diff --git a/compiler/src/capture/capture.ts b/compiler/src/capture/capture.ts
index 270c083..010a2aa 100644
--- a/compiler/src/capture/capture.ts
+++ b/compiler/src/capture/capture.ts
@@ -182,6 +182,28 @@ export function looksLikeVideoFile(bytes: Buffer): boolean {
   return false;
 }
 
+/** Container-magic check for accepted font bytes, mirroring `looksLikeVideoFile`. A router that
+ *  answers 200+HTML for an unknown `/media/*` path (common on SPA hosts) otherwise gets stored as
+ *  a `.woff2`; the browser rejects it as a font and the whole page falls through to a system
+ *  fallback. Accept only the real font-container signatures — woff2 (`wOF2`), woff (`wOFF`),
+ *  OpenType/CFF (`OTTO`), TrueType (`\x00\x01\x00\x00` or `true`/`ttcf`), and EOT (the version
+ *  header at bytes 8..11 is `\x01\x00\x01\x00`/`\x02\x00\x01\x00`, so key EOT off its unique
+ *  0x504C signature at offset 34) — and explicitly reject an HTML/text body. */
+export function looksLikeFontFile(bytes: Buffer): boolean {
+  if (bytes.length < 4) return false;
+  const b0 = bytes[0]!, b1 = bytes[1]!, b2 = bytes[2]!, b3 = bytes[3]!;
+  // A leading `<` (`<!DOCTYPE`, `<html`, `<?xml`, `<svg`) is never a binary font container.
+  if (b0 === 0x3c) return false;
+  const tag = bytes.subarray(0, 4).toString("latin1");
+  if (tag === "wOF2" || tag === "wOFF") return true; // woff2 / woff
+  if (tag === "OTTO" || tag === "true" || tag === "ttcf") return true; // CFF OpenType / TrueType / TrueType collection
+  if (b0 === 0x00 && b1 === 0x01 && b2 === 0x00 && b3 === 0x00) return true; // TrueType sfnt (\x00\x01\x00\x00)
+  // EOT: a little-endian byte count precedes a version/flags header; its stable marker is the
+  // 0x504C ("LP") magic at byte offset 34.
+  if (bytes.length >= 36 && bytes[34] === 0x4c && bytes[35] === 0x50) return true;
+  return false;
+}
+
 /**
  * A `<source>` candidate for the HTML media resource-selection algorithm. `media`/`type` are the
  * raw attribute strings (null/undefined when absent, matching a missing attribute).
@@ -1047,6 +1069,10 @@ export async function captureSite(opts: {
     // page stored under first-stored-wins ships a corrupt file). Left unstored, the
     // asset surfaces in visual_assets_missing instead.
     if (type === "video" && !looksLikeVideoFile(bytes)) return;
+    // Same guard for fonts: a 200+HTML body (SPA router answering an unknown /media/* path) must not
+    // be stored as a .woff2. Left unstored, the face surfaces as failed, so the font graph can fall
+    // back to a correctly-resolved duplicate url instead of shipping an impostor the browser rejects.
+    if (type === "font" && !looksLikeFontFile(bytes)) return;
     const a = assetMap.get(url) ?? recordAsset(url, type, null, null, "network");
     if (a.storedAs) return;
     // A `.lottie` (dotLottie) asset is a ZIP archive, not bare lottie-web JSON. lottie-web's
diff --git a/compiler/src/capture/walker.ts b/compiler/src/capture/walker.ts
index 4d523c9..0cb039b 100644
--- a/compiler/src/capture/walker.ts
+++ b/compiler/src/capture/walker.ts
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ export type FontFace = {
   display?: string;
   unicodeRange?: string;
   stretch?: string;
+  // Url of the stylesheet this face was declared in (undefined for an inline <style>, or for faces
+  // parsed out-of-band where the base is already baked into `src`). The src descriptor's relative
+  // url()s resolve against this, not the document — see readRules and parseSrcUrls.
+  baseHref?: string;
 };
 
 export type PageSnapshot = {
@@ -600,17 +604,34 @@ export function collectPage(opts?: { maxNodes?: number } | void): PageSnapshot {
   // dropped, collapsing the box in the clone.
   const explicitWidthSelectors: string[] = [];
 
-  const absUrl = (u: string): string => {
-    try { return new URL(u, document.baseURI).href; } catch { return u; }
+  const absUrl = (u: string, base?: string): string => {
+    try { return new URL(u, base || document.baseURI).href; } catch { return u; }
   };
 
-  const harvestUrlsFromText = (text: string): void => {
+  // A relative url() inside a stylesheet resolves against THAT STYLESHEET'S url, not the document —
+  // `url("../media/x.woff2")` in `/a/b/css/sheet.css` points at `/a/b/media/x.woff2`, which is a
+  // different file from the document-relative `/media/x.woff2`. Resolving font/image srcs against
+  // `document.baseURI` fetches the wrong path (often the SPA router's 200+HTML shell), so a harvested
+  // face src must carry its owning sheet's base. Walk up through `@import` nesting (parentStyleSheet
+  // via ownerRule) to the nearest sheet that actually has an href; an inline `<style>` has none, so
+  // it correctly falls back to the document base.
+  const sheetBaseHref = (sheet: CSSStyleSheet | null | undefined): string | undefined => {
+    let s: CSSStyleSheet | null | undefined = sheet;
+    // Bound the walk defensively; @import chains are shallow in practice.
+    for (let i = 0; s && i < 32; i++) {
+      if (s.href) return s.href;
+      s = s.ownerRule?.parentStyleSheet ?? null;
+    }
+    return undefined;
+  };
+
+  const harvestUrlsFromText = (text: string, base?: string): void => {
     const re = /url\(\s*(['"]?)([^'")]+)\1\s*\)/g;
     let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
     while ((m = re.exec(text)) !== null) {
       const raw = m[2];
       if (!raw || raw.startsWith("data:")) continue;
-      cssUrlSet.add(absUrl(raw));
+      cssUrlSet.add(absUrl(raw, base));
     }
   };
 
@@ -663,7 +684,12 @@ export function collectPage(opts?: { maxNodes?: number } | void): PageSnapshot {
     return false;
   };
 
-  const readRules = (rules: CSSRuleList): void => {
+  // `base` is the url of the stylesheet these rules live in (undefined for an inline <style>, which
+  // resolves against the document). It is threaded so every harvested url() — @font-face src and
+  // ordinary style-rule url() alike — resolves relative to its OWNING sheet, not the page. The src
+  // string is left verbatim on the FontFace (parseSrcUrls re-absolutizes it downstream against the
+  // same base), but the base still drives the cssUrlSet entry that triggers the download.
+  const readRules = (rules: CSSRuleList, base?: string): void => {
     for (const rule of Array.from(rules)) {
       const type = rule.constructor.name;
       if (type === "CSSFontFaceRule") {
@@ -680,14 +706,15 @@ export function collectPage(opts?: { maxNodes?: number } | void): PageSnapshot {
             display: s.getPropertyValue("font-display") || undefined,
             unicodeRange: s.getPropertyValue("unicode-range") || undefined,
             stretch: s.getPropertyValue("font-stretch") || undefined,
+            baseHref: base,
           });
-          harvestUrlsFromText(src);
+          harvestUrlsFromText(src, base);
         }
       } else if (type === "CSSKeyframesRule") {
         keyframes.push((rule as CSSKeyframesRule).cssText);
       } else if (type === "CSSStyleRule") {
         const r = rule as CSSStyleRule;
-        if (r.style && r.style.cssText.includes("url(")) harvestUrlsFromText(r.style.cssText);
+        if (r.style && r.style.cssText.includes("url(")) harvestUrlsFromText(r.style.cssText, base);
         if (r.selectorText && r.style &&
           (isExplicitHeight(r.style.getPropertyValue("height")) ||
             isExplicitHeight(r.style.getPropertyValue("min-height")))) {
@@ -699,17 +726,20 @@ export function collectPage(opts?: { maxNodes?: number } | void): PageSnapshot {
           explicitWidthSelectors.push(r.selectorText);
         }
       } else if (type === "CSSMediaRule" || type === "CSSSupportsRule") {
-        try { readRules((rule as CSSGroupingRule).cssRules); } catch { /* ignore */ }
+        // Nested grouping rules live in the same sheet — keep the base.
+        try { readRules((rule as CSSGroupingRule).cssRules, base); } catch { /* ignore */ }
       } else if (type === "CSSImportRule") {
+        // The imported sheet is a separate file: its rules resolve against ITS url, falling back to
+        // the importing sheet's base only if the imported sheet reports none.
         const imp = rule as CSSImportRule;
-        try { if (imp.styleSheet) readRules(imp.styleSheet.cssRules); } catch { /* cross-origin */ }
+        try { if (imp.styleSheet) readRules(imp.styleSheet.cssRules, sheetBaseHref(imp.styleSheet) ?? base); } catch { /* cross-origin */ }
       }
     }
   };
 
   for (const sheet of Array.from(document.styleSheets)) {
     try {
-      readRules(sheet.cssRules);
+      readRules(sheet.cssRules, sheetBaseHref(sheet));
     } catch {
       // Cross-origin sheet — record its href so the capture layer can fetch the
       // raw text out-of-band and parse font-faces/urls from it.
@@ -746,7 +776,7 @@ export function collectPage(opts?: { maxNodes?: number } | void): PageSnapshot {
     try { sheets.push(...(sr.adoptedStyleSheets || [])); } catch { /* ignore */ }
     try { sheets.push(...Array.from(sr.styleSheets || [])); } catch { /* ignore */ }
     for (const sheet of sheets) {
-      try { readRules(sheet.cssRules); } catch { if ((sheet as CSSStyleSheet).href) cssUrlSet.add(absUrl((sheet as CSSStyleSheet).href!)); }
+      try { readRules(sheet.cssRules, sheetBaseHref(sheet)); } catch { if ((sheet as CSSStyleSheet).href) cssUrlSet.add(absUrl((sheet as CSSStyleSheet).href!)); }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/compiler/src/generate/css.ts b/compiler/src/generate/css.ts
index 185cea1..bf9d8ac 100644
--- a/compiler/src/generate/css.ts
+++ b/compiler/src/generate/css.ts
@@ -2450,7 +2450,16 @@ function declsForViewport(
   // neither structural test detects the authored height. Trust the node's own probe.
   {
     const osz = node.sizingByVp?.[vp];
-    if (!noCollapse && !isLeaf && cs.height && cs.height !== "auto" && osz && osz.hAuto === false && osz.hFill === false) explicitHeight = true;
+    // Never trust this probe on a document-height wrapper. A root landmark (body/html/main) — or
+    // any node whose captured box IS the page's scroll height — probes hAuto:false/hFill:false as
+    // measurement noise (min-h-screen + the %-height re-measure chain at document level), not an
+    // authored height. Baking that px pins the whole page to a fixed height: combined with an
+    // `overflow:hidden` main it hard-clips any content-height drift, and it makes the layout gate's
+    // heightDelta tautologically zero (gate blindness). Such wrappers must keep flowing.
+    const isRootWrapper = tag === "body" || tag === "html" || tag === "main";
+    const isPageHeightBox = !!rootScrollHeight && !!nb && nb.height > 0 &&
+      Math.abs(nb.height - rootScrollHeight) <= rootScrollHeight * 0.02;
+    if (!noCollapse && !isLeaf && !isRootWrapper && !isPageHeightBox && cs.height && cs.height !== "auto" && osz && osz.hAuto === false && osz.hFill === false) explicitHeight = true;
   }
   if (!noCollapse && !isLeaf && cs.height && cs.height !== "auto" && nb) {
     const top = nb.y + (parseFloat(cs.paddingTop || "0") || 0) + (parseFloat(cs.borderTopWidth || "0") || 0);
@@ -3565,7 +3574,24 @@ export function collectNodeRules(ir: IR, assetMap: Map<string, string>, includeN
               continue;
             }
           } else {
-            continue;
+            // Not painted here, not display:none, not ancestor-hidden, and NOT visible at base —
+            // an item that is off-viewport/clipped at EVERY captured width, base included (the
+            // walker marks a box invisible when `bbox.x >= vpW`). A carousel slide 6–12 that lives
+            // off-screen right at 1280 (the canonical base) as well as at 375/768 lands here. It is
+            // the identical load-bearing case as the shownAtBase occupying arm above: a display:block
+            // flex item that still sets its flex track's cross-size, so freezing the base rule's
+            // canonical (desktop) geometry inflates the mobile track. Run the same occupying-box test —
+            // in-flow, unsuppressed, non-zero bbox at THIS width → fall through to the per-viewport
+            // delta so it carries this width's measured geometry. A genuinely suppressed
+            // (opacity:0 / visibility:hidden) or zero-box node keeps the current skip.
+            const bb = node.bboxByVp[b.vp];
+            const suppressed = pf(vpCs.opacity) === 0 || /^(hidden|collapse)$/.test(vpCs.visibility || "");
+            const inFlowHere = (vpCs.position || "static") === "static" || (vpCs.position || "static") === "relative";
+            if (!suppressed && inFlowHere && bb && (bb.width > 0 || bb.height > 0)) {
+              // Occupying, in-flow, off-viewport at every width — fall through to the per-viewport delta.
+            } else {
+              continue;
+            }
           }
         }
       }
diff --git a/compiler/src/infer/fonts.ts b/compiler/src/infer/fonts.ts
index 0271864..c2cfeb6 100644
--- a/compiler/src/infer/fonts.ts
+++ b/compiler/src/infer/fonts.ts
@@ -61,19 +61,14 @@ export function buildFontGraph(fontFaces: FontFace[], assetGraph: AssetGraph, so
     }
   }
 
-  const entries: FontEntry[] = [];
-  const cssBlocks: string[] = [];
-  const seen = new Set<string>();
-
-  for (const ff of fontFaces) {
-    const weight = (ff.weight || "400").trim();
-    const style = (ff.style || "normal").trim();
-    const display = (ff.display || "swap").trim();
-    const key = `${ff.family}|${weight}|${style}|${ff.unicodeRange ?? ""}`;
-    if (seen.has(key)) continue;
-    seen.add(key);
-
-    const srcs = parseSrcUrls(ff.src, sourceUrl);
+  // Resolve one face's src descriptor against the downloaded-asset graph. A face harvested from
+  // CSSOM carries the url of its owning sheet in `baseHref`; its relative src url()s must resolve
+  // against THAT, not the document, or `../media/x` clamps to the wrong path (commonly the SPA
+  // router's HTML shell). Faces parsed out-of-band already have absolute srcs baked in, so
+  // `baseHref` is absent and the document url is a harmless fallback.
+  const order = ["woff2", "woff", "truetype", "opentype", "embedded-opentype"];
+  const resolveFace = (ff: FontFace): { resolved: Array<{ localPath: string; format: string }>; dataUris: string[] } => {
+    const srcs = parseSrcUrls(ff.src, ff.baseHref || sourceUrl);
     const resolved: Array<{ localPath: string; format: string }> = [];
     const dataUris: string[] = [];
     for (const s of srcs) {
@@ -84,10 +79,47 @@ export function buildFontGraph(fontFaces: FontFace[], assetGraph: AssetGraph, so
         resolved.push({ localPath: entry.localPath, format: s.format || FORMAT_BY_EXT[ext] || "woff2" });
       }
     }
-
     // Prefer woff2 > woff > others for ordering.
-    const order = ["woff2", "woff", "truetype", "opentype", "embedded-opentype"];
     resolved.sort((a, b) => order.indexOf(a.format) - order.indexOf(b.format));
+    return { resolved, dataUris };
+  };
+
+  // Deduplicate faces by family|weight|style|unicodeRange. Two sources can supply the same face
+  // with DIFFERENT (correctly- vs wrongly-resolved) src urls — the CSSOM harvest and the css-text
+  // parse both land in `fontFaces`. Keeping the first-inserted face lets a src that resolves to
+  // nothing (a rejected impostor, or a mis-based path) win the slot, so choose validity-aware:
+  // the first face whose src resolves to a downloaded/data-uri source wins; only if NONE in the
+  // group resolves do we fall back to the first-seen face (recorded as unavailable). Ties (more
+  // than one resolving) keep insertion order — determinism preserved.
+  const chosen = new Map<string, { ff: FontFace; res: ReturnType<typeof resolveFace> }>();
+  const orderKeys: string[] = [];
+  for (const ff of fontFaces) {
+    const weight = (ff.weight || "400").trim();
+    const style = (ff.style || "normal").trim();
+    const key = `${ff.family}|${weight}|${style}|${ff.unicodeRange ?? ""}`;
+    const res = resolveFace(ff);
+    const resolves = res.resolved.length > 0 || res.dataUris.length > 0;
+    const prev = chosen.get(key);
+    if (!prev) {
+      chosen.set(key, { ff, res });
+      orderKeys.push(key);
+    } else if (resolves && !(prev.res.resolved.length > 0 || prev.res.dataUris.length > 0)) {
+      // Upgrade: the incumbent resolved to nothing, this candidate resolves — replace it in place
+      // (keeping its original emission position).
+      chosen.set(key, { ff, res });
+    }
+    // Otherwise keep the incumbent (first-resolving wins; ties hold insertion order).
+  }
+
+  const entries: FontEntry[] = [];
+  const cssBlocks: string[] = [];
+
+  for (const key of orderKeys) {
+    const { ff, res } = chosen.get(key)!;
+    const weight = (ff.weight || "400").trim();
+    const style = (ff.style || "normal").trim();
+    const display = (ff.display || "swap").trim();
+    const { resolved, dataUris } = res;
 
     if (resolved.length > 0 || dataUris.length > 0) {
       const srcParts: string[] = [];
diff --git a/compiler/test/css.test.ts b/compiler/test/css.test.ts
index 76c9468..294c97c 100644
--- a/compiler/test/css.test.ts
+++ b/compiler/test/css.test.ts
@@ -269,6 +269,31 @@ describe("generateCss hidden-node banded geometry", () => {
     assert.ok(mobile.includes("visibility:hidden"), `child should carry the hide, got: ${mobile}`);
     assert.ok(!mobile.includes("left:10px"), `ancestor-hidden child must not emit geometry, got: ${mobile}`);
   });
+
+  it("emits per-band geometry for an occupying slide off-viewport at EVERY width, base included", () => {
+    // A carousel slide 6–12: a shrink-0 flex item off-screen RIGHT at every captured width — 375,
+    // the 1280 canonical base, AND 1920 — so it is never ownHidden, never ancestor-hidden, and never
+    // visibleByVp[base]=true (the walker marks `bbox.x >= vpW` invisible). It is NOT suppressed
+    // (no opacity:0 / visibility:hidden) and stays IN FLOW, so it still sets its flex track's
+    // cross-size. Without a band the base's canonical desktop width freezes across every viewport and
+    // inflates the mobile track. The band must carry THIS width's measured geometry.
+    const slide = nodeAt("n2", "div", {
+      375: { cs: { display: "block", position: "static", opacity: "1", width: "220px" }, bbox: { x: 400, y: 0, width: 220, height: 432 }, visible: false },
+      1280: { cs: { display: "block", position: "static", opacity: "1", width: "285px" }, bbox: { x: 1500, y: 0, width: 285, height: 532 }, visible: false },
+      1920: { cs: { display: "block", position: "static", opacity: "1", width: "285px" }, bbox: { x: 2200, y: 0, width: 285, height: 532 }, visible: false },
+    });
+    const track = nodeAt("n1", "div", {
+      375: { cs: { display: "flex", position: "relative" }, bbox: { x: 0, y: 0, width: 375, height: 432 } },
+      1280: { cs: { display: "flex", position: "relative" }, bbox: { x: 0, y: 0, width: 1280, height: 532 } },
+      1920: { cs: { display: "flex", position: "relative" }, bbox: { x: 0, y: 0, width: 1920, height: 532 } },
+    }, [slide]);
+    const root = nodeAt("n0", "body", {}, [track]);
+    const css = generateCss(ir3(root), new Map());
+    assert.ok(baseRule(css, "n2").includes("width:285px"), `base bakes canonical width, got: ${baseRule(css, "n2")}`);
+    const mobile = bandRule(css, /max-width/, "n2");
+    assert.ok(mobile.includes("width:220px"), `mobile band must carry the measured 220px width, got: ${mobile}`);
+    assert.ok(!mobile.includes("display:none"), "an occupying off-viewport slide must stay in layout");
+  });
 });
 
 // Fix 1 — mobile nav chip-strip overlap. A horizontally-scrollable flex strip (overflow-x:auto
@@ -924,6 +949,42 @@ describe("generateCss authored-height kept via own probe (T3)", () => {
   });
 });
 
+// R2 — the own-probe height trust (T3) must NEVER bake a document-height wrapper. A body/html/main
+// landmark, or any node whose captured box IS the page scroll height, probes hAuto:false/hFill:false
+// as document-level re-measure noise (min-h-screen + %-height chain), not an authored height. Baking
+// it pins the page to a fixed height — which, under an overflow:hidden main, hard-clips content drift
+// and blinds the layout gate's heightDelta. Such wrappers must keep flowing (auto height).
+describe("generateCss own-probe height trust never bakes a page-height wrapper (R2)", () => {
+  const explicit = (): RawSizing => ({ wAuto: false, wFill: false, hAuto: false, hFill: false });
+  // xIr sets perViewport.scrollHeight = 800 at every viewport.
+  function pageWrapper(tag: string, h: number) {
+    // A non-leaf wrapper with an in-flow child, whose own probe reads authored (hAuto/hFill false).
+    const child = xNode("n2", "div", Object.fromEntries(XVPS.map((vp) => [vp, { cs: { display: "block", position: "static" }, bbox: { x: 0, y: 0, width: vp, height: h } }])));
+    const wrap = xNode("n1", tag, Object.fromEntries(XVPS.map((vp) => [vp, { cs: { display: "block", position: "static", height: `${h}px` }, bbox: { x: 0, y: 0, width: vp, height: h }, sizing: explicit() }])), [child]);
+    return xNode("n0", "body", Object.fromEntries(XVPS.map((vp) => [vp, { bbox: { x: 0, y: 0, width: vp, height: h } }])), [wrap]);
+  }
+
+  it("does NOT bake a <main> landmark height even when its own probe is authored", () => {
+    const css = generateCss(xIr(pageWrapper("main", 800)), new Map());
+    const all = allRulesX(css, "n1");
+    assert.ok(!/height:800px/.test(all), `main landmark must keep flowing, got: ${all}`);
+  });
+
+  it("does NOT bake a wrapper whose captured height IS the page scroll height (±2%)", () => {
+    // 792 is within 2% of the 800px scrollHeight — a page-height wrapper, not authored content.
+    const css = generateCss(xIr(pageWrapper("div", 792)), new Map());
+    const all = allRulesX(css, "n1");
+    assert.ok(!/height:792px/.test(all), `near-page-height wrapper must keep flowing, got: ${all}`);
+  });
+
+  it("still bakes a genuinely authored height well below the page height", () => {
+    // 300px is far from the 800px scrollHeight — a real authored box (the T3 case) still survives.
+    const css = generateCss(xIr(pageWrapper("div", 300)), new Map());
+    const all = allRulesX(css, "n1");
+    assert.ok(/height:300px/.test(all), `authored sub-page height must still survive, got: ${all}`);
+  });
+});
+
 // C1 (css side) — a computed `grid-template-rows: subgrid` is a STRUCTURAL keyword, not a baked px
 // regime. It must NEVER be dropped by the reflow-mode dropGridRows path (which strips px row tracks).
 describe("collectNodeRules never drops a subgrid rows template (C1)", () => {
diff --git a/compiler/test/fontIntegrity.test.ts b/compiler/test/fontIntegrity.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d48d51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/test/fontIntegrity.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+import { describe, it } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { looksLikeFontFile } from "../src/capture/capture.js";
+import { buildFontGraph } from "../src/infer/fonts.js";
+import type { FontFace } from "../src/capture/walker.js";
+import type { AssetGraph, AssetEntry } from "../src/infer/assets.js";
+
+// --- Magic-byte validator table -------------------------------------------------------------
+
+function head(tag: string, len = 64): Buffer {
+  return Buffer.concat([Buffer.from(tag, "latin1"), Buffer.alloc(Math.max(0, len - tag.length))]);
+}
+
+describe("looksLikeFontFile (font container magic)", () => {
+  it("accepts every real font-container signature", () => {
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(head("wOF2")), true, "woff2");
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(head("wOFF")), true, "woff");
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(head("OTTO")), true, "CFF OpenType (otf)");
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(head("true")), true, "TrueType 'true' sfnt");
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(head("ttcf")), true, "TrueType collection");
+    assert.equal(
+      looksLikeFontFile(Buffer.concat([Buffer.from([0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00]), Buffer.alloc(60)])),
+      true,
+      "TrueType \\x00\\x01\\x00\\x00 sfnt (ttf)",
+    );
+    // EOT: 0x504C ("LP") marker at byte offset 34.
+    const eot = Buffer.alloc(80);
+    eot[34] = 0x4c;
+    eot[35] = 0x50;
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(eot), true, "eot");
+  });
+
+  it("rejects HTML/text impostor bodies (the SPA-router 200 shell)", () => {
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(Buffer.from("<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head></html>")), false);
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(Buffer.from("<!doctype html>")), false);
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(Buffer.from("<html><body>not a font</body></html>")), false);
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(Buffer.from("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>")), false);
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(Buffer.from("just some plain text body")), false);
+  });
+
+  it("rejects truncated/empty buffers", () => {
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(Buffer.alloc(0)), false);
+    assert.equal(looksLikeFontFile(Buffer.from([0x77, 0x4f])), false); // 2 bytes of "wO"
+  });
+});
+
+// --- Validity-aware first-insert preference in buildFontGraph -------------------------------
+
+function fontEntry(sourceUrl: string, localPath: string | null): AssetEntry {
+  return {
+    sourceUrl,
+    type: "font",
+    classification: localPath ? "downloaded" : "skipped",
+    localPath,
+    storedFile: localPath ? localPath.split("/").pop()! : null,
+    bytes: localPath ? 45_000 : 0,
+    reason: localPath ? null : "font_file_unavailable",
+    impact: null,
+    via: [],
+  };
+}
+
+function graphOf(entries: AssetEntry[]): AssetGraph {
+  const byUrl = new Map<string, AssetEntry>();
+  for (const e of entries) byUrl.set(e.sourceUrl, e);
+  return { entries, byUrl };
+}
+
+const DOC = "https://host.example/page";
+// The genuine subset lives under the css file's sibling media dir; only THIS url is downloaded.
+const GOOD_URL = "https://host.example/marketing-static/_next/static/media/good.woff2";
+// The wrongly-based (document-relative) url that the SPA router answered with HTML and that was
+// therefore rejected at store time — it never becomes a downloaded asset.
+const BAD_URL = "https://host.example/media/impostor.woff2";
+
+describe("buildFontGraph validity-aware preference (first-insert race)", () => {
+  it("prefers the face whose src resolves to a downloaded file even when it was inserted SECOND", () => {
+    const graph = graphOf([fontEntry(GOOD_URL, "/assets/cloned/fonts/good.woff2")]);
+    // Insertion order mirrors the real race: the mis-based CSSOM face lands first, the correctly
+    // based css-text face second. Only the good url is a downloaded asset.
+    const faces: FontFace[] = [
+      { family: "Gothic", weight: "400", style: "normal", src: `url("${BAD_URL}") format("woff2")` },
+      { family: "Gothic", weight: "400", style: "normal", src: `url("${GOOD_URL}") format("woff2")` },
+    ];
+    const { entries, css } = buildFontGraph(faces, graph, DOC);
+    const gothic = entries.filter((e) => e.family === "Gothic");
+    assert.equal(gothic.length, 1, "deduped to a single face");
+    assert.equal(gothic[0]!.status, "resolved");
+    assert.deepEqual(gothic[0]!.localPaths, ["/assets/cloned/fonts/good.woff2"]);
+    assert.match(css, /good\.woff2/);
+    assert.doesNotMatch(css, /impostor/);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the FIRST face when neither resolves (fallback, ties hold order)", () => {
+    const graph = graphOf([]); // nothing downloaded
+    const faces: FontFace[] = [
+      { family: "Gothic", weight: "400", style: "normal", src: `url("${BAD_URL}") format("woff2")` },
+      { family: "Gothic", weight: "400", style: "normal", src: `url("${GOOD_URL}") format("woff2")` },
+    ];
+    const { entries } = buildFontGraph(faces, graph, DOC);
+    const gothic = entries.filter((e) => e.family === "Gothic");
+    assert.equal(gothic.length, 1);
+    assert.equal(gothic[0]!.status, "fallback");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the FIRST resolving face when BOTH resolve (ties hold insertion order)", () => {
+    const alt = "https://host.example/marketing-static/_next/static/media/alt.woff2";
+    const graph = graphOf([
+      fontEntry(GOOD_URL, "/assets/cloned/fonts/good.woff2"),
+      fontEntry(alt, "/assets/cloned/fonts/alt.woff2"),
+    ]);
+    const faces: FontFace[] = [
+      { family: "Gothic", weight: "400", style: "normal", src: `url("${GOOD_URL}") format("woff2")` },
+      { family: "Gothic", weight: "400", style: "normal", src: `url("${alt}") format("woff2")` },
+    ];
+    const { entries } = buildFontGraph(faces, graph, DOC);
+    const gothic = entries.filter((e) => e.family === "Gothic");
+    assert.equal(gothic.length, 1);
+    assert.deepEqual(gothic[0]!.localPaths, ["/assets/cloned/fonts/good.woff2"], "first resolving wins");
+  });
+});
+
+// --- baseHref-driven relative resolution in buildFontGraph ----------------------------------
+
+describe("buildFontGraph resolves a face's relative src against its owning sheet (baseHref)", () => {
+  it("uses baseHref, not the document url, so ../media climbs from the css file", () => {
+    // The sheet lives at /marketing-static/_next/static/css/sheet.css; `../media/x` from THERE is
+    // /marketing-static/_next/static/media/x.woff2, which is what actually downloaded. Resolved
+    // against the document (/page) it would clamp to /marketing-static/_next/static/media only if
+    // the css path were the base — the point of baseHref.
+    const sheetUrl = "https://host.example/marketing-static/_next/static/css/sheet.css";
+    const resolved = "https://host.example/marketing-static/_next/static/media/x.woff2";
+    const graph = graphOf([fontEntry(resolved, "/assets/cloned/fonts/x.woff2")]);
+    const faces: FontFace[] = [
+      { family: "Gothic", weight: "400", style: "normal", src: 'url("../media/x.woff2") format("woff2")', baseHref: sheetUrl },
+    ];
+    const { entries } = buildFontGraph(faces, graph, DOC);
+    assert.equal(entries[0]!.status, "resolved");
+    assert.deepEqual(entries[0]!.localPaths, ["/assets/cloned/fonts/x.woff2"]);
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to the document url when baseHref is absent (inline <style> / out-of-band parse)", () => {
+    // An out-of-band parse bakes the absolute url into src, so document fallback is harmless.
+    const abs = "https://host.example/fonts/y.woff2";
+    const graph = graphOf([fontEntry(abs, "/assets/cloned/fonts/y.woff2")]);
+    const faces: FontFace[] = [
+      { family: "Mono", weight: "400", style: "normal", src: `url("${abs}") format("woff2")` },
+    ];
+    const { entries } = buildFontGraph(faces, graph, DOC);
+    assert.equal(entries[0]!.status, "resolved");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/compiler/test/fontUrlResolution.test.ts b/compiler/test/fontUrlResolution.test.ts
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/compiler/test/fontUrlResolution.test.ts
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+import { describe, it, before, after } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { createServer, type Server } from "node:http";
+import { chromium, type Browser, type Page } from "playwright";
+import { collectPage, type PageSnapshot } from "../src/capture/walker.js";
+
+// A relative url() inside a stylesheet must resolve against THAT sheet's url, not the document.
+// These tests serve real CSS files at a NESTED path so `../media/x` climbs differently depending
+// on the base: against the css file it lands under the nested dir, against the page it clamps to
+// the site root. We assert the harvested url (cssUrls) and the face's baseHref carry the sheet
+// base — the exact fix for the "HTML saved as woff2" font-materialization cluster.
+
+// The nested layout mirrors a real bundler output:
+//   /page                                      (document)
+//   /marketing-static/_next/static/css/x.css   (external sheet)
+//   /marketing-static/_next/static/media/f.woff2  ← where ../media/f.woff2 SHOULD resolve
+const CSS_PATH = "/marketing-static/_next/static/css/x.css";
+const EXPECTED_MEDIA = "/marketing-static/_next/static/media/f.woff2";
+// The WRONG (document-relative) resolution the old code produced:
+const WRONG_MEDIA = "/media/f.woff2";
+
+function serveText(body: string, type: string, res: import("node:http").ServerResponse): void {
+  res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": type });
+  res.end(body);
+}
+
+describe("font url() resolution against the owning stylesheet", () => {
+  let browser: Browser;
+  let page: Page;
+  let server: Server;
+  let origin = "";
+
+  before(async () => {
+    server = createServer((req, res) => {
+      const url = (req.url || "/").split("?")[0];
+      if (url === "/page") {
+        return serveText(
+          `<!doctype html><html><head><link rel="stylesheet" href="${CSS_PATH}"></head><body><p>hi</p></body></html>`,
+          "text/html",
+          res,
+        );
+      }
+      if (url === "/import-host") {
+        // A same-origin sheet that @imports the nested sheet; the imported sheet's own url must be
+        // the base for its faces, not the host sheet or the page.
+        return serveText(
+          `<!doctype html><html><head><link rel="stylesheet" href="/top.css"></head><body><p>hi</p></body></html>`,
+          "text/html",
+          res,
+        );
+      }
+      if (url === "/top.css") {
+        return serveText(`@import url("${CSS_PATH}");`, "text/css", res);
+      }
+      if (url === CSS_PATH) {
+        return serveText(
+          `@font-face{font-family:"Gothic";font-style:normal;font-weight:400;` +
+            `src:url("../media/f.woff2") format("woff2");}` +
+            `.hero{background:url("../media/bg.png")}`,
+          "text/css",
+          res,
+        );
+      }
+      res.writeHead(404).end();
+    });
+    await new Promise<void>((r) => server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", r));
+    const addr = server.address();
+    if (addr && typeof addr === "object") origin = `http://127.0.0.1:${addr.port}`;
+    browser = await chromium.launch();
+    page = await browser.newPage();
+  });
+
+  after(async () => {
+    await browser.close();
+    await new Promise<void>((r) => server.close(() => r()));
+  });
+
+  const snap = async (path: string): Promise<PageSnapshot> => {
+    await page.goto(`${origin}${path}`, { waitUntil: "networkidle" });
+    await page.evaluate("globalThis.__name = globalThis.__name || ((fn) => fn);");
+    return page.evaluate(collectPage) as Promise<PageSnapshot>;
+  };
+
+  it("resolves a font-face src against the external sheet's url, not the document", async () => {
+    const s = await snap("/page");
+    assert.ok(
+      s.cssUrls.includes(`${origin}${EXPECTED_MEDIA}`),
+      `expected sheet-relative ${EXPECTED_MEDIA} in cssUrls, got ${JSON.stringify(s.cssUrls)}`,
+    );
+    assert.ok(
+      !s.cssUrls.includes(`${origin}${WRONG_MEDIA}`),
+      "must NOT produce the document-relative (wrong) resolution",
+    );
+    const face = s.fontFaces.find((f) => f.family === "Gothic");
+    assert.ok(face, "font face captured");
+    assert.equal(face!.baseHref, `${origin}${CSS_PATH}`, "face carries its owning sheet's base");
+  });
+
+  it("resolves ordinary style-rule url() against the sheet too", async () => {
+    const s = await snap("/page");
+    assert.ok(
+      s.cssUrls.includes(`${origin}/marketing-static/_next/static/media/bg.png`),
+      `expected sheet-relative bg.png, got ${JSON.stringify(s.cssUrls)}`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("resolves an @import-nested sheet's face against the IMPORTED sheet's url", async () => {
+    const s = await snap("/import-host");
+    // top.css @imports x.css; the face lives in x.css, so ../media resolves from x.css's dir.
+    assert.ok(
+      s.cssUrls.includes(`${origin}${EXPECTED_MEDIA}`),
+      `@import base must be the imported sheet, got ${JSON.stringify(s.cssUrls)}`,
+    );
+    const face = s.fontFaces.find((f) => f.family === "Gothic");
+    assert.equal(face?.baseHref, `${origin}${CSS_PATH}`);
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to the document base for an inline <style> (no sheet href)", async () => {
+    await page.goto(`${origin}/page`, { waitUntil: "networkidle" });
+    await page.evaluate("globalThis.__name = globalThis.__name || ((fn) => fn);");
+    await page.evaluate(() => {
+      const st = document.createElement("style");
+      st.textContent =
+        '@font-face{font-family:"Inline";src:url("./inline/g.woff2") format("woff2")}';
+      document.head.appendChild(st);
+    });
+    const s = (await page.evaluate(collectPage)) as PageSnapshot;
+    // document base is /page → ./inline/g.woff2 resolves to /inline/g.woff2 (page-relative).
+    assert.ok(
+      s.cssUrls.includes(`${origin}/inline/g.woff2`),
+      `inline <style> resolves against the document, got ${JSON.stringify(s.cssUrls)}`,
+    );
+    const face = s.fontFaces.find((f) => f.family === "Inline");
+    assert.equal(face?.baseHref, undefined, "inline face has no sheet href");
+  });
+});