diff --git a/custom_components/nestquest/www/nestquest-cards.js b/custom_components/nestquest/www/nestquest-cards.js
index 8f0296d..b221b38 100644
--- a/custom_components/nestquest/www/nestquest-cards.js
+++ b/custom_components/nestquest/www/nestquest-cards.js
@@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ const Nt = "polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 100% 62%, 50% 100%, 0 62%)", Ye = "polygon(50%
     flex: none;
     width: 96px;
     height: 110px;
-    padding: 3px;
+    padding: 4px;
     clip-path: ${v(Nt)};
     background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.22);
   }
@@ -3091,7 +3091,7 @@ class un extends A {
     const e = this._childSlug(), n = t.kind === "away", i = n ? t.name : this._childName(e) ?? (e ? Y(e) : null), { due: r, completed: o } = this._childCounts(e), l = this._remaining(), a = this._partyCounts(), p = i ? `${i}'s Quest Log` : "Quest Log", u = (i?.charAt(0) || "?").toUpperCase();
     return d`
       <header class="header">
-        <span class="crest${n ? " away" : g}" aria-hidden="true">
+        <span class="crest${n ? " away" : ""}" aria-hidden="true">
           <span class="crest-face">
             <span class="initial">${u}</span>
           </span>
diff --git a/frontend/src/cards/quest-log.ts b/frontend/src/cards/quest-log.ts
index fba8929..5e12a48 100644
--- a/frontend/src/cards/quest-log.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/cards/quest-log.ts
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ const logStyles = css`
     flex: none;
     width: 96px;
     height: 110px;
-    padding: 3px;
+    padding: 4px;
     clip-path: ${unsafeCSS(SHIELD_CLIP)};
     background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.22);
   }
@@ -1938,7 +1938,7 @@ export class NestQuestQuestLogCard extends LitElement {
     const initial = (name?.charAt(0) || "?").toUpperCase();
     return html`
       <header class="header">
-        <span class="crest${away ? " away" : nothing}" aria-hidden="true">
+        <span class="crest${away ? " away" : ""}" aria-hidden="true">
           <span class="crest-face">
             <span class="initial">${initial}</span>
           </span>
diff --git a/tests/test_panel_cards.py b/tests/test_panel_cards.py
index 2ef824f..09e41c8 100644
--- a/tests/test_panel_cards.py
+++ b/tests/test_panel_cards.py
@@ -916,3 +916,71 @@ def test_quest_complete_screen_returns_to_the_board_after_the_countdown() -> Non
     assert result["probe"]["countdown"] == "Returning to The Party in 1 seconds"
     # …and at zero the card has returned to the party board.
     assert result["location"] == "/nestquest"
+
+
+def test_quest_log_crest_keeps_its_shield_classes() -> None:
+    """PANEL-SPEC §3 header crest: a present child's crest renders as the
+    styled shield, not a bare span. Lit removes an attribute outright when
+    any interpolated part of it is ``nothing``, so a class written as
+    ``crest${away ? " away" : nothing}`` lost ``crest`` for every present
+    child and the header showed an unstyled sliver. The rendered markup
+    must carry ``class="crest"`` (present) and ``class="crest away"``
+    (away), each wrapping the face and initial."""
+    generated = _generate_dashboard(
+        {}, _three_child_states(), url="http://homeassistant.local/nestquest"
+    )
+    log_config = generated["views"][1]["cards"][0]
+    for slug, crest_class in (("ada", "crest"), ("bo", "crest away")):
+        result = _render_quest_log(
+            log_config,
+            _three_child_states(),
+            url=f"http://homeassistant.local/nestquest/{slug}",
+        )
+        header = result["html"][result["html"].index('<header class="header">') :]
+        crest = re.match(
+            r'<header class="header">\s*(?:<!--[^>]*-->\s*)*<span ([^>]*)>\s*'
+            r'<span class="crest-face">\s*<span class="initial">',
+            header,
+        )
+        assert crest is not None, header[:600]
+        assert f'class="{crest_class}"' in crest.group(1), crest.group(1)
+
+
+def test_quest_log_crest_matches_the_spec_geometry() -> None:
+    """PANEL-SPEC §3 header crest: 96x110 shield, 4px ring of
+    rgba(255,255,255,.22) around the --nq-p-crest face, 44px/700 display
+    initial in full-opacity white; away swaps only the face gradient.
+    jsdom cannot lay out, so this pins the stylesheet the rendered test
+    above shows is applied."""
+    source = QUEST_LOG.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+
+    def rule(selector: str) -> str:
+        found = re.search(
+            r"\n  " + re.escape(selector) + r" \{(.*?)\n  \}", source, re.DOTALL
+        )
+        assert found is not None, selector
+        return found.group(1)
+
+    crest = rule(".crest")
+    for decl in (
+        "width: 96px;",
+        "height: 110px;",
+        "padding: 4px;",
+        "clip-path: ${unsafeCSS(SHIELD_CLIP)};",
+        "background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.22);",
+    ):
+        assert decl in crest, decl
+    face = rule(".crest-face")
+    assert "background: var(--nq-p-crest);" in face
+    assert "clip-path: ${unsafeCSS(SHIELD_CLIP)};" in face
+    initial = rule(".crest .initial")
+    for decl in (
+        "font-family: var(--nq-p-font-display);",
+        "font-size: 44px;",
+        "font-weight: 700;",
+        "color: #ffffff;",
+    ):
+        assert decl in initial, decl
+    assert "opacity" not in initial
+    away = rule(".crest.away .crest-face")
+    assert away.strip() == "background: var(--nq-p-crest-away);"