diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index a01d87d..e8ae0fc 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -52,6 +52,6 @@
     <p class="start">TAP TO START</p>
   </div>
 </div>
-<script type="module" src="main.js?v=19"></script>
+<script type="module" src="main.js?v=20"></script>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/render.js b/render.js
index 5117f58..8a6ca14 100644
--- a/render.js
+++ b/render.js
@@ -428,15 +428,16 @@ export function render() {
         ctx.fill();
       };
       // Chevrons stepped along the lane in WORLD space, each sized by its own projection scale,
-      // so they shrink into the distance like everything else on the court. They also fade IN
-      // toward the target: faint at your racket, solid on the body, which walks the eye up the
-      // lane instead of leaving a uniform stripe. More of them, and fatter, the harder you draw.
+      // so they shrink into the distance like everything else on the court. They also fade OUT
+      // toward the target: solid at your racket, thinning up the lane, so the trail reads as
+      // something leaving your hand rather than as a label on the zombie. More of them, and
+      // fatter, the harder you draw.
       const n = Math.round(3 + ft.f * 5);
       ctx.fillStyle = col;
       for (let i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
         const u = i / (n + 1);
         const c = proj(P.x + (tx - P.x) * u, 1.4 + (0.35 - 1.4) * u, P.z + (tz - P.z) * u);
-        chevron(c, Math.max(1.5, c.s * (0.07 + ft.f * 0.09)), 0.3 + 0.7 * u);
+        chevron(c, Math.max(1.5, c.s * (0.07 + ft.f * 0.09)), 1 - 0.7 * u);
       }
       chevron(b, Math.max(2.5, b.s * (0.10 + ft.f * 0.11)), 1); // the arrowhead lands ON the target
       ctx.globalAlpha = 1;