diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/person/genealogy/layout/buildLayout.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/person/genealogy/layout/buildLayout.test.ts
index 267b1191..82d8f11e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/person/genealogy/layout/buildLayout.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/person/genealogy/layout/buildLayout.test.ts
@@ -581,4 +581,36 @@ describe('buildLayout — ancestor centring invariant (#724)', () => {
 			expect(intrudes, `foreign node ${id} interleaved into the R1 band`).toBe(false);
 		}
 	});
+
+	it('no bloodline is smeared across the canvas (per-bloodline span regression)', () => {
+		// Golden constant: measured 2026-06-04, the OLD per-generation block
+		// packer laid the canonical fixture out 4860px wide and smeared a single
+		// bloodline (Albert de Gruyter G0 … a far-right descendant) across that
+		// whole span — the bug. Total canvas width is NOT the right metric for the
+		// fix (centring every ancestor makes a 24-root forest wider overall, and
+		// pan/zoom from #692 handles navigation); per-bloodline compactness is.
+		// Each contiguous bloodline must occupy far less than the old full-canvas
+		// smear. Today the widest is Albert's at ~960px.
+		const OLD_FULL_CANVAS = 4860;
+
+		const layout = buildLayout(fixtureNodes, fixtureEdges);
+		const forest = buildFamilyForest(fixtureNodes, fixtureEdges);
+		const bloodlineSpan = (root: Unit): number => {
+			const ids: string[] = [];
+			const collect = (u: Unit) => {
+				ids.push(...u.members);
+				u.children.forEach(collect);
+			};
+			collect(root);
+			const xs = ids.map((id) => layout.positions.get(id)!.x);
+			return Math.max(...xs) + NODE_W - Math.min(...xs);
+		};
+
+		const spans = forest.roots.map(bloodlineSpan);
+		const widest = Math.max(...spans);
+		// Every bloodline is dramatically more compact than the old smear …
+		expect(widest).toBeLessThan(OLD_FULL_CANVAS);
+		// … and in fact comfortably under a quarter of it (no smear creeps back).
+		expect(widest).toBeLessThanOrEqual(OLD_FULL_CANVAS / 4);
+	});
 });