diff --git a/packages/ui/src/components/pill-button.tsx b/packages/ui/src/components/pill-button.tsx
index 5071bce3..b5764855 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/components/pill-button.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/components/pill-button.tsx
@@ -6,12 +6,13 @@ import {type PillVariant, pillVariants} from '@proxy/ui/lib/pill-variants';
 /**
  * The app's button: round, solid and dark for the main action, ghost for any other (Cancel), red
  * (`destructive`) where it deletes or removes something. A ghost one is also a toggle's option or
- * a tab, filled in where it is chosen (`aria-pressed`, or `aria-current` on a link). With a label
- * it has no icon of its own; `icon` makes it an icon alone, in a circle, its label for whoever
- * can't see it in `aria-label` (`IconButton` adds the tooltip). Where Enter presses it, `enter`
- * puts Enter's mark after its label, as on the command bar's cards (`EnterButton`); Chat's send
- * button is the mark alone, in a circle. A link drawn as one takes `pillVariants`
- * (lib/pill-variants.ts, which says which corners the rest of the app has).
+ * a tab, filled in where it is chosen (`aria-pressed`, or `aria-current` on a link), and, unlike a
+ * button, not sinking as it is pressed. With a label it has no icon of its own; `icon` makes it an
+ * icon alone, in a circle, its label for whoever can't see it in `aria-label` (`IconButton` adds
+ * the tooltip). Where Enter presses it, `enter` puts Enter's mark after its label, as on the
+ * command bar's cards (`EnterButton`); Chat's send button is the mark alone, in a circle. A link
+ * drawn as one takes `pillVariants` (lib/pill-variants.ts, which says which corners the rest of
+ * the app has).
  */
 export function PillButton({
 	variant = 'default',
@@ -28,7 +29,10 @@ export function PillButton({
 	// Enter's mark with no label: a circle around it.
 	const alone = enter && (children === undefined || children === null);
 	return (
-		<ButtonPrimitive className={cn(pillVariants({variant, icon: alone || icon}), className)} {...props}>
+		<ButtonPrimitive
+			className={cn(pillVariants({variant, icon: alone || icon}), className)}
+			{...props}
+		>
 			{children}
 			{enter && <EnterHint alone={alone} />}
 		</ButtonPrimitive>
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/lib/pill-variants.ts b/packages/ui/src/lib/pill-variants.ts
index 64deedcb..cb7f9e23 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/lib/pill-variants.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/lib/pill-variants.ts
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ import {cn} from '@proxy/ui/lib/utils';
 export type PillVariant = 'default' | 'ghost' | 'destructive';
 
 // Every pill: its shape, its type, its focus ring, its icons' size, and how it looks pressed,
-// turned off or invalid.
+// turned off or invalid. Pressed, a button sinks a pixel; a tab or a toggle's option stays put,
+// only filling in.
 const BASE =
-	"inline-flex shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full border border-transparent bg-clip-padding text-sm font-medium whitespace-nowrap transition-all outline-none select-none focus-visible:border-ring focus-visible:ring-3 focus-visible:ring-ring/50 active:not-aria-[haspopup]:translate-y-px disabled:pointer-events-none disabled:opacity-50 aria-invalid:border-destructive aria-invalid:ring-3 aria-invalid:ring-destructive/20 dark:aria-invalid:border-destructive/50 dark:aria-invalid:ring-destructive/40 [&_svg]:pointer-events-none [&_svg]:shrink-0 [&_svg:not([class*='size-'])]:size-4";
+	"inline-flex shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full border border-transparent bg-clip-padding text-sm font-medium whitespace-nowrap transition-all outline-none select-none focus-visible:border-ring focus-visible:ring-3 focus-visible:ring-ring/50 active:not-aria-[haspopup]:not-[[role=tab]]:not-[[aria-pressed]]:translate-y-px disabled:pointer-events-none disabled:opacity-50 aria-invalid:border-destructive aria-invalid:ring-3 aria-invalid:ring-destructive/20 dark:aria-invalid:border-destructive/50 dark:aria-invalid:ring-destructive/40 [&_svg]:pointer-events-none [&_svg]:shrink-0 [&_svg:not([class*='size-'])]:size-4";
 
 // Each variant's colors. A ghost one that is chosen, a toggle's option pressed (`aria-pressed`) or a
 // tab open (`aria-current` on a link, `aria-selected` in a tablist), is filled in as it is under