1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/prototypes/panel-widget-gallery.html b/docs/prototypes/panel-widget-gallery.html
index 455b0ff..790a2da 100644
--- a/docs/prototypes/panel-widget-gallery.html
+++ b/docs/prototypes/panel-widget-gallery.html
@@ -684,12 +684,12 @@ const INFO={
   origin:'PDP-11/70 and IMSAI front panels.',difficulty:'Intuitive to watch, expert to read.',
   prefer:'A spinner says busy; blinkenlights say HOW busy and with what rhythm.',
   period:'1965-80 minicomputer era; the icon of computing at work.'},
-'R57':{input:'Click keys to type; DEL takes back one character, CLR wipes the lot, ENT commits. Click-only, so it ports to Emacs unchanged.',
+'R57':{input:'Click keys to type, or click the plate and type on the keyboard (letters, digits, space, Backspace, Enter). DEL takes back one character, CLR wipes the lot, ENT commits.',
   solves:'Free alphanumeric text on a panel that has no keyboard — the one job the rest of the kit cannot do.',
   use:'Specialty. Shines where a panel must accept a string it could not know in advance: a passphrase, an SSID, a callsign, a label.',
-  limits:'Slow by design — a 20-character passphrase is 20 clicks. Any real keyboard beats it for volume; this is for panels that have none.',
+  limits:'Clicking is slow by design: a 20-character passphrase is 20 clicks, which is why the plate also takes the keyboard when focused. It is for panels with no keyboard of their own, and a real one still beats it for volume.',
   origin:'Fleet, kiosk and access-control keypads — a membrane plate for the colour-coded function keys, a stainless one for the letters-left layout and the backspace.',
-  difficulty:'Intuitive to use, tedious past a few words.',
+  difficulty:'Intuitive to use. Clicking is tedious past a few words, which is what the keyboard is for.',
   prefer:'Text is genuinely unbounded. R16 is the digits-only sibling and is faster where the alphabet is not needed.',
   ref:'../../working/retro-stereo-widgets/references/2026-07-16-abc-keypad-membrane-color.png'},
 'R56':{input:'Drag the left half for temperature, the right for humidity. Drag-only, two surfaces.',
@@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ card(C,'R51','Voice-loop keyset',
   '<b>attention management, not selection.</b> Each loop is independent: click to monitor (green bar, flickering with activity), again to talk (amber, exclusive — one voice out), again to drop. Flight controllers ran a dozen of these at once. After a mission-control comm keyset.');
 card(C,'R57','ABC entry keypad',
   (st,rd)=>GW.abcKeypad(st,{onChange:(v,t)=>rd(t)}),
-  '<b>letters on a faceplate.</b> A-Z laid out alphabetically, not QWERTY — the industrial convention wherever the operator is not assumed to touch-type. Type into the window; DEL takes back one character, CLR wipes the lot, ENT commits. R16 enters digits; this is its alphanumeric sibling, and the only card in the kit that takes free text. After fleet and kiosk keypads: the membrane plate\'s colour-coded CLR / ENT, the stainless plate\'s letters-left arrangement and its backspace. Its CANCEL is dropped — that plate is a whole terminal with a transaction to abandon, where this is one control in a panel that owns its own dismiss.');
+  '<b>letters on a faceplate.</b> A-Z laid out alphabetically, not QWERTY — the industrial convention wherever the operator is not assumed to touch-type. Click the keys, or click the plate and type: it takes the keyboard once focused, and every key routes through the same handle a click does. DEL takes back one character, CLR wipes the lot, ENT commits. R16 enters digits; this is its alphanumeric sibling, and the only card in the kit that takes free text. After fleet and kiosk keypads: the membrane plate\'s colour-coded CLR / ENT, the stainless plate\'s letters-left arrangement and its backspace. Its CANCEL is dropped — that plate is a whole terminal with a transaction to abandon, where this is one control in a panel that owns its own dismiss.');
 
 /* ============ METERS & GAUGES ============ */
 const M=$('meters');
@@ -1653,6 +1653,9 @@ screenChips('R17',$('card-R17').gw.el,['green','amber','red','blue','vfd'],'gree
 screenChips('R19',$('card-R19').gw.el,['white','green','amber','blue','vfd'],'white');
 screenChips('R31',$('card-R31').gw.el,['amber','green','red','blue','vfd'],'amber');
 screenChips('N11',$('card-N11').gw.el,['green','amber','red','blue','vfd'],'green');
+/* all six, where its siblings each carry five: a passphrase window has no reason
+   to prefer one phosphor, so it offers the whole set including the marquee cyan */
+screenChips('R57',$('card-R57').gw.el,['amber','green','red','blue','vfd','white'],'amber');
 BOOST.forEach(no=>{const rd=document.getElementById('rd-'+no);
   if(rd)rd.closest('.card').querySelector('.stagew').classList.add('boost');});