diff --git a/packages/diagram-client/src/diagram-client.css b/packages/diagram-client/src/diagram-client.css
index b5ac416..578e2c5 100644
--- a/packages/diagram-client/src/diagram-client.css
+++ b/packages/diagram-client/src/diagram-client.css
@@ -774,6 +774,28 @@ i.cal-toggle-feedback-edges.cal-feedback-hidden-icon {
     opacity: 0.10;
 }
 
+/* ── Node center images (a family's own mark, in its own colours) ──
+ * Light and dark are separate images, as on the palette; VS Code stamps the
+ * theme on the body. The dark one is the base, so a mark with only one image
+ * shows it in every theme. */
+.node-center-image {
+    pointer-events: none;
+}
+
+.node-center-image-light {
+    display: none;
+}
+
+body.vscode-light .node-center-image.has-light .node-center-image-dark,
+body.vscode-high-contrast-light .node-center-image.has-light .node-center-image-dark {
+    display: none;
+}
+
+body.vscode-light .node-center-image-light,
+body.vscode-high-contrast-light .node-center-image-light {
+    display: inline;
+}
+
 /* External actor node styles - header fill handled via header-compartment */
 .external-actor-node .node-header.external-actor-header {
     fill: var(--workflow-color-external-default);
diff --git a/packages/diagram-client/src/views.ts b/packages/diagram-client/src/views.ts
index 1ab7b47..bb8fbeb 100644
--- a/packages/diagram-client/src/views.ts
+++ b/packages/diagram-client/src/views.ts
@@ -180,8 +180,47 @@ function renderRunRing(width: number, height: number): VNode {
     );
 }
 
-/** Internals reached by the family and ring tests; not part of the module's surface. */
-export const __testables = { resolveNodeFamily, renderRunRing, RUN_RING_BLEED_PX };
+/** Internals reached by the family, mark and ring tests; not part of the module's surface. */
+export const __testables = { resolveNodeFamily, renderRunRing, renderNodeCenterImage, RUN_RING_BLEED_PX };
+
+/**
+ * Draw a family's own full-colour mark centred in the node body, where an icon
+ * family draws its watermark — the image its palette entry shows.
+ *
+ * Light and dark are separate images, as on the palette, so both are laid down
+ * and CSS shows the one for the theme (`has-light` says there is a light one
+ * to switch to).
+ */
+function renderNodeCenterImage(
+    family: NodeFamilySpec,
+    nodeWidth: number,
+    nodeHeight: number
+): VNode[] {
+    const image = family.image;
+    if (!image?.dark) {
+        return [];
+    }
+    const size = NODE_ICON_SIZE;
+    const bodyTop = HEADER_HEIGHT;
+    const x = nodeWidth / 2 - size / 2;
+    const y = bodyTop + (nodeHeight - bodyTop) / 2 - size / 2;
+    const hasLight = Boolean(image.light);
+    const place = (href: string, theme: 'dark' | 'light'): VNode => svg('image', {
+        class: { [`node-center-image-${theme}`]: true },
+        attrs: { href, x, y, width: size, height: size, preserveAspectRatio: 'xMidYMid meet' }
+    });
+
+    return [svg('g', {
+        class: {
+            'node-center-image': true,
+            [`node-image-${family.id ?? family.annotation}`]: true,
+            'has-light': hasLight
+        }
+    },
+        place(image.dark, 'dark'),
+        ...(hasLight ? [place(image.light!, 'light')] : [])
+    )];
+}
 
 /**
  * Render a semi-transparent SVG icon centered in the node body (below the header).
@@ -749,6 +788,7 @@ export class ActorNodeView extends ShapeView {
             // Above the body so the travelling head is not painted over by it.
             ...(isExecuting ? [renderRunRing(width, bodyHeight)] : []),
             ...(family?.icon ? [renderNodeCenterIcon(family, width, bodyHeight)] : []),
+            ...(family?.image ? renderNodeCenterImage(family, width, bodyHeight) : []),
             ...context.renderChildren(node),
             ...(footerLabelNode ? [footerLabelNode] : [])
         );
@@ -817,6 +857,7 @@ export class ExternalActorNodeView extends ShapeView {
             // Above the body so the travelling head is not painted over by it.
             ...(isExecuting ? [renderRunRing(width, bodyHeight)] : []),
             ...(family?.icon ? [renderNodeCenterIcon(family, width, bodyHeight)] : []),
+            ...(family?.image ? renderNodeCenterImage(family, width, bodyHeight) : []),
             ...context.renderChildren(node),
             ...(footerLabelNode ? [footerLabelNode] : [])
         );
diff --git a/packages/diagram-client/test/node-families.test.ts b/packages/diagram-client/test/node-families.test.ts
index 1d0d18e..1830de6 100644
--- a/packages/diagram-client/test/node-families.test.ts
+++ b/packages/diagram-client/test/node-families.test.ts
@@ -120,3 +120,37 @@ describe('the CSS a declaration generates', () => {
         expect(nodeFamilyCss(undefined)).toBe('');
     });
 });
+
+/**
+ * A family can wear its own full-colour mark — the image its palette entry
+ * shows — where an icon family draws a watermark.
+ */
+describe('a family drawn with its own mark', () => {
+    const { renderNodeCenterImage } = __testables;
+    const DARK = 'data:image/svg+xml,dark';
+    const LIGHT = 'data:image/svg+xml,light';
+    const family = { annotation: 'streamblocks', color: '#818a94', image: { dark: DARK, light: LIGHT } };
+
+    // The same reading as the ring tests: the factory keeps its data on `data`
+    // or `props` depending on where it runs.
+    const dataOf = (vnode: any): any => vnode.data ?? vnode.props;
+    const classesOf = (vnode: any) =>
+        Object.entries(dataOf(vnode)?.class ?? {}).filter(([, on]) => on).map(([name]) => name);
+    const hrefOf = (vnode: any) => dataOf(vnode).attrs.href;
+
+    it('lays down both images for the theme to choose between', () => {
+        const [group] = renderNodeCenterImage(family, 200, 100) as any[];
+        const images = group.children as any[];
+
+        expect(classesOf(group)).toContain('has-light');
+        expect(images.map(hrefOf)).toEqual([DARK, LIGHT]);
+        expect(images.map(classesOf)).toEqual([['node-center-image-dark'], ['node-center-image-light']]);
+    });
+
+    it('shows the dark one everywhere when there is no light one', () => {
+        const [group] = renderNodeCenterImage({ ...family, image: { dark: DARK } }, 200, 100) as any[];
+
+        expect(classesOf(group)).not.toContain('has-light');
+        expect((group.children as any[]).map(hrefOf)).toEqual([DARK]);
+    });
+});
diff --git a/packages/shared/src/diagram-seams.ts b/packages/shared/src/diagram-seams.ts
index 6ec9013..ba5f9b0 100644
--- a/packages/shared/src/diagram-seams.ts
+++ b/packages/shared/src/diagram-seams.ts
@@ -194,6 +194,15 @@ export interface NodeFamilySpec {
         viewBox: number;
         paths: string[];
     };
+    /**
+     * The family's own full-colour mark, drawn in the node body where an icon
+     * would be — the image a palette entry shows, one per theme (`dark` is the
+     * base, `light` is optional).
+     */
+    image?: {
+        dark: string;
+        light?: string;
+    };
 }
 
 export interface EntityPaletteItemSpec {