I found this thread via a Google search after encountering the same thing. Weird jagged font rendering for the Cursor Gothic font. Seeing this on Chrome 142.0.7444.162 (latest at the time of writing) on Ubuntu 24.04.
When opening any Cursor webpage (I’ve tested Firefox and Chrome both in regular and private mode) the fonts are not rendered properly. It looks like the font is placed on top of a carnival ride and it’s very annoying to read.
The problem goes away by zooming in. For me, it’s 170% zoom on Firefox.
Probably relevant; I have a 2k Screen with 100% scaling (not the 125 usually suggested by OSs). And, my default font size is 10pt (I like to have a lot of space on my screen)
Steps to Reproduce
Open any Cursor Webpage. Anyone in my experience has this issue.
I’ve been in contact with the artist Mr Clasen that made the font and after being alerted to the situation he managed to find the problem with some back and forth between us.
The TL;DR is:
There’s two versions of the Cursor Gothic font, one has TrueType Hinting, one has OpenType Hinting. The OpenType version is older and is the one that looks ugly since the hinting is way less advanced, the newer TrueType font is rendered properly everywhere. All websites of Cursor at some point used the OTF font. The main page, cursor.com, has since been updated to the TTF font but not every service like this forum or the login mask has been updated. This leads to inconsistent font rendering with it being a bit of a gamble if you have a service that has the newer or older fonts.
I really hope the Mr Clasen has an email to Cursor that does not end up at an LLM such that this issue is fixed quickly.
And as a personal side note, I find it very disappointing that a company that prides itself on being at the edge of what’s useful and possible cannot seem to care enough about their own services enough to fix a bug. I doubt that this would have been resolved in a timely manner if Mr Clasen hadn’t figured out the problem as I was not able to do so within a day.
Enjoy the improved font rendering (hopefully soon).
I’ve updated the fonts on the forum to the same versions found on cursor.com (1.107 → 1.108). Can you hard refresh the forum and let me know if it’s fixed?
