diff --git a/server/publish/siteCssBundle.ts b/server/publish/siteCssBundle.ts
index daa7346dc..c607c368e 100644
--- a/server/publish/siteCssBundle.ts
+++ b/server/publish/siteCssBundle.ts
@@ -111,6 +111,38 @@ export function buildPublishedSiteCssBundle(
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Cascade layers for the CMS's own baseline CSS, lowest priority first.
+ *
+ * Unlayered CSS beats every cascade layer, regardless of specificity or source
+ * order. Emitting `reset` and `framework` unlayered therefore made them
+ * outrank any imported stylesheet that uses `@layer` — which is every Tailwind
+ * v4 build, whose entire output is wrapped in `@layer theme/base/utilities/…`.
+ * A site imported through the Site Import wizard rendered with the CMS's own
+ * tokens (`--primary`, font stack, layout defaults) silently overriding the
+ * imported design, while the imported CSS shipped intact but inert.
+ *
+ * Naming these layers puts the baseline below imported CSS. Order within the
+ * document follows first appearance, and `reset` is the first stylesheet on
+ * the page, so the declaration below fixes the order for both.
+ *
+ * Deliberately NOT layered: `style` (author-authored class CSS from the
+ * Styles panel + import). Those are explicit authoring decisions and stay
+ * unlayered so they keep winning over both the baseline and imported sheets.
+ */
+const BASELINE_LAYERS = { reset: 'instatic-reset', framework: 'instatic-framework' } as const
+
+/** `@layer a, b;` — fixes relative order before either layer is populated. */
+const BASELINE_LAYER_ORDER = `@layer ${BASELINE_LAYERS.reset}, ${BASELINE_LAYERS.framework};`
+
+/**
+ * Wrap a CSS body in a named cascade layer. Empty bodies still emit the block
+ * so the layer is registered in the document's layer order either way.
+ */
+function inCascadeLayer(layer: string, css: string): string {
+  return `@layer ${layer} {\n${css}\n}`
+}
+
 /** Build the three page-invariant bundle files from scratch. */
 function computePageInvariantBundles(
   site: SiteDocument,
@@ -118,8 +150,14 @@ function computePageInvariantBundles(
   options: ResponsiveCssOptions,
 ): PageInvariantBundles {
   return {
-    reset: makeBundleFile('reset', PUBLISHER_RESET_CSS),
-    framework: makeBundleFile('framework', buildFrameworkCss(site, registry)),
+    reset: makeBundleFile(
+      'reset',
+      `${BASELINE_LAYER_ORDER}\n${inCascadeLayer(BASELINE_LAYERS.reset, PUBLISHER_RESET_CSS)}`,
+    ),
+    framework: makeBundleFile(
+      'framework',
+      inCascadeLayer(BASELINE_LAYERS.framework, buildFrameworkCss(site, registry)),
+    ),
     style: makeBundleFile('style', collectClassCSS(site, options)),
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/__tests__/canvas/classStyleInjector.test.ts b/src/__tests__/canvas/classStyleInjector.test.ts
index 405f34a3a..79ed28eac 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/canvas/classStyleInjector.test.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/canvas/classStyleInjector.test.ts
@@ -91,6 +91,39 @@ describe('generateCanvasClassCSS', () => {
     expect(css).not.toMatch(/\[data-breakpoint-id\][^{]*\{[^}]*color:\s*#000/)
   })
 
+  /**
+   * Cascade layers. Everything this builder returns is wrapped in
+   * `@layer user-authored` by ClassStyleInjector, and imported stylesheets land
+   * in that same layer via UserStylesheetInjector. Rules sitting DIRECTLY in
+   * `user-authored` outrank rules in its nested sublayers, so an unlayered
+   * reset here beat every rule of an imported Tailwind sheet (whose output is
+   * entirely layered, nested one level deeper once wrapped). The canvas then
+   * previewed CMS defaults — `:where(body) { font-family: system-ui }` winning
+   * over the site's own font — while the published page rendered correctly.
+   */
+  it('declares the baseline layer order before populating either layer', () => {
+    const css = generateCanvasClassCSS({}, [])
+    const order = css.indexOf('@layer instatic-reset, instatic-framework;')
+    expect(order).toBe(0)
+    expect(order).toBeLessThan(css.indexOf('@layer instatic-reset {'))
+  })
+
+  it('wraps the publisher reset inside the reset layer', () => {
+    const css = generateCanvasClassCSS({}, [])
+    const layerStart = css.indexOf('@layer instatic-reset {')
+    expect(layerStart).toBeGreaterThan(-1)
+    // The reset's rules must sit inside the layer block, not beside it.
+    expect(css.indexOf(':where(body)')).toBeGreaterThan(layerStart)
+  })
+
+  it('leaves author class CSS unlayered so it still wins', () => {
+    const css = generateCanvasClassCSS({ hero: makeClass('hero', { color: 'red' }) }, [])
+    const ruleAt = css.search(/\.hero\b/)
+    expect(ruleAt).toBeGreaterThan(-1)
+    // Nothing re-opens a baseline layer after the class rules begin.
+    expect(css.slice(ruleAt)).not.toContain('@layer instatic-')
+  })
+
   it('uses the viewport context media query for canvas breakpoint styles', () => {
     const css = generateCanvasClassCSS(
       {
diff --git a/src/__tests__/publisher/cspPlan.test.ts b/src/__tests__/publisher/cspPlan.test.ts
index e9cfea458..dc9e96852 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/publisher/cspPlan.test.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/publisher/cspPlan.test.ts
@@ -31,10 +31,11 @@ describe('CspPlan — serialization is deterministic and sorted', () => {
   it('sorts directives by name and sources within each directive', () => {
     const plan = createBaseCspPlan({ anyScriptTag: false })
     const csp = serializeCsp(plan)
-    // Directives alphabetical: default-src < frame-src < img-src < media-src
-    //   < script-src < style-src < worker-src
+    // Directives alphabetical: default-src < font-src < frame-src < img-src
+    //   < media-src < script-src < style-src < worker-src
     expect(csp).toBe(
-      "default-src 'self'; frame-src 'none'; img-src 'self' data: https:; " +
+      "default-src 'self'; font-src 'self' data: https:; frame-src 'none'; " +
+        "img-src 'self' data: https:; " +
         "media-src 'self' data: https:; " +
         "script-src 'none'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; worker-src 'none';",
     )
@@ -52,6 +53,19 @@ describe('CspPlan — serialization is deterministic and sorted', () => {
     expect(media).toBe(img)
   })
 
+  it('lets a base64 @font-face load, exactly like a data: image', () => {
+    // Icon fonts routinely inline their faces as base64. Without an explicit
+    // `font-src` the browser fell back to `default-src 'self'` and refused
+    // every one — and the only symptom was a console line, because the
+    // stylesheet is intact and the text just renders in the fallback family.
+    // An imported site ships these without the author ever writing one.
+    const csp = serializeCsp(createBaseCspPlan({ anyScriptTag: true }))
+    expect(csp).toContain("font-src 'self' data: https:;")
+    const img = /img-src ([^;]+);/.exec(csp)?.[1]
+    const font = /font-src ([^;]+);/.exec(csp)?.[1]
+    expect(font).toBe(img)
+  })
+
   it('produces a byte-identical policy regardless of source insertion order', () => {
     const a = createBaseCspPlan({ anyScriptTag: true, importmapSha: 'ABC123' })
     const b = createBaseCspPlan({ anyScriptTag: true, importmapSha: 'ABC123' })
diff --git a/src/__tests__/server/siteCssBundle.test.ts b/src/__tests__/server/siteCssBundle.test.ts
index 453e66f6d..eb3511eca 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/server/siteCssBundle.test.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/server/siteCssBundle.test.ts
@@ -339,4 +339,47 @@ describe('buildSiteCssBundle', () => {
     expect(before.framework.content).not.toContain('.bg-primary')
     expect(after.framework.content).toContain('.bg-primary')
   })
+
+  /**
+   * Cascade layering. Unlayered CSS outranks every cascade layer regardless of
+   * specificity or source order, so emitting the CMS baseline unlayered made it
+   * silently override any imported stylesheet that uses `@layer` — i.e. every
+   * Tailwind v4 build, whose whole output is layered. The imported CSS shipped
+   * intact but inert, and the site rendered with CMS tokens instead.
+   */
+  describe('cascade layers', () => {
+    it('declares the baseline layer order in reset, before either layer is used', () => {
+      const { reset } = buildSiteCssBundle(makeSite(), registry)
+      const order = reset.content.indexOf('@layer instatic-reset, instatic-framework;')
+      expect(order).toBe(0)
+      // The order statement must precede the block that populates the layer.
+      expect(order).toBeLessThan(reset.content.indexOf('@layer instatic-reset {'))
+    })
+
+    it('wraps reset and framework in the baseline layers', () => {
+      const site = makeSite()
+      site.pages = [makePage({ root: { moduleId: 'base.text', props: { text: 'Hi' } } })]
+
+      const { reset, framework } = buildSiteCssBundle(site, registry)
+      expect(reset.content).toContain('@layer instatic-reset {')
+      expect(framework.content).toContain('@layer instatic-framework {')
+      // Module CSS travels inside the framework bundle, so it is layered too.
+      expect(framework.content).toContain('h1 { color: black; }')
+    })
+
+    it('leaves author-authored class CSS unlayered so it still wins', () => {
+      // `style` carries Styles-panel and imported class rules — explicit
+      // authoring decisions that must outrank both the baseline and any
+      // imported sheet. Unlayered is what buys that.
+      const { style } = buildSiteCssBundle(makeSite(), registry)
+      expect(style.content).not.toContain('@layer')
+    })
+
+    it('keeps user stylesheets unwrapped so their own @layer rules survive', () => {
+      // A kept Tailwind sheet arrives already layered. Wrapping it again would
+      // nest its layers under ours and re-invert the very precedence we fixed.
+      const { userStyles } = buildSiteCssBundle(makeSite(), registry)
+      expect(userStyles.content).not.toContain('@layer instatic-')
+    })
+  })
 })
diff --git a/src/admin/pages/site/canvas/canvasClassCss.ts b/src/admin/pages/site/canvas/canvasClassCss.ts
index 886aa4069..e0067469e 100644
--- a/src/admin/pages/site/canvas/canvasClassCss.ts
+++ b/src/admin/pages/site/canvas/canvasClassCss.ts
@@ -35,6 +35,19 @@ function buildCanvasClassCSS(
 ): string {
   const blocks: string[] = []
 
+  // Baseline layer order, mirroring the published bundle (see
+  // `server/publish/siteCssBundle.ts`). Everything this function returns is
+  // wrapped in `@layer user-authored` by ClassStyleInjector, and the imported
+  // stylesheets land in that same layer via UserStylesheetInjector. Rules
+  // sitting DIRECTLY in `user-authored` outrank rules in its nested sublayers,
+  // so an unlayered reset here beat every rule of an imported Tailwind sheet
+  // (whose output is entirely `@layer theme/base/utilities`, nested one level
+  // deeper once wrapped). The canvas then previewed CMS defaults —
+  // `:where(body) { font-family: system-ui }` winning over the site's own
+  // font — while the published page, which layers these correctly, did not.
+  // Naming the sublayers restores the published cascade inside the iframe.
+  blocks.push('@layer instatic-reset, instatic-framework;')
+
   // Publisher reset, identical to what `publishPage()` ships. Each canvas
   // breakpoint frame is its own iframe with its own `<body>`, so we use the
   // unscoped reset (low-specificity `:where(body) { ... }` rules) rather
@@ -43,20 +56,25 @@ function buildCanvasClassCSS(
   // `body { color: var(--color-fg) }` wins over the reset's `:where(body)`
   // baseline, the way it does on the live site. Editor chrome lives outside
   // the iframe so the reset can't leak into the toolbars / panels.
-  blocks.push(PUBLISHER_RESET_CSS)
+  blocks.push(`@layer instatic-reset {\n${PUBLISHER_RESET_CSS}\n}`)
 
   // Fonts go first (after the reset) so `@font-face` declarations exist before
   // any rule that references the family — browsers tolerate the reverse order,
   // but the ordering keeps generated CSS easier to inspect.
+  //
+  // `@font-face` is layer-neutral (it registers a family rather than matching
+  // an element), so grouping it with the framework costs nothing.
+  const baseline: string[] = []
   const fontsCss = generateFontsCss(fonts)
-  if (fontsCss) blocks.push(fontsCss)
+  if (fontsCss) baseline.push(fontsCss)
   const frameworkCss = generateFrameworkRootCss({
     colors: frameworkColors,
     typography: frameworkTypography,
     spacing: frameworkSpacing,
     preferences: frameworkPreferences,
   })
-  if (frameworkCss) blocks.push(frameworkCss)
+  if (frameworkCss) baseline.push(frameworkCss)
+  if (baseline.length) blocks.push(`@layer instatic-framework {\n${baseline.join('\n\n')}\n}`)
 
   // The registry CSS is the publisher's own generator — the canvas ships the
   // exact bytes a publish would (rule order, condition/viewport cascade, and
diff --git a/src/core/publisher/cspPlan.ts b/src/core/publisher/cspPlan.ts
index 9b6f33f64..0a033027c 100644
--- a/src/core/publisher/cspPlan.ts
+++ b/src/core/publisher/cspPlan.ts
@@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ export function createBaseCspPlan(opts: {
   // invisible in the markup: the element is correct, the URL resolves, and
   // only the console says why nothing happens.
   setCspDirective(plan, 'media-src', ["'self'", 'data:', 'https:'])
+  // Fonts, for the third time and the same reason — but this one bites more
+  // often than the other two. Base64 `@font-face` sources are routine in
+  // third-party CSS (icon fonts especially), so a site brought in through
+  // Site Import ships them without the author ever having written one.
+  // Falling back to `default-src 'self'` blocked every such face, and the
+  // only symptom was a console line: the stylesheet is intact, the rule
+  // parses, the text just silently renders in the fallback family.
+  setCspDirective(plan, 'font-src', ["'self'", 'data:', 'https:'])
   setCspDirective(plan, 'frame-src', ["'none'"])
   setCspDirective(plan, 'worker-src', opts.anyScriptTag ? ["'self'", 'blob:'] : ["'none'"])
   return plan