/NativeControls.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/NativeControls.tsx
index 053d0edd..bc2db63b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/NativeControls.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/NativeControls.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import clsx from "clsx";
 import type { InputHTMLAttributes, ReactNode, Ref } from "react";
 
 // A6 (docs/DESIGN.md): checkbox, slider and colour well are the BROWSER's controls, tinted
-// with the accent — keyboard, screen reader and forced-colours support come free, and a drawn copy
+// with the chosen colour (the accent; the media amber on the player chrome) — keyboard, screen
+// reader and forced-colours support come free, and a drawn copy
 // would have to rebuild all three. What the browser does not give is the 44 touch target: the labelled
 // row (`CheckRow`) or the slider's own box grows to it on a coarse pointer. Like `Input`, a raw
 // `<input>` for any of them anywhere else is a lint error.
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ export function Checkbox({
       type="checkbox"
       onChange={(e) => onChange?.(e.target.checked)}
       className={clsx(
-        "size-4 shrink-0 cursor-pointer accent-accent disabled:cursor-not-allowed",
+        "size-4 shrink-0 cursor-pointer accent-chosen disabled:cursor-not-allowed",
         className,
       )}
       {...rest}
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ export function Slider({
       type="range"
       onChange={(e) => onChange(Number(e.target.value))}
       className={clsx(
-        "min-h-6 w-full cursor-pointer accent-accent pointer-coarse:min-h-(--touch-target)",
+        "min-h-6 w-full cursor-pointer accent-chosen pointer-coarse:min-h-(--touch-target)",
         className,
       )}
       {...rest}
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/theme.contract.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/theme.contract.test.ts
index b48e016e..6628b61e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/theme.contract.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/theme.contract.test.ts
@@ -100,6 +100,18 @@ describe("the media colours", () => {
     );
     expect(buttons).toMatch(/aria-pressed:text-chosen/);
     expect(buttons).toMatch(/aria-expanded:text-chosen/);
+    // A native checkbox's and slider's fill is the chosen colour too (the player's settings), and so
+    // is the skip button's countdown: a fill that must be seen on the chrome.
+    const native = readFileSync(
+      new URL("../components/ui/NativeControls.tsx", import.meta.url),
+      "utf8",
+    );
+    expect(native).not.toMatch(/\baccent-accent\b/);
+    expect(native.match(/\baccent-chosen\b/g)).toHaveLength(2);
+    const plex = readFileSync(new URL("../components/PlexPlayer.tsx", import.meta.url), "utf8");
+    // No accent fill at all on the Plex player: its progress bar's played part is white and its head
+    // the media amber — a marked place, like the intro / credits markers and the clip's playhead.
+    expect(plex).not.toMatch(/\bbg-accent\b/);
     // (A pressed FILLED button keeps the accent fill under its own `text-accent-fg`.)
     expect(buttons).not.toMatch(/aria-(pressed|expanded):text-accent(?!-)/);
     // The player's own components are chrome throughout: nothing chosen there is the accent's text