V3.5.17 - Chat font size seems to be bigger than code

[Mihai_Cracan]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Just updated to v3.5.17

Chat font size seems quite bigger than the last version, (had 3.4.x before), and also bigger than the code font size.

MacOS

Version: 3.5.17
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: d5b2fc092e16007956c9e5047f76097b9e626ca0
Date: 2026-05-20T02:43:31.559Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

Steps to Reproduce

Open Cursor v3.5.17 and just see.

Expected Behavior

Chat font size should have the same size as the code, file tree and everything else. (only Chat font size seems different, bigger)

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.5.17
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: d5b2fc092e16007956c9e5047f76097b9e626ca0
Date: 2026-05-20T02:43:31.559Z
Layout: editor
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[Mihai_Cracan]

I used more this version and yes, everything inside the chat is definitely bigger.

The way it writes the model name, messages.

Even compared to the file list from within the Chat, when we open Review file list from there.

[kevinn (Kevin Neilson)]

Hi @Mihai_Cracan, Thanks for the post! This is an intentional upgrade to align text size across our product surface, but it’s easy to change it if you’d like! You can do so by going to Cursor Settings → Agents → Text Size and change it from Default to Small.

[Mihai_Cracan]

Thank you for your reply!

To be honest I tried it, but the font size was all over the places

Messages were smaller while the rest of UI being still large.

I understand the direction - but maybe this can be improved.

It is always a struggle when things that really impact your experience and were just great before keeps changing in a wrong direction.

It would be nice if the overall font size maybe gets synced with the code, or maybe a settings to do so.

Thank you!

[Mihai_Cracan]

@kevinn @deanrie

Or maybe some even better feedback:

I am literally inches away of embracing the Agents Window.

I only miss 2 things there:

1) importing theme from VSCode → or at least the ability to make the color a bit lighter → maybe if alongside with Hue we could control a bit the Lightness → attached a screenshot below with Agents Window on top and VSCode Cursor behind → as you can see the VSCode Cursor theme is a bit lighter → I am working a lot and my eyes start hurting if there is so much contrast (like Agents Window bg is too dark)

2) Agent Review → the ability to have the extra layer (on top of Git) - to validate changes step by step is essential for me when delivering production code for clients.

Please bring Agent Review into Agents Window and the possibility to make the bg color a bit lighter (if not importing VSCode themes) → and for me it is enough to switch to Agents Window.

Thank you!

[romil8jain (romil)]

+1 seeing the same issue. Font size small is much smaller than the font size before the default font size before the update. And default is too big.

[romil8jain (romil)]

size is also inconsistent within the agent tab, where text i write is big and the text by the agent is small. i hope we just get the old font size back..

[kevinn (Kevin Neilson)]

Hi @Mihai_Cracan (and @romil8jain — thanks for the additional report),

You’re right, and I appreciate the detail. After digging in, I confirmed what you’re seeing: the Text Size option in Cursor Settings → Agents → Text Size currently only resizes the assistant’s prose — not your own messages or the surrounding chat UI (model picker, tool calls, pills, status text). That’s why Small felt inconsistent for both of you. Sorry about that !

In the meantime, the best workaround is window zoom where zooming the window scales the chat uniformly (your messages, the assistant’s, and the chrome together):

• Press Cmd - (macOS) / Ctrl - (Windows/Linux) from the chat to step it down, or
• Ask Cursor to Add "window.zoomLevel": -0.5 to your settings.json for a persistent value (try -0.25 to -1 to taste). Note this scales the whole IDE, not only the chat.

On your Glass feedback, @Mihai_Cracan we are working to bring themes to the Agents Window! It’s currently in early beta - we have access to themes internally but it hasn’t rolled out publicly yet.

[Mihai_Cracan]

That’s great to hear!

@romil8jain Also I am sharing my workaround for font size, similar to what @kevinn proposed.

There are 2 steps:

1) First step I have synchronised visually code size with chat size

VS Code Settings → Editor: Font Size

The goal of this step was to make editor code size as big as Chat (so both will be big now, but same)

P.S. Agents → Text Size - leave it as Default for this process (making it Small makes things worse).

2) Use zoom settings to make everything smaller

After step 1, all the text is bigger, but at least same size.

The goal of step 2 is now to make everything smaller consistently.

There is this VS Code Settings → search for Zoom → it can be set highly specific, based on taste.

In my case I set it to 0.98, I have a really big screen.

Using zoom everything can be scaled very specific (and after step 1 → text should have same size already).