diff --git a/internal/tui/bulk_reply.go b/internal/tui/bulk_reply.go
index 84cac09c..f7777540 100644
--- a/internal/tui/bulk_reply.go
+++ b/internal/tui/bulk_reply.go
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ func newBulkReplyForm(postingIDs []int64, draft *generated.BulkReplyDraft, s sty
 	}
 	form.preview = viewport.New(viewport.WithWidth(80), viewport.WithHeight(24))
 	form.preview.SetContent(form.previewContent(80))
-	form.body = textarea.New()
+	form.body = newTextArea()
 	form.body.Prompt = ""
 	form.body.ShowLineNumbers = false
 	form.body.Placeholder = "Write the reply that every selected thread will receive…"
diff --git a/internal/tui/compose.go b/internal/tui/compose.go
index dc909bd6..357abdac 100644
--- a/internal/tui/compose.go
+++ b/internal/tui/compose.go
@@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ func newComposeForm(mode composeMode, s styles) *composeForm {
 		labels = append(labels, "Subject")
 	}
 	for _, l := range labels {
-		in := textinput.New()
+		in := newTextInput()
 		in.Prompt = ""
 		in.Placeholder = placeholderFor(l)
 		f.inputs = append(f.inputs, in)
 	}
-	f.body = textarea.New()
+	f.body = newTextArea()
 	f.body.Prompt = ""
 	f.body.ShowLineNumbers = false
 	f.body.Placeholder = "Write your message… Markdown works here"
diff --git a/internal/tui/contact_form.go b/internal/tui/contact_form.go
index dc171684..c8502cd2 100644
--- a/internal/tui/contact_form.go
+++ b/internal/tui/contact_form.go
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func newContactForm(mode contactFormMode, contact Contact, styles styles) *conta
 	form := &contactForm{mode: mode, contactID: contact.ID, styles: styles}
 	placeholders := []string{"Jane Doe", "jane@example.com", "jane.doe@example.org, jane@example.net"}
 	for _, placeholder := range placeholders {
-		input := textinput.New()
+		input := newTextInput()
 		input.Prompt = ""
 		input.Placeholder = placeholder
 		form.inputs = append(form.inputs, input)
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ type contactNoteForm struct {
 }
 
 func newContactNoteForm(contactID int64, note string, styles styles) *contactNoteForm {
-	input := textarea.New()
+	input := newTextArea()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.ShowLineNumbers = false
 	input.Placeholder = "Add a private note…"
diff --git a/internal/tui/datetime.go b/internal/tui/datetime.go
index f5bb7577..6cad72ee 100644
--- a/internal/tui/datetime.go
+++ b/internal/tui/datetime.go
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ func newDateTimePicker(at time.Time, allDay bool) *dateTimePicker {
 }
 
 func dateTimeInput(placeholder string, width int) textinput.Model {
-	input := textinput.New()
+	input := newTextInput()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.Placeholder = placeholder
 	input.SetWidth(width)
diff --git a/internal/tui/event_form.go b/internal/tui/event_form.go
index 884c6255..ce301315 100644
--- a/internal/tui/event_form.go
+++ b/internal/tui/event_form.go
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ func newEventForm(mode eventFormMode, event Recording, on time.Time, calendars [
 }
 
 func eventInput(placeholder string, width int) textinput.Model {
-	input := textinput.New()
+	input := newTextInput()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.Placeholder = placeholder
 	if width > 0 {
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ func eventInput(placeholder string, width int) textinput.Model {
 // eventNotesInput is the one field somebody writes a paragraph into, so it takes several lines
 // and enter puts a new one in rather than moving on. Tab is how the reader leaves it.
 func eventNotesInput() textarea.Model {
-	input := textarea.New()
+	input := newTextArea()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.ShowLineNumbers = false
 	input.Placeholder = "Agenda, what to bring, anything"
diff --git a/internal/tui/folders.go b/internal/tui/folders.go
index 7baf107b..8ea9d4c3 100644
--- a/internal/tui/folders.go
+++ b/internal/tui/folders.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ func newFolderPicker(posting mail.Posting, sources []mail.Source) *folderPicker
 			folders = append(folders, source)
 		}
 	}
-	input := textinput.New()
+	input := newTextInput()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.Placeholder = "Label name…"
 	return &folderPicker{posting: posting, folders: folders, input: input}
diff --git a/internal/tui/habit_form.go b/internal/tui/habit_form.go
index 3d14acaf..ba394018 100644
--- a/internal/tui/habit_form.go
+++ b/internal/tui/habit_form.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ type habitForm struct {
 }
 
 func newHabitForm(mode habitFormMode, recording Recording, styles styles) *habitForm {
-	name := textinput.New()
+	name := newTextInput()
 	name.Prompt = ""
 	name.Placeholder = "Morning strength training"
 
diff --git a/internal/tui/inputs.go b/internal/tui/inputs.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7a273f19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/tui/inputs.go
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+package tui
+
+import (
+	"charm.land/bubbles/v2/textarea"
+	"charm.land/bubbles/v2/textinput"
+	"charm.land/lipgloss/v2"
+)
+
+// newTextArea and newTextInput are how every text field in the TUI is built.
+//
+// bubbles' New() hands a field a palette chosen for one background: the focused
+// cursor line on ANSI slot 0, blurred text on slot 7, placeholders in the
+// 256-color cube. On a stock light terminal that is a black band over grey
+// text (hey-cli#331); Omarchy remaps slots 0 and 7 to the theme's own paper
+// and ink, which is why the defect never shows there. Choosing the other
+// palette for a light theme would fix the band and leave a field that has a
+// mode at all — stale the moment the theme flips under it, since a widget keeps
+// the Styles it was handed.
+//
+// So these styles name no color. Like the rest of styles.go they lean on what
+// the terminal already decided: default foreground for text, the SGR faint
+// attribute (styleMuted) for what is secondary, reverse video for a selection.
+// A theme switch retints all of it over OSC 4 with nothing to re-apply, and
+// flipping Theme.Dark changes no byte of the output — TestTextFieldsDoNotDependOnTheThemeMode
+// holds that line the way TestCoversDoNotDependOnTheThemeMode does for the covers.
+// Do not call textarea.New or textinput.New directly.
+func newTextArea() textarea.Model {
+	field := textarea.New()
+	field.SetStyles(textAreaStyles())
+	return field
+}
+
+func newTextInput() textinput.Model {
+	field := textinput.New()
+	field.SetStyles(textInputStyles())
+	return field
+}
+
+func textAreaStyles() textarea.Styles {
+	plain := lipgloss.NewStyle()
+	focused := textarea.StyleState{
+		Base:             plain,
+		Text:             plain,
+		LineNumber:       styleMuted,
+		CursorLineNumber: plain,
+		CursorLine:       plain, // no band: the cursor itself says where the line is
+		EndOfBuffer:      styleMuted,
+		Placeholder:      styleMuted,
+		Prompt:           plain,
+		Selection:        lipgloss.NewStyle().Reverse(true),
+	}
+	blurred := focused
+	blurred.Text = styleMuted
+	blurred.CursorLine = styleMuted
+	blurred.CursorLineNumber = styleMuted
+	return textarea.Styles{
+		Focused: focused,
+		Blurred: blurred,
+		// No Color: the terminal's own cursor color, whatever the theme made it.
+		Cursor: textarea.CursorStyle{Shape: textarea.DefaultDarkStyles().Cursor.Shape, Blink: true},
+	}
+}
+
+func textInputStyles() textinput.Styles {
+	plain := lipgloss.NewStyle()
+	focused := textinput.StyleState{
+		Text:        plain,
+		Placeholder: styleMuted,
+		Suggestion:  styleMuted,
+		Prompt:      plain,
+	}
+	blurred := focused
+	blurred.Text = styleMuted
+	return textinput.Styles{
+		Focused: focused,
+		Blurred: blurred,
+		Cursor:  textinput.CursorStyle{Shape: textinput.DefaultDarkStyles().Cursor.Shape, Blink: true},
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/tui/inputs_test.go b/internal/tui/inputs_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..366a1326
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/tui/inputs_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+package tui
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"charm.land/lipgloss/v2"
+)
+
+// The text fields name no color of their own, so the theme's mode cannot change a
+// byte of what they draw — the same guard TestCoversDoNotDependOnTheThemeMode gives
+// the cover art. bubbles' default did depend on it: its dark palette paints a light
+// terminal with a black cursor line and grey text (hey-cli#331).
+func TestTextFieldsDoNotDependOnTheThemeMode(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Cleanup(func() { applyTheme(defaultTheme()) })
+
+	render := func(dark bool) (area, input string) {
+		theme := defaultTheme()
+		theme.Dark = dark
+		applyTheme(theme)
+
+		a := newTextArea()
+		a.SetWidth(40)
+		a.SetHeight(3)
+		a.SetValue("Quarterly numbers for the board")
+		a.Focus()
+		i := newTextInput()
+		i.SetWidth(40)
+		i.SetValue("Jane Doe")
+		i.Focus()
+		return a.View(), i.View()
+	}
+
+	darkArea, darkInput := render(true)
+	lightArea, lightInput := render(false)
+	if darkArea != lightArea {
+		t.Errorf("textarea renders differently on a light theme:\n%q\n%q", darkArea, lightArea)
+	}
+	if darkInput != lightInput {
+		t.Errorf("textinput renders differently on a light theme:\n%q\n%q", darkInput, lightInput)
+	}
+
+	// The focused cursor line carries no background: that band is the defect.
+	if bg, unset := textAreaStyles().Focused.CursorLine.GetBackground(), lipgloss.NewStyle().GetBackground(); bg != unset {
+		t.Errorf("focused cursor line has a background %v, want none", bg)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(darkArea, "\x1b[40m") || strings.Contains(darkArea, "48;5;0m") {
+		t.Errorf("textarea paints a black cursor line: %q", darkArea)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(darkArea, "Quarterly numbers") || !strings.Contains(darkInput, "Jane Doe") {
+		t.Errorf("fields dropped their text:\n%q\n%q", darkArea, darkInput)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/tui/journal.go b/internal/tui/journal.go
index 915e61c8..e3601c64 100644
--- a/internal/tui/journal.go
+++ b/internal/tui/journal.go
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ type journalPrompt struct {
 }
 
 func newJournalPrompt(kind journalPromptKind, value string, styles styles) *journalPrompt {
-	input := textinput.New()
+	input := newTextInput()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.SetValue(value)
 	if kind == journalPromptSearch {
diff --git a/internal/tui/journal_form.go b/internal/tui/journal_form.go
index 1336a8df..a5b852ae 100644
--- a/internal/tui/journal_form.go
+++ b/internal/tui/journal_form.go
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ type journalForm struct {
 }
 
 func newJournalForm(date, content string, styles styles) *journalForm {
-	input := textarea.New()
+	input := newTextArea()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.ShowLineNumbers = false
 	input.Placeholder = "Write about your day…"
diff --git a/internal/tui/search.go b/internal/tui/search.go
index 7ecf0446..422f5824 100644
--- a/internal/tui/search.go
+++ b/internal/tui/search.go
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ type mailSearchForm struct {
 }
 
 func newMailSearchForm(query string, styles styles) *mailSearchForm {
-	input := textinput.New()
+	input := newTextInput()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.Placeholder = "Search threads and messages…"
 	input.SetValue(query)
diff --git a/internal/tui/snippets.go b/internal/tui/snippets.go
index b8fd0dca..15d23eee 100644
--- a/internal/tui/snippets.go
+++ b/internal/tui/snippets.go
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ type snippetPicker struct {
 }
 
 func newSnippetPicker(returnFocus int) *snippetPicker {
-	input := textinput.New()
+	input := newTextInput()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.Placeholder = "Filter snippets…"
 	return &snippetPicker{input: input, cursor: -1, loading: true, returnFocus: returnFocus}
diff --git a/internal/tui/time_track.go b/internal/tui/time_track.go
index 8c59aa93..5a68ad37 100644
--- a/internal/tui/time_track.go
+++ b/internal/tui/time_track.go
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ type timeTrackCategoryManager struct {
 }
 
 func newTimeTrackCategoryManager() *timeTrackCategoryManager {
-	input := textinput.New()
+	input := newTextInput()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.Placeholder = "Category title…"
 	return &timeTrackCategoryManager{input: input}
diff --git a/internal/tui/time_track_form.go b/internal/tui/time_track_form.go
index 05b56f30..06a4facf 100644
--- a/internal/tui/time_track_form.go
+++ b/internal/tui/time_track_form.go
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func newTimeTrackForm(track trackedTime, categories []generated.TimeTrackCategor
 }
 
 func trackInput(placeholder string) textinput.Model {
-	input := textinput.New()
+	input := newTextInput()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.Placeholder = placeholder
 	return input
diff --git a/internal/tui/todos.go b/internal/tui/todos.go
index 74c2b6b6..eec7817a 100644
--- a/internal/tui/todos.go
+++ b/internal/tui/todos.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ type todoPicker struct {
 }
 
 func newTodoPicker(todos []Recording) *todoPicker {
-	input := textinput.New()
+	input := newTextInput()
 	input.Prompt = ""
 	input.Placeholder = "Renew passport"
 	return &todoPicker{todos: todos, input: input}