diff --git a/web/src/lib/palette.ts b/web/src/lib/palette.ts
index 6ca042a..a1ec3cb 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/palette.ts
+++ b/web/src/lib/palette.ts
@@ -23,10 +23,20 @@ export interface PaletteMeta {
   name: string;
   /** Shown in Settings and in NOTICE; who to credit and under what. */
   credit?: string;
+  /**
+   * Whether the name is a word rather than a name.
+   *
+   * Five of these six are proper names -- ihasmail, Dracula, Gruvbox, Rosé
+   * Pine, Tokyo Night -- and are rendered translate="no" so a page translator
+   * leaves them alone. "Classic" is not a name, it is an adjective describing
+   * the theme, and a German reader should see "Klassisch". Reported by a
+   * native speaker reviewing the German catalogue (#247).
+   */
+  translatable?: boolean;
 }
 
 export const PALETTES: PaletteMeta[] = [
-  { id: "default", name: "Classic" },
+  { id: "default", name: "Classic", translatable: true },
   { id: "ihasmail", name: "ihasmail" },
   { id: "dracula", name: "Dracula", credit: "Dracula Theme (MIT) — dark: Dracula, light: Alucard" },
   { id: "gruvbox", name: "Gruvbox", credit: "gruvbox by morhetz (MIT)" },
diff --git a/web/src/views/settings/AppearanceSettings.tsx b/web/src/views/settings/AppearanceSettings.tsx
index 883719b..d89826e 100644
--- a/web/src/views/settings/AppearanceSettings.tsx
+++ b/web/src/views/settings/AppearanceSettings.tsx
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ export function AppearanceSettings() {
           return (
             <button key={p.id} className={`theme-card ${s.palette === p.id ? "active" : ""}`} onClick={() => update({ palette: p.id })}>
               <div className="preview" style={{ background: PALETTE_PREVIEW[p.id][shown] || PALETTE_PREVIEW[p.id].dark }} />
-              <span className="notranslate" translate="no">{p.name}</span>
+              {p.translatable
+                ? <span>{translate(p.name)}</span>
+                : <span className="notranslate" translate="no">{p.name}</span>}
             </button>
           );
         })}
diff --git a/web/src/views/settings/RuleDialog.tsx b/web/src/views/settings/RuleDialog.tsx
index 0bb8006..02f6cc2 100644
--- a/web/src/views/settings/RuleDialog.tsx
+++ b/web/src/views/settings/RuleDialog.tsx
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ export function RuleDialog({ rule, onClose, onSave, applyMailbox, applyByDefault
               else if (v === "address") setTest(i, { type: "address", header: "from", part: "domain", op: "is", value: "" });
               else setTest(i, { type: "header", header: v === "__custom__" ? "" : v, op: "contains", value: "" });
             }}>
-              {HEADER_CHOICES.map((h) => <option key={h.value} value={h.value}>{h.label}</option>)}
+              {HEADER_CHOICES.map((h) => <option key={h.value} value={h.value}>{translate(h.label)}</option>)}
               <option value="address">{translate("Sender domain")}</option>
               <option value="size">{translate("Message size")}</option>
               <option value="body">{translate("Body text")}</option>
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ export function RuleDialog({ rule, onClose, onSave, applyMailbox, applyByDefault
               <select className="select" value={t.op} onChange={(e) => setTest(i, { ...t, op: e.target.value as "contains" | "notcontains" })}><option value="contains">{translate("contains")}</option><option value="notcontains">{translate("does not contain")}</option></select>
             ) : t.type === "true" ? <span /> : (
               <select className="select" value={t.op} onChange={(e) => setTest(i, { ...t, op: e.target.value as SieveTest extends { op: infer O } ? O : never })}>
-                {HEADER_OPS.map((o) => <option key={o.value} value={o.value}>{o.label}</option>)}
+                {HEADER_OPS.map((o) => <option key={o.value} value={o.value}>{translate(o.label)}</option>)}
               </select>
             )}
             {t.type === "size" ? (
diff --git a/web/src/views/settings/ShortcutsSettings.tsx b/web/src/views/settings/ShortcutsSettings.tsx
index b721b9f..9a9ecce 100644
--- a/web/src/views/settings/ShortcutsSettings.tsx
+++ b/web/src/views/settings/ShortcutsSettings.tsx
@@ -21,9 +21,15 @@ export function ShortcutsSettings() {
       <div className="shortcut-grid">
         {groups.map(([group, items]) => (
           <div key={group}>
-            <h3>{group}</h3>
+            {/* Group names and descriptions are registered in English at the
+                call sites -- see views/Shortcuts.tsx -- because the binding
+                table is data, not markup, and the English is the catalogue
+                key. Translating at render keeps the registration simple and
+                means a binding added anywhere is translatable without the
+                registrar knowing about i18n. */}
+            <h3>{t(group)}</h3>
             {items.map((b) => (
-              <div key={b.keys} className="shortcut-row"><span>{b.description}</span><Kbd keys={b.keys} /></div>
+              <div key={b.keys} className="shortcut-row"><span>{t(b.description)}</span><Kbd keys={b.keys} /></div>
             ))}
           </div>
         ))}