diff --git a/src/lib/ui/styles/fonts.ts b/src/lib/ui/styles/fonts.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ec7df6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/ui/styles/fonts.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// Font imports for the Electric Cherry design system.
+//
+// These live in a JS module (not a CSS `@import` chain) because Vite's
+// CSS processor inlines @import'd CSS as text but doesn't crawl its
+// url() references to emit the referenced woff/woff2 files as build
+// assets. Importing the CSS from JS puts it on the module graph, which
+// Vite *does* walk, so the font binaries end up in
+// build/client/_app/immutable/assets/files/.
+
+import '@fontsource/alfa-slab-one/400.css';
+import '@fontsource/inter/400.css';
+import '@fontsource/inter/500.css';
+import '@fontsource/inter/600.css';
+import '@fontsource/inter/700.css';
+import '@fontsource/jetbrains-mono/400.css';
+import '@fontsource/jetbrains-mono/500.css';
diff --git a/src/lib/ui/styles/tokens.css b/src/lib/ui/styles/tokens.css
index fa06def..97c2829 100644
--- a/src/lib/ui/styles/tokens.css
+++ b/src/lib/ui/styles/tokens.css
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
 /* Electric Cherry — design tokens.
    Named after the perk-a-cola from Mob of the Dead (CoD Zombies):
-   deep cherry-red art-deco label + electric cyan discharge. */
+   deep cherry-red art-deco label + electric cyan discharge.
 
-@import '@fontsource/alfa-slab-one/400.css';
-@import '@fontsource/inter/400.css';
-@import '@fontsource/inter/500.css';
-@import '@fontsource/inter/600.css';
-@import '@fontsource/inter/700.css';
-@import '@fontsource/jetbrains-mono/400.css';
-@import '@fontsource/jetbrains-mono/500.css';
+   Font @import chains live in src/lib/ui/styles/fonts.ts and are pulled
+   in by +layout.svelte via JS import — Vite's CSS `@import` inlines the
+   text but doesn't emit the url()-referenced woff files as assets, so
+   we need the JS module graph to see them. */
 
 :root {
     /* Cherry — surfaces + primary */
diff --git a/src/routes/+layout.svelte b/src/routes/+layout.svelte
index aee866f..6af7b02 100644
--- a/src/routes/+layout.svelte
+++ b/src/routes/+layout.svelte
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
     import { startServerStream } from '$ui/stores/servers.js';
     import { page } from '$app/stores';
     import BrandMark from '$ui/components/BrandMark.svelte';
+    // Side-effect import — puts @fontsource CSS on Vite's module graph so
+    // the referenced woff/woff2 files get emitted into the build.
+    import '$ui/styles/fonts.js';
 
     interface Props { children: import('svelte').Snippet }
     let { children }: Props = $props();