diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c1edd75..2af3826 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ listed under a **Changed** or **Removed** heading.
 - **`--font` no longer tells its readers to edit `src/art.rs`.** It printed a
   note meant for contributors to everyone who ran it.
 
+- **The two guidance messages line their columns up.** `could not detect a
+  GitHub user` put one of its three suggestions two columns out, and the
+  `--demo` line — the one that needs no account at all — came last. The
+  missing-file message tried to align against an interpolated path, which
+  cannot be done, and repeated back a path the reader had just typed.
+
 
 - **`brew install vyncint/tap/mossaic`.** The formula is generated by the
   release itself from the checksums the archives produced, so it cannot
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 8506b5e..e4022e5 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ fn main() {
             if !Path::new(path).is_file() {
                 fail(&format!(
                     "no calendar file at {path}\n\n  \
-                     mossaic-art TEXT --snapshot {path}   write one\n  \
-                     mossaic --demo   a sample year instead"
+                     mossaic-art TEXT --snapshot FILE   write one\n  \
+                     mossaic --demo                     a sample year instead"
                 ));
             }
         }
@@ -396,9 +396,9 @@ fn parse_args() -> Option<Invocation> {
     let login = login.or_else(github::whoami).unwrap_or_else(|| {
         fail(
             "could not detect a GitHub user.\n\n  \
-             mossaic <username>   chart someone by name\n  \
-             gh auth login          authenticate, then just `mossaic`\n  \
-             mossaic --demo       see what it looks like first",
+             mossaic <username>  chart someone by name\n  \
+             mossaic --demo      see what it looks like first\n  \
+             gh auth login       authenticate, then just `mossaic`",
         )
     });
     Some(Invocation {