diff --git a/packages/access-api/src/utils/html.js b/packages/access-api/src/utils/html.js
index c6762cd3e..45c63c5f3 100644
--- a/packages/access-api/src/utils/html.js
+++ b/packages/access-api/src/utils/html.js
@@ -39,16 +39,9 @@ export function buildDocument(body) {
       margin: 0 40px;
       padding: 40px 0;
     }
-    .fcenter {
-      display: flex;
-      align-items: center;
-      flex-direction: column;
-      justify-content: center;
-    }
     .mcenter {
       margin: 0 auto;
     }
-
     .box {
       max-width: 640px;
       background-color: var(--background-alt);
@@ -138,14 +131,18 @@ export const PendingValidateEmail = ({ autoApprove }) => (
  * @param {string} [param0.qrcode]
  */
 export const ValidateEmail = ({ ucan, qrcode, email, audience }) => (
-  <div class="fcenter">
-    <img
-      src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11778450/227402733-b2e4b175-b1a6-4a49-92ff-9ac4e247a695.png"
-      height="100"
-    />
-    <h1>Email Validated</h1>
-    <p>{email} was confirmed. You may close this window.</p>
-    <div class="box">
+  <div style={{ maxWidth: '640px', paddingTop: '50px', margin: '0 auto' }}>
+    <header style={{ textAlign: 'center' }}>
+      <img
+        src="https://bafybeib7zsc7ppyfuby72dz4cpjonql7zt3vetf3cu7rios7hovlgaoug4.ipfs.w3s.link/w3up-logo.png"
+        style={{ height: '80px', display: 'inline-block' }}
+      />
+      <h1 style={{ paddingTop: '20px' }}>Email Validated</h1>
+      <p style={{ paddingBottom: '30px', color: 'white' }}>
+        {email} was confirmed. You may close this window.
+      </p>
+    </header>
+    <div class="box" style={{ fontSize: '14px' }}>
       <p>
         If you have an existing non-w3up beta account with NFT.Storage or
         web3.storage and register for the w3up beta version of the same product
@@ -162,16 +159,18 @@ export const ValidateEmail = ({ ucan, qrcode, email, audience }) => (
         <a href="https://console.nft.storage/terms">NFT.Storage ToS</a>).
       </p>
     </div>
-    <details style={{ maxWidth: '80vw', overflow: 'overlay' }}>
+    <details
+      style={{ maxWidth: '640px', overflow: 'overlay', textDecoration: 'none' }}
+    >
       {' '}
-      <summary>More details</summary>
-      <h5>Validation requested by:</h5>
-      <p>
+      <summary style={{ fontSize: '14px' }}>Auth details</summary>
+      <h5 style={{ marginBottom: 0 }}>Validation requested by</h5>
+      <pre>
         <code>{audience}</code>
-      </p>
+      </pre>
       {qrcode && (
         <>
-          <h5>QR Code:</h5>
+          <h5>QR Code</h5>
           <div
             // eslint-disable-next-line react/no-danger
             dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
@@ -184,7 +183,7 @@ export const ValidateEmail = ({ ucan, qrcode, email, audience }) => (
           />
         </>
       )}
-      <h5>UCAN:</h5>
+      <h5 style={{ marginBottom: 0, paddingTop: '8px' }}>UCAN</h5>
       <pre>
         <code>{ucan}</code>
       </pre>
diff --git a/packages/access-api/test/snapshots/.gitignore b/packages/access-api/test/snapshots/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0b84df0f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/access-api/test/snapshots/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.html
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/access-api/test/snapshots/README.md b/packages/access-api/test/snapshots/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..575721268
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/access-api/test/snapshots/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+## snapshots
+
+This is for low-fi html tweaking. Run the validation-email.test.js and it will write the latest html for that page here, so you can tweak it.
+
+```sh
+# writes ./validation-email.html 
+$ pnpm test test/validate-email.test.js
+
+# peep it. tweak it.
+$ open test/snapshots/validate-email.html
+```
+
+The html will change on every run, as we include ucan info.
+
+Full snapshot testing is not considered here as it is dull.
+
+A storybook for this project would be decent tho.
diff --git a/packages/access-api/test/validate-email.test.js b/packages/access-api/test/validate-email.test.js
index 0d98c2a02..066bd81bd 100644
--- a/packages/access-api/test/validate-email.test.js
+++ b/packages/access-api/test/validate-email.test.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { Delegation } from '@ucanto/core'
 import { Access } from '@web3-storage/capabilities'
 import { delegationToString } from '@web3-storage/access/encoding'
 import { getRandomValues } from 'crypto'
+import { writeFileSync } from 'fs'
 
 describe('validate-email', () => {
   it('can POST /validate-email?mode=authorize', async () => {
@@ -44,5 +45,7 @@ describe('validate-email', () => {
       method: 'post',
     })
     assert.deepEqual(response.status, 200)
+    const relPath = new URL('snapshots/validate-email.html', import.meta.url)
+    writeFileSync(relPath, await response.text())
   })
 })