diff --git a/ThemeProvider.Test/SemanticColorMapperEdgeCaseTests.cs b/ThemeProvider.Test/SemanticColorMapperEdgeCaseTests.cs
index e7aa549..1418e10 100644
--- a/ThemeProvider.Test/SemanticColorMapperEdgeCaseTests.cs
+++ b/ThemeProvider.Test/SemanticColorMapperEdgeCaseTests.cs
@@ -178,6 +178,59 @@ public void MapColors_ForLightTheme_DarkensAsPriorityRises()
 		Assert.IsLessThan(lowest, highest, "A light theme must darken as priority rises");
 	}
 
+	/// <summary>
+	/// A meaning with a single source color keeps that color's alpha, the same way an interpolated
+	/// neutral ramp does, rather than coming out opaque.
+	/// </summary>
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void MapColors_WithSingleTranslucentSourceColor_KeepsItsAlpha()
+	{
+		StubTheme theme = new(
+			new Dictionary<SemanticMeaning, Collection<Color>>
+			{
+				[SemanticMeaning.Neutral] = [Color.FromHex("#10101080"), Color.FromHex("#f0f0f080")],
+				[SemanticMeaning.Primary] = [Color.FromHex("#3366cc80")],
+			},
+			isDark: true);
+
+		IReadOnlyDictionary<SemanticColorRequest, Color> palette = SemanticColorMapper.MakeCompletePalette(theme);
+		double sourceAlpha = Color.FromHex("#3366cc80").A;
+
+		foreach (Priority priority in Enum.GetValues<Priority>())
+		{
+			Assert.AreEqual(
+				sourceAlpha,
+				palette[new(SemanticMeaning.Primary, priority)].A,
+				1e-9,
+				$"Primary at {priority} lost its source alpha");
+		}
+	}
+
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Extrapolating a color to its own lightness returns that color unchanged. Saturated sRGB
+	/// primaries sit exactly on the gamut boundary, so the Oklab round trip leaves them a hair
+	/// outside it, and an exact gamut test would wrongly shave their chroma (#ff0000 to #ff0201).
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <param name="hex">The source color.</param>
+	[TestMethod]
+	[DataRow("#FF0000")]
+	[DataRow("#00FF00")]
+	[DataRow("#0000FF")]
+	[DataRow("#FFFF00")]
+	[DataRow("#00FFFF")]
+	[DataRow("#FF00FF")]
+	[DataRow("#FFFFFF")]
+	[DataRow("#000000")]
+	[DataRow("#3366CC80")]
+	public void ExtrapolateColorToLightness_AtItsOwnLightness_ReturnsTheSameColor(string hex)
+	{
+		Color source = Color.FromHex(hex);
+
+		Color result = SemanticColorMapper.ExtrapolateColorToLightness(source, source.ToOklab().L);
+
+		Assert.AreEqual(hex, result.ToHex());
+	}
+
 	/// <summary>
 	/// Every color the mapper emits for every registered theme must be inside the sRGB gamut.
 	/// The mapper reduces chroma to stay in gamut, and this pins that it always succeeds.
diff --git a/ThemeProvider/SemanticColorMapper.cs b/ThemeProvider/SemanticColorMapper.cs
index 6eb01d3..24951df 100644
--- a/ThemeProvider/SemanticColorMapper.cs
+++ b/ThemeProvider/SemanticColorMapper.cs
@@ -268,9 +268,9 @@ private static Color InterpolateToTargetLightness(
 	}
 
 	/// <summary>
-	/// Extrapolates a single color to a target lightness while preserving its hue and chroma.
+	/// Extrapolates a single color to a target lightness while preserving its hue, chroma and alpha.
 	/// </summary>
-	private static Color ExtrapolateColorToLightness(Color baseColor, double targetLightness)
+	internal static Color ExtrapolateColorToLightness(Color baseColor, double targetLightness)
 	{
 		// Work in Oklab space for perceptually uniform lightness adjustment
 		Oklab baseOklab = baseColor.ToOklab();
@@ -283,17 +283,12 @@ private static Color ExtrapolateColorToLightness(Color baseColor, double targetL
 		);
 
 		// Convert to Color to check if it's in gamut
-		Color targetColor = Color.FromOklab(targetOklab);
+		Color targetColor = Color.FromOklab(targetOklab, baseColor.A);
 
-		// Check if RGB values are within valid range
-		bool inGamut = targetColor.R >= 0.0 && targetColor.R <= 1.0 &&
-				   targetColor.G >= 0.0 && targetColor.G <= 1.0 &&
-				   targetColor.B >= 0.0 && targetColor.B <= 1.0;
-
-		if (inGamut)
+		if (IsInGamut(targetColor))
 		{
-			// Color is in gamut, use it directly
-			return targetColor;
+			// Color is in gamut, use it directly (clamped to absorb the round-trip error IsInGamut tolerates)
+			return targetColor.Clamp();
 		}
 
 		// Color is out of gamut, we need to find the best in-gamut color
@@ -320,13 +315,9 @@ private static Color ExtrapolateColorToLightness(Color baseColor, double targetL
 				B: testChroma * Math.Sin(hue)
 			);
 
-			Color testColor = Color.FromOklab(testOklab);
-
-			bool testInGamut = testColor.R >= 0.0 && testColor.R <= 1.0 &&
-						   testColor.G >= 0.0 && testColor.G <= 1.0 &&
-						   testColor.B >= 0.0 && testColor.B <= 1.0;
+			Color testColor = Color.FromOklab(testOklab, baseColor.A);
 
-			if (testInGamut)
+			if (IsInGamut(testColor))
 			{
 				// This chroma works, try higher
 				minChroma = testChroma;
@@ -339,18 +330,27 @@ private static Color ExtrapolateColorToLightness(Color baseColor, double targetL
 			}
 		}
 
-		// Convert the best in-gamut color to the final Color
-		Color bestColor = Color.FromOklab(bestOklab);
-
-		// Final safety clamp (should not be needed if binary search worked correctly)
-		return Color.FromLinear(
-			Math.Max(0.0, Math.Min(bestColor.R, 1.0)),
-			Math.Max(0.0, Math.Min(bestColor.G, 1.0)),
-			Math.Max(0.0, Math.Min(bestColor.B, 1.0)),
-			bestColor.A
-		);
+		// Convert the best in-gamut color to the final Color, clamping away the tolerated round-trip error
+		return Color.FromOklab(bestOklab, baseColor.A).Clamp();
 	}
 
+	/// <summary>
+	/// How far outside [0, 1] a linear channel may stray and still count as in gamut. An Oklab round
+	/// trip of an in-gamut color leaves error on the order of 1e-7, so an exact bounds check would
+	/// misclassify colors like pure sRGB red as out of gamut and needlessly reduce their chroma.
+	/// </summary>
+	private const double GamutTolerance = 1e-6;
+
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Determines whether every linear channel of <paramref name="color"/> lies within the sRGB gamut,
+	/// allowing <see cref="GamutTolerance"/> of floating-point error.
+	/// </summary>
+	private static bool IsInGamut(Color color) =>
+		IsChannelInGamut(color.R) && IsChannelInGamut(color.G) && IsChannelInGamut(color.B);
+
+	private static bool IsChannelInGamut(double channel) =>
+		channel is >= -GamutTolerance and <= 1.0 + GamutTolerance;
+
 	/// <summary>
 	/// Interpolates between colors in a sorted list to achieve a target lightness.
 	/// </summary>