diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/settings/MonthViewStylePicker.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/settings/MonthViewStylePicker.kt
index e5802c6..53101bf 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/settings/MonthViewStylePicker.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/calendula/ui/settings/MonthViewStylePicker.kt
@@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ import kotlinx.datetime.DayOfWeek
  * closing on tap would hide the very thing the screen is for. Back exits, the
  * same as the App name picker, which stays open for the same reason.
  *
- * Below the preview it is the family's standard picker shape: connected grouped
- * rows with a tonal highlight and [SelectedCheck] on the current one.
+ * Under the preview sits the selected style's own one-line blurb, then the
+ * family's standard picker shape: connected single-line grouped rows with a
+ * tonal highlight and [SelectedCheck] on the current one.
  */
 @Composable
 internal fun MonthViewStylePicker(
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ internal fun MonthViewStylePicker(
         Box(
             modifier = Modifier
                 .fillMaxWidth()
-                .padding(horizontal = 16.dp, vertical = 8.dp)
+                .padding(horizontal = 12.dp, vertical = 8.dp)
                 .height(PREVIEW_HEIGHT),
             contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
         ) {
@@ -84,12 +85,14 @@ internal fun MonthViewStylePicker(
                 }
             }
         }
-        PickerDescription(stringResource(R.string.settings_month_view_style_summary))
+        // The selected style's own blurb lives here, under its preview, rather
+        // than on every row — the rows stay single-line and dense, and the words
+        // describe exactly what is being shown above.
+        PickerDescription(stringResource(selected.descriptionRes))
         options.forEachIndexed { index, style ->
             val isSelected = style == selected
             GroupedRow(
                 title = stringResource(style.labelRes),
-                summary = stringResource(style.descriptionRes),
                 position = positionOf(index, options.size),
                 selected = isSelected,
                 trailing = if (isSelected) {
@@ -105,5 +108,5 @@ internal fun MonthViewStylePicker(
     }
 }
 
-private val PREVIEW_HEIGHT = 240.dp
+private val PREVIEW_HEIGHT = 280.dp
 private val PREVIEW_SHAPE = RoundedCornerShape(12.dp)
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml b/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
index 79c5155..ef9bfce 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
@@ -375,15 +375,14 @@
     <!-- Month view style (#38, #53) -->
     <string name="settings_month_header">Month view</string>
     <string name="settings_month_view_style">Month view style</string>
-    <string name="settings_month_view_style_summary">Choose how the month view is laid out and how you move through it.</string>
     <string name="month_style_paged">Pages</string>
-    <string name="month_style_paged_summary">One month at a time. Swipe sideways to change month.</string>
-    <string name="month_style_continuous">Continuous</string>
-    <string name="month_style_continuous_summary">Scroll up and down through the months. Each month keeps to itself under its own heading, with no days borrowed from its neighbours.</string>
-    <string name="month_style_dense">Dense</string>
-    <string name="month_style_dense_summary">The same endless scroll with the seams taken out — one unbroken run of weeks, months flowing into each other.</string>
+    <string name="month_style_paged_summary">One month fills the screen. Swipe left or right to change month.</string>
+    <string name="month_style_continuous">Scrolling months</string>
+    <string name="month_style_continuous_summary">Each month sits under its own heading, with a little space setting it apart from the next.</string>
+    <string name="month_style_dense">Seamless weeks</string>
+    <string name="month_style_dense_summary">The weeks run on without a break, each month flowing straight into the next with no gap between them.</string>
     <string name="month_style_split">Split</string>
-    <string name="month_style_split_summary">A compact grid with dots for events, and the day you tap listed underneath.</string>
+    <string name="month_style_split_summary">A compact grid marks the days that have events, and the day you tap is listed underneath.</string>
     <string name="month_split_no_events">Nothing scheduled</string>
     <string name="month_split_expand">Show the whole month</string>
     <string name="month_split_collapse">Show the day\'s events</string>