diff --git a/src/editor/lsp/semantic/kotlin/index.test.ts b/src/editor/lsp/semantic/kotlin/index.test.ts
index 5eab0bb2d..844aea598 100644
--- a/src/editor/lsp/semantic/kotlin/index.test.ts
+++ b/src/editor/lsp/semantic/kotlin/index.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import { Text } from "@codemirror/state";
+import { Tree } from "@lezer/common";
 import { semanticRanges } from "../index";
 
 describe("Kotlin semantic tokens", () => {
@@ -42,4 +43,42 @@ describe("Kotlin semantic tokens", () => {
       )[0]?.className,
     ).toBe("cm-sem-property");
   });
+
+  it("colours annotation names as annotations, not as the constructor calls the server reports", () => {
+    const lines = [
+      '@Column(name = "x")',
+      "@field:Inject @Outer.Inner",
+      "list.forEach { return@forEach }",
+      "this@Outer.call()",
+    ];
+    const doc = Text.of(lines);
+    const types = ["method", "class", "label"];
+    const tok = (line: number, word: string, type: string) => [
+      line,
+      lines[line]!.lastIndexOf(word),
+      word.length,
+      types.indexOf(type),
+      0,
+    ];
+    const data = [
+      tok(0, "Column", "method"),
+      tok(1, "Inject", "class"),
+      tok(1, "Outer", "class"),
+      tok(1, "Inner", "class"),
+      tok(2, "forEach", "label"),
+      tok(3, "Outer", "class"),
+    ].flat();
+    const tokens = { tokenTypes: types, tokenModifiers: [], data };
+    const ranges = semanticRanges(doc, tokens, false, "kotlin", Tree.empty);
+    const classOf = (line: number, word: string) => {
+      const from = doc.line(line + 1).from + lines[line]!.lastIndexOf(word);
+      return ranges.find((r) => r.from === from)?.className;
+    };
+    expect(classOf(0, "Column")).toBe("cm-sem-annotation");
+    expect(classOf(1, "Inject")).toBe("cm-sem-annotation");
+    expect(classOf(1, "Outer")).toBe("cm-sem-annotation");
+    expect(classOf(1, "Inner")).toBe("cm-sem-annotation");
+    expect(classOf(2, "forEach")).toBe("cm-sem-constant");
+    expect(classOf(3, "Outer")).not.toBe("cm-sem-annotation");
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/editor/lsp/semantic/kotlin/index.ts b/src/editor/lsp/semantic/kotlin/index.ts
index 2a0c1a842..9b5aa13b4 100644
--- a/src/editor/lsp/semantic/kotlin/index.ts
+++ b/src/editor/lsp/semantic/kotlin/index.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,49 @@
+import type { Text } from "@codemirror/state";
 import { registerLanguageSemantics, type LanguageSemantics } from "../languages";
 
+const NAME = /[A-Za-z_][\w]*/y;
+
+/**
+ * The names of annotation usages (`@Column`, `@field:Column`, `@Outer.Inner`), as `"from:to"` → `"annotation"`.
+ * An `@` right after a name is a label (`return@forEach`, `this@Outer`, `loop@`), not an annotation.
+ */
+function annotationNames(doc: Text): Map<string, string> {
+  const out = new Map<string, string>();
+  const text = doc.toString();
+  for (let at = text.indexOf("@"); at >= 0; at = text.indexOf("@", at + 1)) {
+    if (/[\w`]/.test(text[at - 1] ?? "")) continue;
+    let pos = at + 1;
+    const name = () => {
+      NAME.lastIndex = pos;
+      const m = NAME.exec(text);
+      return m ? { from: pos, to: pos + m[0].length } : null;
+    };
+    let first = name();
+    // A use-site target (`@field:`, `@get:`, `@file:`) precedes the annotation's name.
+    if (first && text[first.to] === ":" && text[first.to + 1] !== ":") {
+      pos = first.to + 1;
+      first = name();
+    }
+    for (let part = first; part;) {
+      out.set(`${part.from}:${part.to}`, "annotation");
+      if (text[part.to] !== ".") break;
+      pos = part.to + 1;
+      part = name();
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
 const kotlinSemantics: LanguageSemantics = {
-  tokenClasses({ type, modifiers, classes }) {
+  symbolKinds: (_tree, doc) => annotationNames(doc),
+  tokenClasses({ type, modifiers, kind, classes }) {
+    // JetBrains Kotlin LSP reports an annotation usage as a constructor call (`method`);
+    // IDEA colours the name as an annotation (Metadata), like its `@`.
+    if (kind === "annotation" && type !== "label") {
+      classes.length = 0;
+      classes.push("cm-sem-annotation");
+      return;
+    }
     if (type === "operator" && modifiers.includes("declaration")) classes.push("cm-sem-function");
     // JetBrains Kotlin LSP uses `modification` for mutable declarations and references.
     if ((type === "variable" || type === "property" || type === "parameter") && modifiers.includes("modification"))