diff --git a/web/themes/custom/geofresco/dist/css/global.css b/web/themes/custom/geofresco/dist/css/global.css
index 1e8c93e..162a756 100644
--- a/web/themes/custom/geofresco/dist/css/global.css
+++ b/web/themes/custom/geofresco/dist/css/global.css
@@ -6026,6 +6026,13 @@ label.panel-block {
 .block-page-title-block {
   padding: 1rem 1.5rem; }
 
+/**
+ * Give enough of a background around text in the footer that it is legible on
+ * any part of the grassy field image used as the background.
+ */
+.footer .views-field {
+  background-color: rgba(143, 180, 137, 0.4); }
+
 .column {
   display: block;
   -ms-flex-preferred-size: 0;