diff --git a/website/app/page.ts b/website/app/page.ts
index aa73ac910..b00ee9442 100644
--- a/website/app/page.ts
+++ b/website/app/page.ts
@@ -105,26 +105,9 @@ export default function LandingPage() {
       @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
         :root:not([data-theme='light']) { --code-tag: oklch(0.78 0.13 250); --code-attr: oklch(0.66 0.16 150); --code-str: oklch(0.80 0.15 145); }
       }
-      .t-com { color: var(--fg-subtle); font-style: italic; }
-      .t-str { color: oklch(0.52 0.13 150); }
-      .t-kw  { color: oklch(0.52 0.16 295); font-weight: 600; }
-      .t-fn  { color: oklch(0.52 0.15 250); }
-      .t-type{ color: oklch(0.52 0.10 200); }
-      .t-num { color: oklch(0.55 0.12 215); }
-      .t-punc{ color: var(--fg-muted); }
-      .t-id  { color: var(--fg); }
-      :root[data-theme='dark'] .t-str { color: oklch(0.80 0.14 150); }
-      :root[data-theme='dark'] .t-kw  { color: oklch(0.76 0.14 295); }
-      :root[data-theme='dark'] .t-fn  { color: oklch(0.75 0.13 250); }
-      :root[data-theme='dark'] .t-type{ color: oklch(0.80 0.10 200); }
-      :root[data-theme='dark'] .t-num { color: oklch(0.82 0.12 215); }
-      @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
-        :root:not([data-theme='light']) .t-str { color: oklch(0.80 0.14 150); }
-        :root:not([data-theme='light']) .t-kw  { color: oklch(0.76 0.14 295); }
-        :root:not([data-theme='light']) .t-fn  { color: oklch(0.75 0.13 250); }
-        :root:not([data-theme='light']) .t-type{ color: oklch(0.80 0.10 200); }
-        :root:not([data-theme='light']) .t-num { color: oklch(0.82 0.12 215); }
-      }
+      /* Syntax-highlight token colors (.t-kw / .t-str / ...) are defined
+         globally in public/input.css so every surface (this page and the
+         blog code fences) shares one palette. */
       /* The live like-button demo: a bare light-DOM button the page styles
          into a pill (tag-prefixed, per the light-DOM CSS rule). */
       like-button button {
diff --git a/website/lib/highlight.ts b/website/lib/highlight.ts
index 6b058b300..bf9ec9429 100644
--- a/website/lib/highlight.ts
+++ b/website/lib/highlight.ts
@@ -121,3 +121,23 @@ export function highlight(code: string): TemplateResult[] {
     return cls ? html`<span class=${cls}>${tok.v}</span>` : html`${tok.v}`;
   });
 }
+
+function esc(s: string): string {
+  return s.replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
+}
+
+/**
+ * Highlight a code sample into an HTML string of styled spans, for callers
+ * that build markup as a string rather than an `html` TemplateResult (the
+ * blog markdown renderer, `modules/blog/utils/render-post.ts`). Same
+ * tokenizer and token classes as `highlight()`, so the colors match every
+ * other WebJs surface. Token text is HTML-escaped, so a sample can contain
+ * `<`, `&`, and backticks safely.
+ */
+export function highlightToHtml(code: string): string {
+  return tokenize(code.replace(/^\n+|\n+$/g, '')).map((tok) => {
+    const cls = CLASS[tok.t] ?? '';
+    const v = esc(tok.v);
+    return cls ? `<span class="${cls}">${v}</span>` : v;
+  }).join('');
+}
diff --git a/website/modules/blog/utils/render-post.ts b/website/modules/blog/utils/render-post.ts
index 0a11c8635..f513f7aa1 100644
--- a/website/modules/blog/utils/render-post.ts
+++ b/website/modules/blog/utils/render-post.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
  *     screen-reader cue); an internal `/path` link navigates in place.
  */
 
+import { highlightToHtml } from '#lib/highlight.ts';
+
 function inline(s: string): string {
   let out = s
     .replace(/&/g, '&amp;')
@@ -75,9 +77,16 @@ export function renderPostBody(md: string): string {
   for (const raw of lines) {
     if (inCode) {
       if (raw.trim().startsWith('```')) {
-        const escaped = codeBuf.join('\n')
-          .replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
-        out.push(`<pre class="bg-bg-subtle border border-border rounded-lg my-[48px] overflow-x-auto"><code class="font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.7] text-fg whitespace-pre block px-[24px] py-[20px]"${codeLang ? ` data-lang="${codeLang}"` : ''}>${escaped}</code></pre>`);
+        const src = codeBuf.join('\n');
+        // JS/TS fences get SSR syntax highlighting via the shared tokenizer
+        // (colors match the home page and the ui docs). Every other fence,
+        // INCLUDING a bare no-language fence (sh, plain command output, JSON),
+        // stays plain escaped text: JS-tokenizing shell output mis-colors it.
+        const HIGHLIGHTED = new Set(['ts', 'tsx', 'js', 'jsx', 'javascript', 'typescript']);
+        const body = HIGHLIGHTED.has(codeLang.toLowerCase())
+          ? highlightToHtml(src)
+          : src.replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
+        out.push(`<pre class="bg-bg-subtle border border-border rounded-lg my-[48px] overflow-x-auto"><code class="font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.7] text-fg whitespace-pre block px-[24px] py-[20px]"${codeLang ? ` data-lang="${codeLang}"` : ''}>${body}</code></pre>`);
         codeBuf = [];
         codeLang = '';
         inCode = false;
diff --git a/website/public/input.css b/website/public/input.css
index d021e236e..a5bbf3806 100644
--- a/website/public/input.css
+++ b/website/public/input.css
@@ -42,3 +42,30 @@
 @font-face{font-family:'Inter Tight';font-style:normal;font-weight:100 900;font-display:swap;src:url('/public/fonts/inter-tight.woff2') format('woff2');}
 @font-face{font-family:'Inter';font-style:normal;font-weight:100 900;font-display:swap;src:url('/public/fonts/inter.woff2') format('woff2');}
 @font-face{font-family:'JetBrains Mono';font-style:normal;font-weight:100 800;font-display:swap;src:url('/public/fonts/jetbrains-mono.woff2') format('woff2');}
+
+/*
+ * Syntax-highlight token colors (theme-aware). Emitted at SSR by
+ * lib/highlight.ts (home page code windows and blog code fences share the
+ * one tokenizer, so the palette is defined once here, globally, rather than
+ * inline per page). Class names: t-com/t-str/t-kw/t-fn/t-type/t-num/t-punc/t-id.
+ */
+.t-com { color: var(--fg-subtle); font-style: italic; }
+.t-str { color: oklch(0.52 0.13 150); }
+.t-kw  { color: oklch(0.52 0.16 295); font-weight: 600; }
+.t-fn  { color: oklch(0.52 0.15 250); }
+.t-type{ color: oklch(0.52 0.10 200); }
+.t-num { color: oklch(0.55 0.12 215); }
+.t-punc{ color: var(--fg-muted); }
+.t-id  { color: var(--fg); }
+:root[data-theme='dark'] .t-str { color: oklch(0.80 0.14 150); }
+:root[data-theme='dark'] .t-kw  { color: oklch(0.76 0.14 295); }
+:root[data-theme='dark'] .t-fn  { color: oklch(0.75 0.13 250); }
+:root[data-theme='dark'] .t-type{ color: oklch(0.80 0.10 200); }
+:root[data-theme='dark'] .t-num { color: oklch(0.82 0.12 215); }
+@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
+  :root:not([data-theme='light']) .t-str { color: oklch(0.80 0.14 150); }
+  :root:not([data-theme='light']) .t-kw  { color: oklch(0.76 0.14 295); }
+  :root:not([data-theme='light']) .t-fn  { color: oklch(0.75 0.13 250); }
+  :root:not([data-theme='light']) .t-type{ color: oklch(0.80 0.10 200); }
+  :root:not([data-theme='light']) .t-num { color: oklch(0.82 0.12 215); }
+}
diff --git a/website/test/highlight/highlight.test.ts b/website/test/highlight/highlight.test.ts
index f13005b4b..040516500 100644
--- a/website/test/highlight/highlight.test.ts
+++ b/website/test/highlight/highlight.test.ts
@@ -14,21 +14,23 @@ import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import { html } from '@webjsdev/core';
 import { renderToString } from '@webjsdev/core/server';
-import { highlight } from '#lib/highlight.ts';
+import { highlight, highlightToHtml } from '#lib/highlight.ts';
+import { renderPostBody } from '#modules/blog/utils/render-post.ts';
 
 const render = (code: string) => renderToString(html`<pre>${highlight(code)}</pre>`);
 
-test('every token class highlight() emits is styled in app/page.ts', () => {
-  // highlight.ts emits t-* classes; the only consumer that styles them is the
-  // inline <style> in app/page.ts. A rename/drop on EITHER side passes the
-  // whole suite while shipping plain (unstyled) code samples, so pin the
+test('every token class highlight() emits is styled in public/input.css', () => {
+  // highlight.ts emits t-* classes; they are styled globally in
+  // public/input.css (so every surface, the home page code windows and the
+  // blog code fences, shares one palette). A rename/drop on EITHER side passes
+  // the whole suite while shipping plain (unstyled) code samples, so pin the
   // contract (mirrors the no-animations pin in layout-ssr.test.ts).
   const read = (p: string) => readFileSync(fileURLToPath(new URL(p, import.meta.url)), 'utf8');
   const classes = [...read('../../lib/highlight.ts').matchAll(/'(t-[a-z]+)'/g)].map((m) => m[1]);
-  const page = read('../../app/page.ts');
+  const css = read('../../public/input.css');
   assert.ok(classes.length >= 6, `extracted the emitted token classes, got ${classes.join(',')}`);
   for (const cls of new Set(classes)) {
-    assert.ok(page.includes(`.${cls}`), `app/page.ts must style the .${cls} token class`);
+    assert.ok(css.includes(`.${cls}`), `public/input.css must style the .${cls} token class`);
   }
 });
 
@@ -100,3 +102,45 @@ test('tokenizer edge cases: block comments, backtick strings, hex/underscore num
   assert.match(await render('x as Foo'), /<span class="t-kw">as<\/span>/);
   assert.match(await render('typeof y'), /<span class="t-kw">typeof<\/span>/);
 });
+
+test('highlightToHtml emits the same token spans as a string', () => {
+  const out = highlightToHtml("const x = 1;");
+  assert.match(out, /<span class="t-kw">const<\/span>/);
+  assert.match(out, /<span class="t-num">1<\/span>/);
+  assert.equal(typeof out, 'string');
+});
+
+test('highlightToHtml HTML-escapes token text (no injection)', () => {
+  const out = highlightToHtml('const t = "<div> & `x`";');
+  assert.match(out, /&lt;div&gt;/);
+  assert.match(out, /&amp;/);
+  assert.ok(!out.includes('<div>'), 'no raw <div> injected');
+});
+
+test('blog renderer highlights ts/js fences but leaves sh fences plain', () => {
+  const out = renderPostBody('```ts\nconst x: number = 1;\n```\n\n```sh\nnpm run dev\n```');
+  // the ts fence is tokenized
+  assert.match(out, /<span class="t-kw">const<\/span>/);
+  // the sh fence is escaped plain text, not tokenized
+  assert.ok(out.includes('npm run dev'), 'sh fence content present');
+  assert.ok(!/<span class="t-[a-z]+">npm<\/span>/.test(out), 'sh fence is not tokenized');
+});
+
+test('a bare no-language fence stays plain (shell output is not JS-tokenized)', () => {
+  // A fence with no language often holds command output. Tokenizing it as JS
+  // mis-colors words like `Forbidden` (as a type) or `403` (as a number).
+  const out = renderPostBody('```\nnpm error code E403\nForbidden - PUT https://registry.npmjs.org\n```');
+  assert.ok(out.includes('npm error code E403'), 'output content present');
+  assert.ok(!/<span class="t-[a-z]+">/.test(out), 'no token spans in a bare fence');
+});
+
+test('fence language matching is case-insensitive', () => {
+  const out = renderPostBody('```TS\nconst x = 1;\n```');
+  assert.match(out, /<span class="t-kw">const<\/span>/);
+});
+
+test('blog renderer escapes angle brackets in a highlighted fence', () => {
+  const out = renderPostBody('```ts\nconst el = html`<my-tag>`;\n```');
+  assert.match(out, /&lt;my-tag&gt;/);
+  assert.ok(!out.includes('<my-tag>'), 'no raw custom element injected');
+});