diff --git a/src/textual_paint/paint.css b/src/textual_paint/paint.css
index d3c3420..f1f035e 100644
--- a/src/textual_paint/paint.css
+++ b/src/textual_paint/paint.css
@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ Screen {
     overflow: hidden;
 }
 
+/* Show brush handles (middle row of 3x3 icon) when header is collapsed */
+/* :not() support would make this easier */
+Header HeaderIcon {
+    /* offset: 0 -1; causes it to be invisible (bug?) */
+    margin-top: -1;
+}
+Header.-tall HeaderIcon {
+    /* offset: 0 0; */
+    margin-top: 0;
+}
+
 #paint {
     layout: vertical;
 }
diff --git a/src/textual_paint/paint.py b/src/textual_paint/paint.py
index 2ac1415..e7abc6d 100755
--- a/src/textual_paint/paint.py
+++ b/src/textual_paint/paint.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ from textual.strip import Strip
 from textual.dom import DOMNode
 from textual.widget import Widget
 from textual.widgets import Button, Static, Input, Header, RadioSet, RadioButton
+from textual.widgets._header import HeaderIcon
 from textual.binding import Binding
 from textual.color import Color, ColorParseError
 from PIL import Image, UnidentifiedImageError
@@ -5246,6 +5247,11 @@ if args.ascii_only:
 
     RadioButton.BUTTON_INNER = "*" # "*", "o", "O", "@"
 
+# HeaderIcon.icon = "[on white][blue]\\\\[/][red]|[/][yellow]/[/][/]"
+HeaderIcon.icon = "[black]..,[/]\n[blue]\\\\[/][on white][red]|[/][yellow]/[/][/]\n[black on rgb(192,192,192)]\\[_][/]"
+# HeaderIcon.icon = "[black]..,[/]\n[blue]\\\\[/][on white][red]|[/][yellow]/[/][/]\n[black on rgb(192,192,192)]\\[][on white] [/][/]"
+# HeaderIcon.icon = "[black]...[/]\n[on white][blue]\\\\[/][red]|[/][yellow]/[/][/]\n[black on rgb(192,192,192)]\\[][on white] [/][/]"
+
 
 # `textual run --dev src.textual_paint.paint` will search for a 
 # global variable named `app`, and fallback to