# Add UI setting for code font size in chat (or revert to old defaults)

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-ui-setting-for-code-font-size-in-chat-or-revert-to-old-defaults/12581>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [August 26, 2024, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-ui-setting-for-code-font-size-in-chat-or-revert-to-old-defaults/12581 "2024-08-26T09:41:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![nuesslerm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/nuesslerm/32/8_2.png) [@nuesslerm](https://forum.cursor.com/u/nuesslerm)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-ui-setting-for-code-font-size-in-chat-or-revert-to-old-defaults/12581/1 "2024-08-26T09:41:03Z")

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I don’t mind the new chat UI update in general, but notably it changed to use my code font settings for displaying code snippets.  
I have quite a large font of 16px, and I have the cursor chat docked to the side so I can interact with it while writing code. In fact that’s the main way Im using cursor.  
The old code font for snippets was hardcoded to a very nice default that allowed me to browse code snippets, but now it’s simply way too large to see anything, unless Im expanding my chat window to take up a lot of screen space.  
Please either change it back to the old default or add a setting to change the cursor code snippet font separately. Please 🙏  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![nuesslerm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/nuesslerm/32/8_2.png) [@nuesslerm](https://forum.cursor.com/u/nuesslerm)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-ui-setting-for-code-font-size-in-chat-or-revert-to-old-defaults/12581/2 "2024-09-01T22:48:03Z")

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ping?  
I don’t think this should be too difficult to implement …

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**Author:** ![wibwob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/wibwob/32/10617_2.png) [@wibwob](https://forum.cursor.com/u/wibwob)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-ui-setting-for-code-font-size-in-chat-or-revert-to-old-defaults/12581/3 "2024-11-02T22:01:51Z")

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anyone? more ways to customise the chat sidebar would be great. i’ve noticed that sometimes my .cursorrules profile manages to infect itsself into the chat UI which is kinda cool… blue text in this example : )

 ![Screenshot 2024-11-02 at 22.01.28](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/2X/d/d1b64241ee702cedd6229f2797209caa8d2f05a5.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/add-ui-setting-for-code-font-size-in-chat-or-revert-to-old-defaults/12581/4 "2026-06-18T10:18:45Z")

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