diff --git a/static/css/layout.css b/static/css/layout.css
index 55b3814..592a40a 100644
--- a/static/css/layout.css
+++ b/static/css/layout.css
@@ -164,22 +164,16 @@ body > footer {
     text-align: right;
 }
 
-.footer-build {
+.footer-build-link {
     font-size: 0.72rem;
     color: var(--text-faint);
     font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
-}
-
-.footer-build-link {
-    margin-left: 0.3em;
-    font-size: 0.72rem;
-    color: var(--text-faint);
     text-decoration: none;
-    opacity: 0.6;
 }
 
 .footer-build-link:hover {
-    opacity: 1;
+    text-decoration: underline;
+    text-underline-offset: 2px;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/templates/partials/footer.html b/templates/partials/footer.html
index e18cc74..f86381a 100644
--- a/templates/partials/footer.html
+++ b/templates/partials/footer.html
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
         <span class="footer-license">CC BY-SA-NC 4.0 · <a href="https://github.com/levineuwirth/levineuwirth.org">MIT</a> · <a href="/memento-mori.html" class="footer-mm">MM</a></span>
     </div>
     <div class="footer-right">
-        <span class="footer-build">build $build-time$</span><a href="/build/" class="footer-build-link" aria-label="Build telemetry">→</a>
+        <a href="/build/" class="footer-build-link" aria-label="Build telemetry">build</a> $build-time$
         · <a href="$url$.sig" class="footer-sig-link" aria-label="PGP signature for this page" title="Ed25519 signing subkey C9A42A6F AD444FBE 566FD738 531BDC1C C2707066 · public key at /gpg/pubkey.asc">sig</a>
     </div>
 </footer>