diff --git a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.html b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.html
index ea1d156..a919cea 100644
--- a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.html
+++ b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.html
@@ -24,21 +24,16 @@
            information does not exist for a screen reader. -->
       <span class="visually-hidden">{{ 'notes.pinnedState' | transloco }}</span>
     }
-    <!-- One line for the badge, the title and the glyphs. It was two, and the first of
-         them was a whole row spent on a badge and three small marks. -->
+    <!-- The badge and the glyphs, then the title flowing past them. They were a row of
+         their own above it. ⚠️ The glyphs come **before** the title and not after: a
+         mark trailing it wraps onto a second line of its own when the title ends near
+         the edge, and that second line costs the body one of its own. -->
     <span class="card-head">
       <!-- No format for a todo list: a "TXT" badge would announce a language nothing
            shows. -->
       @if (!isChecklist()) {
         <app-language-badge [language]="note().language" />
       }
-      <span class="card-title" data-testid="note-card-title">
-        @if (note().title) {
-          {{ note().title }}
-        } @else {
-          {{ 'notes.untitled' | transloco }}
-        }
-      </span>
       <span class="card-marks">
         @if (hasPlaceholders()) {
           <span class="card-fields" data-testid="note-card-fields" aria-hidden="true">⚡</span>
@@ -54,8 +49,12 @@
             {{ 'notes.attachmentsCount' | transloco: { count: note().attachmentCount } }}
           </span>
         }
-        @if (note().pinned) {
-          <span class="card-pin" data-testid="note-card-pin" aria-hidden="true">📌</span>
+      </span>
+      <span class="card-title" data-testid="note-card-title">
+        @if (note().title) {
+          {{ note().title }}
+        } @else {
+          {{ 'notes.untitled' | transloco }}
         }
       </span>
     </span>
@@ -103,6 +102,14 @@
     </span>
   </button>
 
+  <!-- Driven into the card's corner, over its border. A sibling of the button and not a
+       child: the head is text now, and a glyph inline with the title wrapped onto a line
+       of its own whenever the title ended near the edge — costing the body a line. Its
+       text twin stays inside the card, next to the title it belongs to. -->
+  @if (note().pinned) {
+    <span class="card-pin" data-testid="note-card-pin" aria-hidden="true">📌</span>
+  }
+
   <!-- A button with `aria-pressed` rather than an `<input type=checkbox>`: the parent
        card is a button, and a native control would inherit its styles. -->
   <button
diff --git a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.scss b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.scss
index c89a075..9a8948e 100644
--- a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.scss
+++ b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.scss
@@ -48,57 +48,58 @@ app-copy-button:focus-within {
   box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px var(--amber-dim);
 }
 
-// The children are <span>s — the parent <button> allows nothing else — so they need
-// their block behaviour handed back explicitly.
+// The badge, the title and the marks, together. The badge used to own a row of its own:
+// ~17px plus an 8px margin out of the 122px a card has, spent before a character of body.
 //
-// One line carrying the badge, the title and the marks. The badge used to own a row of
-// its own: ~17px plus an 8px margin out of the 122px a card has, spent before a character
-// of body. `baseline` and not `center` so the badge and the glyphs sit on the title's
-// first line whether it takes one line or two.
+// ⚠️ A text block, not a flex row, and that is the whole point of this rule.
+//
+// As a row the title was a column between the badge and the marks, so it wrapped inside
+// 76px of a 224px card — where before the badge had a row of its own it had the full
+// width. Merging the rows bought the body two lines and charged the title for them.
+//
+// Here the badge and the marks are **inline**, so the title flows past them: it starts
+// after the badge and its second line runs from the left edge, full width. The clamp
+// moves up with it — it is the whole head that is two lines now, which is also the line
+// budget the ticket asked for.
 .card-head {
-  display: flex;
-  align-items: baseline;
-  gap: 7px;
+  display: -webkit-box;
+  -webkit-line-clamp: 2;
+  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
+  overflow: hidden;
   margin-bottom: 8px;
-  // Reserves room for the copy and ⋯ buttons floating over the top-right corner.
-  padding-right: 50px;
-  // ⚠️ And for the selection tick on the left, which floats at `left: 8px` while the card's
-  // own padding starts at 14px. It therefore lands on whatever begins this line — and it is
-  // not a hover-only concern: `checked` keeps it on with no pointer at all, which is the
-  // state a multiple selection leaves every card in. Unreserved, it sat squarely on the
+  font-size: 13px;
+  line-height: 1.3;
+  // Reserves room for the copy and ⋯ buttons floating over the top-right corner. Measured
+  // rather than guessed: on a 224px card they start 6px past where this edge lands.
+  padding-right: 46px;
+  // ⚠️ And for the selection tick on the left, which floats over the card's own padding.
+  // Not a hover-only concern: `checked` keeps it on with no pointer at all, which is the
+  // state a multiple selection leaves every card in. Unreserved it sat squarely on the
   // language badge, and on a todo list, which has no badge, it would sit on the title.
   // A permanent gutter rather than one that appears with the tick: the second would shift
   // the title sideways under the pointer.
-  padding-left: 14px;
-}
-
-.card-pin {
-  font-size: 11px;
+  padding-left: 8px;
 }
 
 .card-title {
-  flex: 1;
-  // Without it a flex item refuses to shrink below its content, and a long unbroken
-  // title would push the marks out past the card.
-  min-width: 0;
-  font-size: 13px;
   font-weight: 600;
   color: var(--text-0);
-  line-height: 1.3;
-  // ⚠️ A budget, not a nicety. The title had none: a long one took three lines and ate
-  // the body, so two cards side by side showed different amounts of it for no reason the
-  // user had chosen.
-  display: -webkit-box;
-  -webkit-line-clamp: 2;
-  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
-  overflow: hidden;
 }
 
+// Inline so the title flows past them rather than around a column of their own, and
+// before it so that no glyph can end up alone on a line of its own. The nowrap keeps the
+// cluster from being split across the two.
 .card-marks {
-  display: flex;
-  align-items: baseline;
-  gap: 6px;
-  flex-shrink: 0;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+
+app-language-badge,
+.card-marks {
+  margin-right: 5px;
+}
+
+.card-marks > * + * {
+  margin-left: 5px;
 }
 
 // `app-code-viewer` brings the colouring only; the typography stays decided here.
@@ -254,11 +255,26 @@ app-copy-button:focus-within {
   color: var(--text-2);
 }
 
+// ⚠️ Outside the card, into the grid gap, which is what keeps it clear of the copy and ⋯
+// buttons: those sit inside at 8px and 34px from the right edge, and anything drawn in
+// that band would be covered the moment the pointer arrived.
+.card-pin {
+  position: absolute;
+  top: -6px;
+  right: -4px;
+  z-index: 2;
+  font-size: 13px;
+  pointer-events: none;
+}
+
 .card-check {
   @include unstyled-control;
   position: absolute;
   top: 8px;
-  left: 8px;
+  // Tight into the corner, so the gutter the head reserves for it can be 8px rather than
+  // the 14 it needed at `left: 8px` — six pixels of a 224px card, on the line that wanted
+  // them most.
+  left: 2px;
   z-index: 1;
   padding: 2px 4px;
   font-size: 12px;
diff --git a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts
index 2f402ff..17f56c1 100644
--- a/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/notes/canvas/note-section/note-card/note-card.component.spec.ts
@@ -60,18 +60,34 @@ describe('NoteCardComponent', () => {
   /**
    * The badge used to own a row of its own above the title — ~17px plus an 8px margin out
    * of the 122px a card has, spent before a character of body. Structural rather than
-   * visual on purpose: jsdom lays nothing out, so what is asserted is that the three share
-   * one parent, which is what makes them one line.
+   * visual on purpose: jsdom lays nothing out, so what is asserted is that they share one
+   * parent, which is what makes them one block of text.
    */
-  it('puts the badge, the title and the marks on a single line', async () => {
-    fixture.componentRef.setInput('note', createNote({ title: 'My note', pinned: true, attachmentCount: 2 }));
+  it('puts the badge, the marks and the title in one block', async () => {
+    fixture.componentRef.setInput('note', createNote({ title: 'My note', attachmentCount: 2 }));
     await fixture.whenStable();
 
     const head = fixture.nativeElement.querySelector('.card-head');
     expect(head.querySelector('app-language-badge')).not.toBeNull();
-    expect(head.querySelector('[data-testid="note-card-title"]')).not.toBeNull();
     expect(head.querySelector('[data-testid="note-card-clip"]')).not.toBeNull();
-    expect(head.querySelector('[data-testid="note-card-pin"]')).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(head.querySelector('[data-testid="note-card-title"]')).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  /**
+   * ⚠️ Outside the head, and outside the card button with it. The head is text now, so a
+   * glyph inline with the title wrapped onto a line of its own whenever the title ended
+   * near the edge — and that second line cost the body one of its own.
+   */
+  it('drives the pin into the card corner rather than the line of text', async () => {
+    fixture.componentRef.setInput('note', createNote({ title: 'My note', pinned: true }));
+    await fixture.whenStable();
+
+    const pin = fixture.nativeElement.querySelector('[data-testid="note-card-pin"]');
+    expect(pin).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(pin.closest('.card-head')).toBeNull();
+    expect(pin.closest('.card-shell')).not.toBeNull();
+    // The state still reaches a screen reader, from inside the card where it belongs.
+    expect(fixture.nativeElement.querySelector('.card .visually-hidden').textContent).toBe('Note épinglée');
   });
 
   it('falls back to a translated placeholder for an untitled note', async () => {