Visual accessibility

Feature request for product/service

Chat

Describe the request

Chat text is only plain or pure-white bold. There is no softer emphasis and no way to tint a word. For vestibular migraine, the white bold jumps and is hard to read. A text style with the same weight as the body, or a muted color, would help.
Thank’u <3

Hi @Lucia_Cano, there isn’t a setting yet to make bold text in chat lighter or a different color. Bold always uses the same color as the rest of the text, just at a heavier weight.

In the meantime, in the editor window you should be able to soften all chat text (bold included) by lowering the theme’s text color. Open the Command Palette, run Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON) and add:

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
  "editor.foreground": "#B4B4B4"
}

Any gray that feels comfortable works. It also dims plain text in the editor, so you may want to adjust it. The Agents Window doesn’t offer a text color option at the moment.

You can also add a User Rule (Cursor Settings → Rules) asking the agent to avoid bold in its answers, which should cut down how often it appears.