diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cc45cab..50ed2b0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ The config window edits the same file: Settings at the foot of the control centr
 
 ### Glass
 
-`appearance.surface.design` picks what the island, the pills, the tray menu, the control centre and its popups are made of: `solid` (the wallpaper's gradient with an accent glow), `frosted` (a thin tint, a hairline white rim, a sheen along the top, a soft shadow) or `liquid` (clear glass, denser toward the bottom right, a light-catching edge, the accent's glow). Each design's opacity, rim and light are settings of their own (`appearance.solid|frosted|liquid.*`); the look itself is `src/surface.rs`, drawn by one shader (`src/surface.wgsl`: the shadow, the fill and the sheen or lit edge in one pass; the rim stays a border). On see-through glass a face fades with `.opacity()` instead of a veil, a GPU layer only while it fades.
+`appearance.surface.design` picks what the island, the pills, the tray menu, the control centre and its popups are made of: `solid` (the wallpaper's gradient with an accent glow), `frosted` (a thin tint, a hairline white rim, a sheen along the top, a soft shadow), `liquid` (clear glass, denser toward the bottom right, a light-catching edge, the accent's glow) or `glass` (after Apple's Liquid Glass: a thin tint and an edge like the rim of a lens, brightest where the light falls in at the top left, a glint where it leaves at the bottom right, a thin specular line and a faint warm and cool fringe). Each design's opacity, rim and light are settings of their own (`appearance.solid|frosted|liquid|glass.*`); the look itself is `src/surface.rs`, drawn by one shader (`src/surface.wgsl`: the shadow, the fill and the sheen or lit edge in one pass; the rim stays a border). `glass` has its own, `src/glass.wgsl`, drawn twice: the shadow and tint under the content, the lit edge over it, so a photo on a card lies behind the glass. Unlike Apple's, it doesn't bend the desktop at the rim: a shell's shader never sees what's behind its window, Hyprland's blur is all it has. On see-through glass a face fades with `.opacity()` instead of a veil, a GPU layer only while it fades.
 
 Screenshots of each design, from when they were made: `docs/design/` (`base-solid-card.png`, `base-glass-0.5-card.png` for solid below 1, `frosted-0.62-card.png`, `liquid-0.4-card.png`, and a board for each glass design: the card three times side by side, with the pills below).
 
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Amane draws rectangles, borders, letters and pictures as cheap quads, and gradie
 
 `tools/perf.sh PID [SECONDS]` (on the desktop) prints a process's CPU (and its children's), GPU per engine (DRM fdinfo) and memory.
 
-Amane can only blur what the shell draws, so the frosting comes from Hyprland: a layer rule for the shell's windows (the namespace match is a full match). `ignore_alpha` leaves pixels at or below that opacity unblurred, which keeps the clear margin around the pills sharp; keep it below the design's thinnest part, or that part shows the desktop unblurred (liquid at its default 0.4 is 0.22 in its top left corner).
+Amane can only blur what the shell draws, so the frosting comes from Hyprland: a layer rule for the shell's windows (the namespace match is a full match). `ignore_alpha` leaves pixels at or below that opacity unblurred, which keeps the clear margin around the pills sharp; keep it below the design's thinnest part, or that part shows the desktop unblurred (liquid at its default 0.4 is 0.22 in its top left corner; glass is its `opacity` all over, 0.32 by default).
 
 ```lua
 hl.layer_rule({
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ src/png.rs         a stdlib png writer, for tray icons sent as pixels
 src/system.rs      what the control centre shows: iwd, wired cards, openvpn, power, the external GPU
 src/glyph.rs       every drawn icon, as a Canvas or as shapes for a shared one
 src/theme.rs       the shell's colours: the matugen theme file, the cross-fade; watches config.toml
-src/surface.rs     what the island, pills, menus and popups are made of: the solid, frosted and liquid designs as values for surface.wgsl
+src/surface.rs     what the island, pills, menus and popups are made of: the solid, frosted and liquid designs as values for surface.wgsl, glass for glass.wgsl
 src/*.wgsl         shaders: surface (every surface), ring (the candles), curve (the equalizer's line)
 src/config.rs      every setting, declared once (typed accessors + the window's list), config.toml read and written
 src/hypr.rs        Hyprland's options for the config window: hyprctl descriptions/getoption, hl.config, amane.lua
diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
index 31b3d9f..b6a72ce 100644
--- a/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ settings! {
             hover_ms: u64 = 220, 0..=2000; "How long hover highlights take to fade in and out"
         }
         surface {
-            design: String ["solid", "frosted", "liquid"] = String::from("solid"); "What the island, the pills, the menus, the control centre and its popups are made of: solid (the wallpaper's gradient with an accent glow), frosted (a thin tint, a hairline rim and a sheen) or liquid (clear glass with a light-catching edge). See-through ones need Hyprland's blur behind the shell: README, Glass"
+            design: String ["solid", "frosted", "liquid", "glass"] = String::from("solid"); "What the island, the pills, the menus, the control centre and its popups are made of: solid (the wallpaper's gradient with an accent glow), frosted (a thin tint, a hairline rim and a sheen), liquid (clear glass with a light-catching edge) or glass (after Apple's Liquid Glass: a thin tint with a lens-like rim). See-through ones need Hyprland's blur behind the shell: README, Glass"
         }
         solid {
             opacity: f32 = 1.0, 0.05..=1.0; "How opaque the solid design is; below 1 the desktop shows through"
@@ -252,6 +252,14 @@ settings! {
             light: f32 = 0.235, 0.0..=1.0; "Opacity of the light caught at the top left edge"
             glow: f32 = 0.22, 0.0..=1.0; "Strength of the accent glow around each surface"
         }
+        glass {
+            opacity: f32 = 0.32, 0.05..=1.0; "How strongly the glass is tinted in its middle. Keep it above the ignore_alpha of Hyprland's layer rule, or the desktop behind isn't blurred (README, Glass)"
+            edge: f32 = 16.0, 1..=60; "Width of the band along the rim that catches the light like the edge of a lens, in pixels"
+            light: f32 = 0.55, 0.0..=1.0; "Strength of the light caught where it falls in (top left) and where it leaves (bottom right)"
+            rim: f32 = 0.5, 0.0..=1.0; "Strength of the thin bright line on the rim"
+            dispersion: f32 = 0.3, 0.0..=1.0; "Strength of the warm and cool fringe along the rim, as glass splits light"
+            shadow: f32 = 0.18, 0.0..=1.0; "Strength of the soft shadow under each surface"
+        }
         fallback {
             accent: Color = Color::rgb(247, 168, 200); "Accent, used until matugen writes ~/.config/amane/theme from the wallpaper"
             on_accent: Color = Color::rgb(40, 18, 32); "Text and icons on the accent colour, without a theme file"
diff --git a/src/glass.wgsl b/src/glass.wgsl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd00d33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/glass.wgsl
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+// glass after Apple's Liquid Glass, as far as a surface that can't see what's behind it
+// gets: a thin, lightly tinted middle over Hyprland's blur, and an edge drawn like the rim
+// of a lens: a band that brightens toward the rim where the light falls in (top left) and
+// where it leaves again (bottom right), a thin specular line on the rim itself, and a faint
+// warm and cool fringe. surface.rs fills the values:
+//   0: shape width, height, corner radius, margin (room around the shape for the shadow)
+//   1: shadow colour, its alpha already scaled by the shadow's strength
+//   2: shadow deviation, its x and y offset, lift (0 to 1, hovered or raised)
+//   3: width of the edge band in pixels, light, rim and fringe strengths (0 to 1)
+//   4-6: the tint, top left to bottom right, plain colours with the middle's opacity as alpha
+//   7.x: the layer: 1 the shadow and the tint, under the content; 2 the lit edge and the rim,
+//        over it (a photo on the card then lies behind the glass); 0 both
+
+fn erf7(x: f32) -> f32 {
+    let y = clamp(x * 1.1283791671, -100.0, 100.0);
+    let yy = y * y;
+    let z = y + (0.24295 + (0.03395 + 0.0104 * yy) * yy) * (y * yy);
+
+    return z / sqrt(1.0 + z * z);
+}
+
+// vello's blurred rounded rectangle at p, from its centre, as in surface.wgsl
+fn shadow(p: vec2<f32>, w: f32, h: f32, radius: f32, deviation: f32) -> f32 {
+    let s = max(deviation, 1e-5);
+    let inv = 1.0 / s;
+    let min_edge = min(w, h);
+    let radius_max = 0.5 * min_edge;
+    let r0 = min(length(vec2<f32>(radius, s * 1.15)), radius_max);
+    let r1 = min(length(vec2<f32>(radius, s * 2.0)), radius_max);
+    let exponent = 2.0 * r1 / r0;
+
+    let delta = 1.25 * s * (exp(-pow(0.5 * inv * w, 2.0)) - exp(-pow(0.5 * inv * h, 2.0)));
+    let width = w + min(delta, 0.0);
+    let height = h - max(delta, 0.0);
+
+    let scale = 0.5 * erf7(inv * 0.5 * (max(width, height) - 0.5 * radius));
+
+    let y0 = abs(p.y) - (height * 0.5 - r1);
+    let x0 = abs(p.x) - (width * 0.5 - r1);
+    let d_pos = pow(pow(max(x0, 0.0), exponent) + pow(max(y0, 0.0), exponent), 1.0 / exponent);
+    let d = d_pos + min(max(x0, y0), 0.0) - r1;
+
+    return scale * (erf7(inv * (min_edge + d)) - erf7(inv * d));
+}
+
+// signed distance to a rounded rectangle centred on 0, negative inside
+fn rounded(p: vec2<f32>, half: vec2<f32>, radius: f32) -> f32 {
+    let r = min(radius, min(half.x, half.y));
+    let q = abs(p) - half + vec2<f32>(r);
+
+    return length(max(q, vec2<f32>(0.0))) + min(max(q.x, q.y), 0.0) - r;
+}
+
+// the way out of the shape at p: across a side, or out from a corner's centre
+fn outward(p: vec2<f32>, half: vec2<f32>, radius: f32) -> vec2<f32> {
+    let r = min(radius, min(half.x, half.y));
+    let q = abs(p) - half + vec2<f32>(r);
+    let side = select(vec2<f32>(-1.0), vec2<f32>(1.0), p >= vec2<f32>(0.0));
+
+    if q.x > 0.0 && q.y > 0.0 {
+        return normalize(q) * side;
+    }
+
+    return select(vec2<f32>(0.0, side.y), vec2<f32>(side.x, 0.0), q.x > q.y);
+}
+
+// premultiplied colours, one over the other
+fn over(top: vec4<f32>, under: vec4<f32>) -> vec4<f32> {
+    return top + under * (1.0 - top.a);
+}
+
+// amane blends a plain colour over the window
+fn plain(color: vec4<f32>) -> vec4<f32> {
+    if color.a <= 0.0 {
+        return vec4<f32>(0.0);
+    }
+
+    return vec4<f32>(color.rgb / color.a, color.a);
+}
+
+@fragment
+fn main(@location(0) uv: vec2<f32>) -> @location(0) vec4<f32> {
+    let shape = values[0];
+    let extent = shape.xy;
+    let centre = extent / 2.0;
+    let lift = values[2].w;
+    let edge = max(values[3].x, 1.0);
+    let light = values[3].y * (1.0 + 0.35 * lift);
+    let rim = values[3].z * (1.0 + 0.35 * lift);
+    let fringe = values[3].w;
+
+    let layer = u32(values[7].x);
+
+    let p = uv * size - vec2<f32>(shape.w);
+    let pixel = max(fwidth(p.x), 1e-4);
+    let from_centre = p - centre;
+
+    let shade = select(shadow(from_centre - values[2].yz, extent.x, extent.y, shape.z, values[2].x) * values[1].a, 0.0, layer == 2u);
+    let under = vec4<f32>(values[1].rgb * shade, shade);
+
+    let d = rounded(from_centre, centre, shape.z);
+    let inside = clamp(0.5 - d / pixel, 0.0, 1.0);
+
+    if inside <= 0.0 {
+        return plain(under);
+    }
+
+    // the tint, a gradient over the shape from its top left to its bottom right
+    let t = clamp(dot(p / max(extent, vec2<f32>(1.0)), vec2<f32>(0.5)), 0.0, 1.0);
+    let tint = select(mix(values[5], values[6], (t - 0.5) * 2.0), mix(values[4], values[5], t * 2.0), t < 0.5);
+
+    var glass = select(vec4<f32>(tint.rgb * tint.a, tint.a), vec4<f32>(0.0), layer == 2u);
+
+    if layer == 1u {
+        return plain(over(glass * inside, under));
+    }
+
+    // the lens: 1 on the rim, 0 deeper in than `edge`, steepest at the rim like a bevel
+    let band = pow(1.0 - smoothstep(0.0, edge, max(-d, 0.0)), 2.0);
+
+    // which way this part of the rim faces: toward the light (top left) is 1, away is -1
+    let facing = dot(outward(from_centre, centre, shape.z), vec2<f32>(-0.7071, -0.7071));
+
+    // a faint warm fringe toward the light and a cool one away from it
+    let hue = mix(vec3<f32>(0.75, 0.85, 1.0), vec3<f32>(1.0, 0.9, 0.78), facing * 0.5 + 0.5);
+    let tone = mix(vec3<f32>(1.0), hue, fringe);
+
+    // brightest where the light comes in, a weaker glint where it goes out, a little all round
+    let caught = clamp(light * band * (0.9 * max(facing, 0.0) + 0.45 * max(-facing, 0.0) + 0.12), 0.0, 1.0);
+
+    glass = over(vec4<f32>(tone * caught, caught), glass);
+
+    // the specular line on the rim itself, about 1.5 px wide
+    let line = clamp(clamp((d + 1.5) / pixel, 0.0, 1.0) * rim * (0.35 + 0.65 * abs(facing)), 0.0, 1.0);
+
+    glass = over(vec4<f32>(tone * line, line), glass);
+
+    return plain(over(glass * inside, under));
+}
diff --git a/src/surface.rs b/src/surface.rs
index 2605b6b..864f67d 100644
--- a/src/surface.rs
+++ b/src/surface.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 use amane::{Blend, Color, Rectangle, Stack, children};
 
-use crate::config::appearance::{frosted, liquid, solid, surface};
+use crate::config::appearance::{frosted, glass, liquid, solid, surface};
 use crate::island::faded;
 use crate::theme;
 
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ use crate::theme;
  * the rim stays a border, which amane draws as a quad
  */
 pub fn shell(width: f32, height: f32, radius: f32, colors: &[Color; 3], lift: f32, content: Rectangle) -> Rectangle {
+    if surface::design() == "glass" {
+        return glass_shell(width, height, radius, colors, lift, content);
+    }
+
     let theme = theme::now();
 
     let look = match surface::design().as_str() {
@@ -89,6 +93,49 @@ pub fn clear() -> bool {
 }
 
 static SHADER: LazyLock<PathBuf> = LazyLock::new(|| shader_file("surface.wgsl", include_str!("surface.wgsl")));
+static GLASS: LazyLock<PathBuf> = LazyLock::new(|| shader_file("glass.wgsl", include_str!("glass.wgsl")));
+
+/*
+ * after Apple's Liquid Glass: glass.wgsl draws the shadow and the thin tint in the
+ * wallpaper's colours under the content, and the lens-like edge with its rim over it, so a
+ * photo on a card lies behind the glass; there's no border. the frosting behind is
+ * Hyprland's blur; the desktop isn't bent at the rim the way Apple's glass bends it, since
+ * a shell's shader can't see what's behind its window
+ */
+fn glass_shell(width: f32, height: f32, radius: f32, colors: &[Color; 3], lift: f32, content: Rectangle) -> Rectangle {
+    let (blur, drop): (f32, f32) = (22.0, 6.0);
+    let margin = (1.25 * blur + drop).ceil();
+
+    let mut shadow = plain(Color::BLACK);
+
+    shadow[3] = (glass::shadow() + 0.1 * lift).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+
+    let tint = |color: Color| {
+        let mut tint = plain(color);
+
+        tint[3] = glass::opacity().clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+
+        tint
+    };
+
+    // the under layer covers the shadow's room around the shape too, the edge only the shape
+    let layer = |which: f32, margin: f32| {
+        let values = vec![
+            [width, height, radius, margin],
+            shadow,
+            [blur / 2.0, 0.0, drop, lift],
+            [glass::edge(), glass::light(), glass::rim(), glass::dispersion()],
+            tint(colors[0]),
+            tint(colors[1]),
+            tint(colors[2]),
+            [which, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
+        ];
+
+        Rectangle::new().width(width + 2.0 * margin).height(height + 2.0 * margin).translate(-margin, -margin).shader(GLASS.as_path()).shader_values(values)
+    };
+
+    Rectangle::new().width(width).height(height).child(Stack::new(children![layer(1.0, margin), content, layer(2.0, 0.0)]).width(width).height(height))
+}
 
 // a shader's source is part of the shell; amane wants a file, so it goes beside cava's config
 pub fn shader_file(name: &str, source: &str) -> PathBuf {