diff --git a/src/components/custom-metrics/custom-metric-detail.tsx b/src/components/custom-metrics/custom-metric-detail.tsx
index 829d89886..9caf25593 100644
--- a/src/components/custom-metrics/custom-metric-detail.tsx
+++ b/src/components/custom-metrics/custom-metric-detail.tsx
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ export function CustomMetricDetail({
           <h1 className="text-2xl font-bold tracking-tight">
             {metric?.name ?? t("customMetrics.detail.title")}
           </h1>
-          <p className="text-muted-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
+          <p className="text-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
             {description}
           </p>
         </header>
@@ -262,9 +262,7 @@ export function CustomMetricDetail({
         </div>
       </div>
 
-      <p className="text-muted-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
-        {description}
-      </p>
+      <p className="text-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">{description}</p>
 
       {isLoading ? (
         <Card>
diff --git a/src/components/insights/recovery/recovery-metric-block.tsx b/src/components/insights/recovery/recovery-metric-block.tsx
index 88527e76e..e560aedd1 100644
--- a/src/components/insights/recovery/recovery-metric-block.tsx
+++ b/src/components/insights/recovery/recovery-metric-block.tsx
@@ -84,9 +84,7 @@ export function RecoveryMetricBlock({
               with no skipped level. */}
           <h2 className="text-base font-semibold">{title}</h2>
         </div>
-        <p className="text-muted-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
-          {explainer}
-        </p>
+        <p className="text-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">{explainer}</p>
       </div>
 
       <MetricStatStrip
diff --git a/src/components/insights/recovery/resilience-tile.tsx b/src/components/insights/recovery/resilience-tile.tsx
index e2b5422b5..dc7233802 100644
--- a/src/components/insights/recovery/resilience-tile.tsx
+++ b/src/components/insights/recovery/resilience-tile.tsx
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ export function ResilienceTile() {
         ) : null}
       </CardHeader>
       <CardContent className="space-y-3">
-        <p className="text-muted-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
+        <p className="text-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
           {t("insights.resilience.explainer")}
         </p>
         {count < MIN_TREND_READINGS ? (
diff --git a/src/components/labs/lab-biomarker-detail.tsx b/src/components/labs/lab-biomarker-detail.tsx
index 3c009438a..329bd622b 100644
--- a/src/components/labs/lab-biomarker-detail.tsx
+++ b/src/components/labs/lab-biomarker-detail.tsx
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ export function LabBiomarkerDetail({ biomarkerId }: { biomarkerId: string }) {
           <h1 className="text-2xl font-bold tracking-tight">
             {marker?.name ?? t("labs.detail.title")}
           </h1>
-          <p className="text-muted-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
+          <p className="text-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
             {description}
           </p>
         </header>
@@ -340,9 +340,7 @@ export function LabBiomarkerDetail({ biomarkerId }: { biomarkerId: string }) {
           heading, mirroring the metric sub-pages' explainer caption. Computed
           once above (catalog desc → user `context` → generic fallback) so a
           catalog-less marker still carries a description. */}
-      <p className="text-muted-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
-        {description}
-      </p>
+      <p className="text-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">{description}</p>
 
       {isLoading ? (
         <Card>
diff --git a/src/components/onboarding/done-screen.tsx b/src/components/onboarding/done-screen.tsx
index b3c9f26b3..e08f67ada 100644
--- a/src/components/onboarding/done-screen.tsx
+++ b/src/components/onboarding/done-screen.tsx
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ export function DoneScreen() {
         <p className="text-foreground text-sm font-medium">
           {t("onboarding.done.aiTitle")}
         </p>
-        <p className="text-muted-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
+        <p className="text-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
           {t("onboarding.done.aiBody")}
         </p>
         <Link
diff --git a/src/components/onboarding/welcome-carousel.tsx b/src/components/onboarding/welcome-carousel.tsx
index 9647e3c5f..d78c6d945 100644
--- a/src/components/onboarding/welcome-carousel.tsx
+++ b/src/components/onboarding/welcome-carousel.tsx
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ export function WelcomeCarousel() {
               >
                 {t(slide.titleKey)}
               </h2>
-              <p className="text-muted-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
+              <p className="text-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed">
                 {t(slide.bodyKey)}
               </p>
             </article>
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ export function WelcomeCarousel() {
         />
         <label
           htmlFor={disclaimerId}
-          className="text-muted-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed"
+          className="text-foreground text-sm leading-relaxed"
         >
           {t("onboarding.disclaimer.acknowledge")}{" "}
           <Link