diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6af1670..e68479b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Sunstone.zip
 /.flatpak-builder/
 
 # Packaging build artifacts
+/dist/
 /packaging/arch/*.pkg.tar.zst
 /packaging/arch/src/
 /packaging/arch/pkg/
diff --git a/crates/sunstone-gtk/src/lib.rs b/crates/sunstone-gtk/src/lib.rs
index d36eda5..8727438 100644
--- a/crates/sunstone-gtk/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/sunstone-gtk/src/lib.rs
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ pub fn apply_css() {
 
          /* Solid kind badge hung off a notification avatar's corner. */
          .kind-badge { border-radius: 999px; min-width: 20px; min-height: 20px; border: 2px solid #0b0b0c; }
-         .kind-badge > image, .kind-badge > label { margin: 0 auto; }
+         .kind-badge > image, .kind-badge > label { margin: 0; }
          .kind-badge.notif-react  { background: #F2557E; color: #ffffff; }
          .kind-badge.notif-repost { background: #5BD08A; color: #0b0b0c; }
          .kind-badge.notif-zap    { background: #FFC04A; color: #2a1d04; }
diff --git a/packaging/arch/build-local.sh b/packaging/arch/build-local.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..de6c77a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging/arch/build-local.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Build a native Arch package (.pkg.tar.zst) from the current git HEAD, without
+# needing a published forge release. Uses the same recipe as ./PKGBUILD but
+# sources a tarball of the local checkout instead of downloading from the forge.
+#
+# Usage:  packaging/arch/build-local.sh
+# Output: dist/sunstone-<ver>-<rel>-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst  (in the repo root)
+#
+# Install the result with:  sudo pacman -U dist/sunstone-*.pkg.tar.zst
+set -euo pipefail
+
+repo_root="$(git -C "$(dirname "$0")" rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+pkgbuild="$repo_root/packaging/arch/PKGBUILD"
+ver="$(awk -F\" '/^version = / {print $2; exit}' "$repo_root/Cargo.toml")"
+
+distdir="$repo_root/dist"
+workdir="$(mktemp -d)"
+trap 'rm -rf "$workdir"' EXIT
+
+echo ">> Packaging sunstone $ver from $(git -C "$repo_root" rev-parse --short HEAD)"
+
+# tracked files only, extracted under sunstone/ to match _srcdir in PKGBUILD.
+git -C "$repo_root" archive --format=tar.gz --prefix="sunstone/" \
+  -o "$workdir/sunstone-$ver.tar.gz" HEAD
+
+# Local PKGBUILD: pin pkgver + swap the forge source for the local tarball.
+sed -e "s|^pkgver=.*|pkgver=$ver|" \
+    -e "s|^source=.*|source=(\"sunstone-\$pkgver.tar.gz\")|" \
+    "$pkgbuild" > "$workdir/PKGBUILD"
+
+# --nodeps: skip makepkg's install-check of runtime deps (gst plugins etc.) —
+# they're declared in the package but needn't be installed on the build host.
+# Build-time libs are checked separately by the compile itself.
+( cd "$workdir" && makepkg -f --nodeps )
+
+mkdir -p "$distdir"
+cp -f "$workdir"/*.pkg.tar.* "$distdir"/
+echo
+echo ">> Built:"
+ls -1 "$distdir"/*.pkg.tar.*