diff --git a/components/artifacts/visual-card.tsx b/components/artifacts/visual-card.tsx
index 4ec956a..efe7ab8 100644
--- a/components/artifacts/visual-card.tsx
+++ b/components/artifacts/visual-card.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import { useContext, useState } from "react";
 import { ChatActionsContext } from "@/components/chat";
-import { DownloadIcon, MaximizeIcon } from "lucide-react";
+import { ContrastIcon, DownloadIcon, MaximizeIcon } from "lucide-react";
 import { Toggle } from "@/components/settings/controls";
 import { useSessionMermaid } from "@/components/session-overlay";
 import { downloadFile } from "@/components/artifacts/download";
@@ -99,11 +99,47 @@ export function VisualOutputCard({
 		);
 	}
 	return (
-		<div className="rounded-xl border bg-card p-4 text-card-foreground" data-testid="visual-card">
-			<div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
+		/* NO CARD CHROME (owner round, 2026-10-07): the figure is document
+		   material — no border, no padding box. Image first, then the CAPTION
+		   ROW below: "Figure" left, the controls right, both edges following
+		   the IMAGE's own width (the wrapper carries the natural-sizing law,
+		   so the row hugs a centered narrow figure, not the column). */
+		<div
+			className={
+				natural !== null
+					? "my-4 mx-auto w-fit max-w-full"
+					: "my-4 w-full"
+			}
+			data-testid="visual-card"
+		>
+			{/* Natural sizing (owner, 2026-10-07): a declared-width svg sits at
+			   ITS size; max-w-full still shrinks oversized ones to fit. No
+			   declared size (viewBox-only, %-width) keeps the full-width law.
+			   The invert filter rides the bg-white holder, so the backing flips
+			   white→black together with the strokes; transparent areas ARE the
+			   backing. */}
+			<div
+				className={
+					natural !== null
+						? "w-fit max-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-lg bg-white [&_svg]:h-auto [&_svg]:max-w-full"
+						: "w-full overflow-hidden rounded-lg bg-white [&_svg]:h-auto [&_svg]:w-full"
+				}
+				style={{ filter: inverted ? "invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg)" : undefined }}
+				dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: sanitizeSvg(result.svg) }}
+				data-testid="visual-svg"
+			/>
+			<div className="mt-2 flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
 				<div className="text-xs font-medium uppercase tracking-wide text-muted-foreground">Figure</div>
 				<div className="flex items-center gap-1.5">
-					<Toggle checked={inverted} onChange={toggleInverted} label="Invert figure brightness" />
+					{/* The invert affordance (owner round, 2026-10-07): the disc IS
+					    the half-filled contrast circle; the tooltip names it. */}
+					<Toggle
+						checked={inverted}
+						onChange={toggleInverted}
+						label="Invert figure brightness"
+						title="Invert colors"
+						discIcon={<ContrastIcon className="size-3" />}
+					/>
 					<button
 						type="button"
 						aria-label="Download figure as SVG"
@@ -128,23 +164,6 @@ export function VisualOutputCard({
 					)}
 				</div>
 			</div>
-			{/* Natural sizing (owner, 2026-10-07): a declared-width svg sits at
-			   ITS size — the white figure area hugs it and centers (mx-auto),
-			   max-w-full still shrinks oversized ones to fit the card. No
-			   declared size (viewBox-only, %-width) keeps the old full-width
-			   law. The invert filter rides the bg-white holder, so the backing
-			   flips white→black together with the strokes; transparent areas
-			   ARE the backing. */}
-			<div
-				className={
-					natural !== null
-						? "mx-auto mt-2 w-fit max-w-full overflow-hidden rounded-lg bg-white [&_svg]:h-auto [&_svg]:max-w-full"
-						: "mt-2 w-full overflow-hidden rounded-lg bg-white [&_svg]:h-auto [&_svg]:w-full"
-				}
-				style={{ filter: inverted ? "invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg)" : undefined }}
-				dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: sanitizeSvg(result.svg) }}
-				data-testid="visual-svg"
-			/>
 		</div>
 	);
 }
diff --git a/components/settings/controls.tsx b/components/settings/controls.tsx
index 13199fc..c7ee2f6 100644
--- a/components/settings/controls.tsx
+++ b/components/settings/controls.tsx
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  * control together) and the control itself locks — the row owns the dim.
  */
 
-import { useState } from "react";
+import { useState, type ReactNode } from "react";
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
 
 /** A section block: pronounced mono heading + content. */
@@ -87,12 +87,20 @@ export function Toggle({
 	disabled,
 	onChange,
 	label,
+	discIcon,
+	title,
 }: {
 	checked: boolean;
 	disabled?: boolean;
 	onChange: (next: boolean) => void;
 	/** Accessible name for the switch role. */
 	label: string;
+	/** Optional icon disc (owner round, 2026-10-07): the figure cards' invert
+	 *  toggle renders the half-filled contrast circle AS the disc — the icon
+	 *  carries the meaning; plain toggles keep the plain disc. */
+	discIcon?: ReactNode;
+	/** Optional native tooltip on the switch. */
+	title?: string;
 }) {
 	return (
 		<button
@@ -100,6 +108,7 @@ export function Toggle({
 			role="switch"
 			aria-checked={checked}
 			aria-label={label}
+			{...(title ? { title } : {})}
 			disabled={disabled}
 			data-testid={`toggle-${label.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, "-")}`}
 			onClick={() => onChange(!checked)}
@@ -111,14 +120,27 @@ export function Toggle({
 				disabled && "cursor-not-allowed",
 			)}
 		>
-			<span
-				className={cn(
-					"absolute left-0 top-0.5 size-3 rounded-full transition-transform",
-					// 2px inset from each inner edge, both states (owner round: the on
-					// disc used to touch the pill's right edge).
-					checked ? "translate-x-4 bg-foreground" : "translate-x-0.5 bg-muted-foreground",
-				)}
-			/>
+			{discIcon ? (
+				// The icon IS the disc: same size, same slide, same state colors —
+				// only the knob's face changes (the invert affordance).
+				<span
+					className={cn(
+						"absolute left-0 top-0.5 flex size-3 items-center justify-center rounded-full transition-transform",
+						checked ? "translate-x-4 text-foreground" : "translate-x-0.5 text-muted-foreground",
+					)}
+				>
+					{discIcon}
+				</span>
+			) : (
+				<span
+					className={cn(
+						"absolute left-0 top-0.5 size-3 rounded-full transition-transform",
+						// 2px inset from each inner edge, both states (owner round: the on
+						// disc used to touch the pill's right edge).
+						checked ? "translate-x-4 bg-foreground" : "translate-x-0.5 bg-muted-foreground",
+					)}
+				/>
+			)}
 		</button>
 	);
 }
diff --git a/tests/demos.test.tsx b/tests/demos.test.tsx
index 990814f..1f14c9e 100644
--- a/tests/demos.test.tsx
+++ b/tests/demos.test.tsx
@@ -505,6 +505,23 @@ describe("artifact chrome — scrollbar, invert toggles, downloads (release poli
 		assert.ok(!html.includes("hue-rotate"), "inversion OFF by default");
 	});
 
+	it("figure card: NO card chrome, image first, caption row BELOW (owner round, 2026-10-07)", () => {
+		const svg = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="200" height="100"><circle cx="50" cy="50" r="20"/></svg>';
+		const html = renderToStaticMarkup(<VisualOutputCard output={{ svg }} />);
+		// Document material: the outer box carries no card styling.
+		const rootAt = html.indexOf('data-testid="visual-card"');
+		const root = html.slice(rootAt - 200, rootAt);
+		assert.ok(!root.includes("rounded-xl border"), "no card container");
+		// Image BEFORE the caption row; the caption label and the controls follow it.
+		const svgAt = html.indexOf('data-testid="visual-svg"');
+		const captionAt = html.indexOf(">Figure<");
+		assert.ok(svgAt !== -1 && captionAt !== -1 && svgAt < captionAt, "the caption row sits below the image");
+		assert.ok(captionAt < html.indexOf("visual-download"), "the controls ride the caption row");
+		// The invert affordance: the contrast-circle disc + the tooltip.
+		assert.ok(html.includes("size-3"), "the icon disc");
+		assert.ok(html.includes('title="Invert colors"'), "the tooltip names the toggle");
+	});
+
 	it("svgNaturalWidth: declared px sizes parse; %, auto, and absent fall back to null", () => {
 		assert.equal(svgNaturalWidth('<svg width="200" height="100"></svg>'), 200);
 		assert.equal(svgNaturalWidth("<svg width='320'></svg>"), 320);