diff --git a/design/splash-screen.svg b/design/splash-screen.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f86ba60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/design/splash-screen.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
+<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->
+
+<svg
+   width="400"
+   height="200"
+   viewBox="0 0 105.83333 52.916666"
+   version="1.1"
+   id="svg1"
+   inkscape:version="1.3.2 (1:1.3.2+202311252150+091e20ef0f)"
+   sodipodi:docname="splash-screen.svg"
+   inkscape:export-filename="../src/main/resources/images/splash-screen.png"
+   inkscape:export-xdpi="96"
+   inkscape:export-ydpi="96"
+   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
+   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
+   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
+   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
+  <sodipodi:namedview
+     id="namedview1"
+     pagecolor="#505050"
+     bordercolor="#ffffff"
+     borderopacity="1"
+     inkscape:showpageshadow="0"
+     inkscape:pageopacity="0"
+     inkscape:pagecheckerboard="1"
+     inkscape:deskcolor="#505050"
+     inkscape:document-units="px"
+     inkscape:zoom="2.0863221"
+     inkscape:cx="182.37836"
+     inkscape:cy="101.13491"
+     inkscape:window-width="1920"
+     inkscape:window-height="1025"
+     inkscape:window-x="1080"
+     inkscape:window-y="470"
+     inkscape:window-maximized="1"
+     inkscape:current-layer="layer1" />
+  <defs
+     id="defs1" />
+  <g
+     inkscape:label="Layer 1"
+     inkscape:groupmode="layer"
+     id="layer1">
+    <rect
+       style="fill:#354427;stroke-width:1.27;fill-opacity:1"
+       id="rect1"
+       width="105.83333"
+       height="52.916664"
+       x="0"
+       y="0" />
+    <ellipse
+       style="fill:#363636;fill-opacity:1;stroke-width:1.27"
+       id="path1"
+       cx="105.83333"
+       cy="2.2747312"
+       rx="39.789673"
+       ry="24.084095" />
+  </g>
+</svg>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/andrewlalis/perfin/control/StartupSplashScreenController.java b/src/main/java/com/andrewlalis/perfin/control/StartupSplashScreenController.java
index efdc7e8..a998601 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/andrewlalis/perfin/control/StartupSplashScreenController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/andrewlalis/perfin/control/StartupSplashScreenController.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public class StartupSplashScreenController {
                 }
 
                 printlnLater("Perfin initialized. Starting the app now.");
-                Thread.sleep(2000);
+                Thread.sleep(50000);
 
                 Platform.runLater(() -> getSplashStage().setDone());
             } catch (Exception e) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/andrewlalis/perfin/view/SplashScreenStage.java b/src/main/java/com/andrewlalis/perfin/view/SplashScreenStage.java
index 159b0c7..f5fcb90 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/andrewlalis/perfin/view/SplashScreenStage.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/andrewlalis/perfin/view/SplashScreenStage.java
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ package com.andrewlalis.perfin.view;
 import javafx.beans.property.SimpleObjectProperty;
 import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
 import javafx.scene.Scene;
+import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
+import javafx.scene.shape.Rectangle;
+import javafx.stage.Modality;
 import javafx.stage.Stage;
 import javafx.stage.StageStyle;
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/images/splash-screen.png b/src/main/resources/images/splash-screen.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e9c1b8
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/main/resources/images/splash-screen.png differ
diff --git a/src/main/resources/startup-splash-screen.css b/src/main/resources/startup-splash-screen.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39cfecf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/startup-splash-screen.css
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#sceneRoot {
+    -fx-background-image: url("images/splash-screen.png");
+    -fx-background-repeat: stretch;
+    -fx-background-size: 400 200;
+    -fx-background-color: transparent;
+    -fx-padding: 10;
+}
+
+#content {
+    -fx-font-family: monospace;
+    -fx-font-size: small;
+    -fx-background-insets: 0;
+    -fx-background-color: transparent;
+    -fx-border-style: none;
+    -fx-border-color: transparent;
+    -fx-text-fill: white;
+    -fx-padding: 0;
+}
+
+#content .content {
+    -fx-background-color: transparent;
+    -fx-padding: 0;
+}
+
+#content .scroll-pane .viewport {
+    -fx-background-color: transparent;
+}
+
+#content .scroll-pane .content {
+    -fx-background-color: transparent;
+}
diff --git a/src/main/resources/startup-splash-screen.fxml b/src/main/resources/startup-splash-screen.fxml
index 0a55d4d..1b66411 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/startup-splash-screen.fxml
+++ b/src/main/resources/startup-splash-screen.fxml
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
-<?import javafx.geometry.Insets?>
-<?import javafx.scene.control.Label?>
 <?import javafx.scene.control.TextArea?>
 <?import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane?>
-<BorderPane fx:id="sceneRoot" prefHeight="200" prefWidth="400" xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/17.0.2-ea" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1" fx:controller="com.andrewlalis.perfin.control.StartupSplashScreenController">
-    <padding><Insets top="10" bottom="10" left="10" right="10"/></padding>
-    <top>
-        <Label BorderPane.alignment="CENTER_LEFT" style="-fx-font-weight: bold; -fx-font-size: large;">Perfin is starting up...</Label>
-    </top>
-
+<BorderPane
+        fx:id="sceneRoot"
+        prefHeight="200" prefWidth="400"
+        xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/17.0.2-ea"
+        xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1"
+        fx:controller="com.andrewlalis.perfin.control.StartupSplashScreenController"
+        stylesheets="/startup-splash-screen.css"
+>
     <center>
-        <TextArea fx:id="content" wrapText="true" editable="false" style="-fx-font-family: monospace" focusTraversable="false"/>
+        <TextArea fx:id="content" wrapText="true" editable="false" focusTraversable="false"/>
     </center>
-
 </BorderPane>