"Text Size" setting applies inconsistently across chat elements

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

As of Cursor v3.5.33 (likely an earlier change), the chat font size was increased. Related closed post: V3.5.17 - Chat font size seems to be bigger than code

According to Cursor staff, it’s intentional. Fair enough. However, I prefer the slightly smaller font from before. Selecting the next size down causes a real inconsistency. Some elements shrink, others stay at the larger default size.

For example, elements using default font size: user prompt, thinking text, tool call summaries. The AI message itself is smaller, but looks inconsistent because the neighboring elements don’t respect the font size.

Furthermore, the size presets aren’t granular enough. Dropping a level leaves the text too small compared to the earlier version’s small font.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Change the “Text Size” setting to “Small”
  2. Observe inconsistencies in the chat window.

Expected Behavior

The “Text Size” setting should consistently affect all relevant elements.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Version Information

Version: 3.5.33
Commit: aac81804b986d739acab348ed96b8bea6e83cc50
Date: 2026-05-22T06:47:48.039Z
Layout: editor
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Cursor/3.5.33 Chrome/142.0.7444.265 Electron/39.8.1 Safari/537.36

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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This is a known bug. The “Text Size” setting currently only scales the AI response text, but doesn’t apply to user prompts, thinking indicators, tool call summaries, or code blocks. So setting it to “Small” creates exactly the inconsistency you’re describing.

Our team is aware and this is being tracked. Unfortunately there’s no clean workaround right now — the setting was designed to scale everything uniformly, but it doesn’t yet.

In the meantime, the only way to uniformly scale all chat elements is the global zoom level (Ctrl + +/-), though that affects the entire IDE.

I appreciate you filing this with the detailed screenshot and repro steps.