diff --git a/Panel.qml b/Panel.qml
index 96475bb..b7957a0 100644
--- a/Panel.qml
+++ b/Panel.qml
@@ -1120,8 +1120,11 @@ Panel {
     anchors.fill: parent
     bar: root.bar
     text: ""
-    // Leaned over like the real thing, same obliquity as the panel globe.
-    textRotation: Solar.AXIAL_TILT
+    // Upright, unlike the panel globe. The bar draws this glyph with native
+    // text rendering at about thirteen pixels, and a lattice that fine does
+    // not survive being turned off the pixel grid: leaned over by the earth's
+    // obliquity it shreds into a dotted blob. The lean lives on the hero
+    // globe, which is drawn and large enough to carry it.
     tooltipText: "World clock"
     onPressed: function(buttonCode) {
       if (buttonCode === Qt.RightButton || buttonCode === Qt.MiddleButton) root.refresh()
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d2035be..168adff 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1102,7 +1102,13 @@ the arithmetic left it. At rest a `Binding` holds the globe there, standing
 down while the animation is writing the property. Until the fetcher has
 geocoded your city the marker is hidden and it rests on Greenwich.
 
-The sidebar icon carries the same tilt, via `WidgetButton.textRotation`.
+The sidebar icon does not carry the tilt. It did, via
+`WidgetButton.textRotation`, and it came out as a dotted blob: the bar draws
+its glyphs with native text rendering at about thirteen pixels, and the globe
+glyph's lattice does not survive being turned off the pixel grid. Qt's other
+render types were tried on the same glyph at the same angle and none of them
+resolved the graticule either, so the icon stands upright and the lean is left
+to the drawn globe, which is large enough to carry it.
 
 Opening the panel spins it three turns. `Easing.OutQuart` over 1250ms puts
 most of the rotation in the first third and lets the rest coast out, which is