diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d31e0b1..f344c51 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -28,7 +28,13 @@ Format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/); version
   whose only card is the narrow one now takes its heading and footer down to the
   card's width instead of splitting them across the wider measure, and the send
   log stops breaking `Details` and `deferred` across two lines when a row is
-  tight. The three
+  tight.
+- panel: the send log's **status is a badge**, in the same ok/warn/error/unknown
+  colours the status page and the DNS checks use, instead of the one place in
+  the panel where a status was bare text. The mapping is the one the delivery
+  page already applied — `sent` is ok, `deferred` a warning, `bounced` and
+  `rejected` errors, `queued` unknown because nothing has gone wrong yet.
+  The three
   WOFF2 files add ~76 KB to the image and are served from the panel's own origin,
   so the Content-Security-Policy is unchanged (`default-src 'self'`).
 
diff --git a/internal/web/handlers/handlers_monitor.go b/internal/web/handlers/handlers_monitor.go
index 60fffd9..57a0b4c 100644
--- a/internal/web/handlers/handlers_monitor.go
+++ b/internal/web/handlers/handlers_monitor.go
@@ -145,6 +145,17 @@ func deliveryLevel(status string) string {
 	}
 }
 
+// sendLogRow is a row of the send log as the table draws it: the stored row
+// plus the badge level its status maps onto. The level is carried rather than
+// derived in the template because deliveryLevel is the one place that decides
+// what a status means — the delivery page already reads it, and a second
+// mapping written in the template or the stylesheet would be free to drift
+// from it.
+type sendLogRow struct {
+	store.SendLogRow
+	Level string // ok / warn / error / unknown, as deliveryLevel returns
+}
+
 // deliveryEvent is one step of a message's history, as the timeline on the
 // delivery page draws it. At is zero for the step that has not happened yet —
 // the delivery report a queued message is still waiting for.
@@ -324,8 +335,10 @@ func (h *Handlers) sendLogData(r *http.Request) (map[string]any, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	view := make([]sendLogRow, len(rows))
 	for i := range rows {
 		rows[i].Subject = mailhdr.DecodeSubject(rows[i].Subject)
+		view[i] = sendLogRow{SendLogRow: rows[i], Level: deliveryLevel(rows[i].Status)}
 	}
 
 	domainNames := make([]string, 0, len(assigned))
@@ -358,7 +371,7 @@ func (h *Handlers) sendLogData(r *http.Request) (map[string]any, error) {
 		lastPage = int((total + sendLogPageSize - 1) / sendLogPageSize)
 	}
 	return map[string]any{
-		"Rows":          rows,
+		"Rows":          view,
 		"FilterDomains": domainNames,
 		"FilterApps":    logins,
 		"FilterDomain":  filter.Domain,
diff --git a/internal/web/view/templates/deliveries_rows.html b/internal/web/view/templates/deliveries_rows.html
index f0275d4..b14610f 100644
--- a/internal/web/view/templates/deliveries_rows.html
+++ b/internal/web/view/templates/deliveries_rows.html
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
         <td>{{.From}}</td>
         <td>{{.To}}</td>
         <td class="subject"><span title="{{.Subject}}">{{.Subject}}</span></td>
-        <td class="status">{{.Status}}</td>
+        <td class="status"><span class="st st-{{.Level}}">{{.Status}}</span></td>
         <td class="actions"><a href="/deliveries/{{.ID}}?domain={{$.FilterDomain}}&app={{$.FilterApp}}&p={{$.Page}}">Details</a></td>
       </tr>
       {{end}}