diff --git a/backend/Cargo.lock b/backend/Cargo.lock
index 332ac16..5a0b785 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.lock
+++ b/backend/Cargo.lock
@@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ checksum = "c41e0c4fef86961ac6d6f8a82609f55f31b05e4fce149ac5710e439df7619ba4"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "mangalord"
-version = "0.88.0"
+version = "0.88.1"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "argon2",
diff --git a/backend/Cargo.toml b/backend/Cargo.toml
index 88ade25..20507fc 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "mangalord"
-version = "0.88.0"
+version = "0.88.1"
 edition = "2021"
 default-run = "mangalord"
 
diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index 18e80b3..bac57a1 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mangalord-frontend",
-  "version": "0.88.0",
+  "version": "0.88.1",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/Chip.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/Chip.svelte
index ad7928e..6ae3243 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/Chip.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/Chip.svelte
@@ -125,4 +125,24 @@
         background: var(--danger-soft-bg);
         color: var(--danger);
     }
+
+    /* On touch the 16px glyph is far below the tap floor. Rather than grow
+       the chip (which would inflate every tag row), overlay an invisible,
+       centered hit area sized to --tap-min — the glyph stays compact while
+       the tappable region reaches a comfortable size. */
+    @media (max-width: 640px) {
+        .chip-remove {
+            position: relative;
+        }
+
+        .chip-remove::before {
+            content: '';
+            position: absolute;
+            top: 50%;
+            left: 50%;
+            transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
+            min-width: var(--tap-min);
+            min-height: var(--tap-min);
+        }
+    }
 </style>
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/SegmentedControl.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/SegmentedControl.svelte
index a75571d..926d53b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/SegmentedControl.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/SegmentedControl.svelte
@@ -126,4 +126,13 @@
         color: var(--text);
         box-shadow: var(--shadow-sm);
     }
+
+    /* This control doubles as the primary sort toggle (catalog) and the
+       Library tab switcher on mobile, so its options must meet the touch
+       floor on phones. */
+    @media (max-width: 640px) {
+        .seg {
+            min-height: var(--tap-min);
+        }
+    }
 </style>
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/styles/tokens.css b/frontend/src/lib/styles/tokens.css
index ec36f0a..bd336b7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/styles/tokens.css
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/styles/tokens.css
@@ -78,6 +78,12 @@
     --bp-md: 768px;
     --bp-lg: 1024px;
 
+    /* Comfortable touch-target floor for primary controls on phones.
+       Controls compact to their desktop height by default and grow to
+       this minimum under the 640px breakpoint. See touch-targets.test.ts
+       for the shared-primitive contract. */
+    --tap-min: 44px;
+
     /* Safe-area helpers for notched / home-indicator devices. Resolve
        to 0 on devices without insets, so they're safe everywhere as
        long as <meta name="viewport" content="…, viewport-fit=cover">
@@ -293,6 +299,23 @@ img {
     body {
         overflow-x: hidden;
     }
+
+    /* Touch-target floor on phones. Form controls and submit buttons keep
+       their compact 36px desktop height above the breakpoint but grow to a
+       comfortable tap size here. `min-height` (not `height`) so the
+       already-tall textarea is unaffected. Scoped to text fields, selects,
+       and `type=submit` deliberately — bare `button` would also catch dense
+       icon buttons (chip remove, segmented options, reader chrome) that meet
+       the floor through their own hit-area rules instead. */
+    input[type='text'],
+    input[type='search'],
+    input[type='password'],
+    input[type='number'],
+    input[type='email'],
+    select,
+    button[type='submit'] {
+        min-height: var(--tap-min);
+    }
 }
 
 @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/styles/touch-targets.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/styles/touch-targets.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4e4520
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/styles/touch-targets.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { resolve } from 'node:path';
+
+// Touch-target contract for the SHARED interactive primitives.
+//
+// WCAG / platform HIG put the comfortable touch floor at ~44px. jsdom can't
+// evaluate @media queries or compute layout, so we can't assert rendered box
+// sizes in a unit test. Instead we pin the CSS *contract*: each shared control
+// grows to the --tap-min floor inside the mobile breakpoint. This guards
+// against a future edit silently dropping the mobile bump (the regression the
+// desktop/mobile consistency review surfaced).
+//
+// Scope is deliberately the genuinely-shared primitives — the global
+// input/button rules in tokens.css, SegmentedControl, and Chip. The per-route
+// `.icon-btn` is copy-pasted across seven files and is a separate refactor.
+
+// Resolved from the vitest cwd (the frontend root) — jsdom doesn't hand us a
+// file:// import.meta.url to anchor on.
+const read = (rel: string) => readFileSync(resolve(process.cwd(), rel), 'utf8');
+
+const TOKENS = read('src/lib/styles/tokens.css');
+const SEGMENTED = read('src/lib/components/SegmentedControl.svelte');
+const CHIP = read('src/lib/components/Chip.svelte');
+
+// Pull the text inside every `@media (max-width: 640px) { ... }` block,
+// brace-balanced so nested rules are captured. Returns the concatenation so a
+// `.includes` check only matches declarations that live under the mobile query.
+function mobileBlocks(css: string): string {
+    const marker = '@media (max-width: 640px)';
+    let out = '';
+    let from = 0;
+    for (;;) {
+        const start = css.indexOf(marker, from);
+        if (start === -1) break;
+        const open = css.indexOf('{', start);
+        if (open === -1) break;
+        let depth = 0;
+        let i = open;
+        for (; i < css.length; i++) {
+            if (css[i] === '{') depth++;
+            else if (css[i] === '}') {
+                depth--;
+                if (depth === 0) break;
+            }
+        }
+        out += css.slice(open + 1, i) + '\n';
+        from = i + 1;
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+
+// Collapse whitespace so `min-height:\n   var(--tap-min)` matches regardless of
+// the formatter's line breaks.
+const squish = (s: string) => s.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
+
+describe('shared touch-target contract', () => {
+    it('defines a --tap-min token of 44px', () => {
+        expect(squish(TOKENS)).toMatch(/--tap-min:\s*44px/);
+    });
+
+    it('grows global inputs and buttons to the touch floor on mobile', () => {
+        const mobile = squish(mobileBlocks(TOKENS));
+        // input/select group and button rule both reach --tap-min under 640px.
+        expect(mobile).toMatch(/input[^}]*min-height:\s*var\(--tap-min\)/);
+        expect(mobile).toMatch(/button[^{]*\{[^}]*min-height:\s*var\(--tap-min\)/);
+    });
+
+    it('grows SegmentedControl options to the touch floor on mobile', () => {
+        const mobile = squish(mobileBlocks(SEGMENTED));
+        expect(mobile).toMatch(/\.seg[^}]*min-height:\s*var\(--tap-min\)/);
+    });
+
+    it("expands the chip remove button's hit area to the touch floor on mobile", () => {
+        const mobile = squish(mobileBlocks(CHIP));
+        // The visible glyph stays small; the tappable area reaches --tap-min.
+        expect(mobile).toMatch(/\.chip-remove[^}]*min-(height|block-size):\s*var\(--tap-min\)/);
+    });
+});