---
version: alpha
name: Cursor
description: Light design system extracted from cursor.com (DOM-true values, Emblematic extractor 0.2.0, 2026-11-12).
colors:
  background: "#F2F1ED"
  surface: "#D9D5CF"
  on-surface: "#26251E"
  on-surface-variant: "#26251E99"
  primary: "#F54E00"
  color-6: "#B6B9BE"
  color-7: "#0101010D"
  color-8: "#FCFCFCDB"
  color-9: "#3A3A3C"
  color-10: "#CAC6BE"
  theme-card-03-hex: "#E6E5E0"
  color-12: "#FCFCFCA6"
  color-13: "#FBFBFB59"
  color-14: "#14141499"
  color-15: "#26251E80"
  color-16: "#0A0A0A0E"
  background-dark: "#1B1913"
  on-surface-dark: "#EDECEC"
  on-surface-variant-dark: "#EDECEC99"
  surface-dark: "#14120B"
  primary-dark: "#F54E00"
  outline-dark: "#EDECEC1A"
typography:
  display-lg:
    fontFamily: Cursor Gothic
    fontSize: 26px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.25
    letterSpacing: -0.012em
  headline-md:
    fontFamily: Cursor Gothic
    fontSize: 14px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
    letterSpacing: 0.01em
  title-md:
    fontFamily: Cursor Gothic
    fontSize: 22px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.3
    letterSpacing: -0.005em
  body-md:
    fontFamily: Cursor Gothic
    fontSize: 16px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.5
  body-sm:
    fontFamily: SF Pro (system-ui)
    fontSize: 13px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.55
  mono-md:
    fontFamily: Berkeley Mono
    fontSize: 12px
    fontWeight: 400
    lineHeight: 1.667
rounded:
  sm: 4px
  md: 8px
  lg: 10px
  full: 9999px
spacing:
  xxs: 2px
  xs: 3px
  sm: 4px
  md: 4.5px
  lg: 5.5px
  xl: 6px
  2xl: 7.5px
  3xl: 8px
  4xl: 10px
  5xl: 12px
  6xl: 13px
  7xl: 15px
  8xl: 16px
  9xl: 17.5px
  container: 1300px
components:
  button-primary:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.on-surface}"
    textColor: "#F7F7F4"
    rounded: "{rounded.full}"
    padding: 12.5px
    height: 43.3px
  button-secondary:
    textColor: "{colors.on-surface}"
    rounded: "{rounded.full}"
    padding: 5.6px
    height: 27.5px
  card:
    backgroundColor: "{colors.background}"
    rounded: "{rounded.sm}"
    padding: 15.9px
---

# Cursor

> Extracted from [https://cursor.com/](https://cursor.com/) on 2026-11-12 by Emblematic. Every value below was read from the rendered DOM (computed styles, `document.fonts`, and the fonts Chrome actually used to paint text), not estimated from pixels. When the YAML front matter and this prose disagree, the YAML wins. Copy values from this file exactly; don't transcribe them from memory. Don't copy logos, imagery, illustrations or marketing copy.

## Overview

Cursor uses a light canvas (#F2F1ED) with a palette led by #F54E00. Type is set in **Cursor Gothic** (display), **SF Pro (system-ui)**, **Berkeley Mono** (mono), with 16px body text. Layout: 1300px container, top-fixed navigation, 11 sections. Built with next.js, tailwind, google-tag-manager, vercel.

## Colors

Area-weighted from painted backgrounds, text and borders on the 1440px light capture. Roles are inferred from usage (largest background, most text, interactive fills). Every hex is an exact computed value; a role marked *unverified* is a best guess that has not passed review, so its canonical token (e.g. `primary`) is left out of the front matter.

| Token | Hex | OKLCH | Role | Share of paint | CSS variable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `background` | `#F2F1ED` | 0.958 0.005 95.1 | bg | 74.6% | `--color-code-bg` |
| `surface` | `#D9D5CF` | 0.874 0.009 78.3 | surface | 4.2% | — |
| `on-surface` | `#26251E` | 0.263 0.013 100.5 | text | 4.1% | `--color-theme-fg` |
| `on-surface-variant` | `#26251E99` (on bg `#787771`) | 0.263 0.013 100.5 | muted | 1.3% | — |
| `primary` | `#F54E00` | 0.652 0.214 38 | accent | 0.21% | `--color-accent` |
| `color-6` | `#B6B9BE` | 0.785 0.008 260.7 | other | 4.2% | — |
| `color-7` | `#0101010D` (on bg `#E6E5E1`) | 0.066 0 101.2 | other | 2.4% | — |
| `color-8` | `#FCFCFCDB` (on bg `#FBFAFA`) | 0.991 0 0 | other | 1.6% | — |
| `color-9` | `#3A3A3C` | 0.349 0.003 286.2 | other | 1.4% | — |
| `color-10` | `#CAC6BE` | 0.828 0.012 84.6 | other | 1.1% | — |
| `theme-card-03-hex` | `#E6E5E0` | 0.921 0.007 97.4 | other | 1.4% | `--color-theme-card-03-hex` |
| `color-12` | `#FCFCFCA6` (on bg `#F9F8F7`) | 0.991 0 0 | other | 1.1% | — |
| `color-13` | `#FBFBFB59` (on bg `#F5F4F2`) | 0.988 0 0 | other | 0.97% | — |
| `color-14` | `#14141499` (on bg `#6D6C6B`) | 0.191 0 0 | other | 0.31% | — |
| `color-15` | `#26251E80` (on bg `#8C8B85`) | 0.263 0.013 100.5 | other | 0.25% | — |
| `color-16` | `#0A0A0A0E` (on bg `#E5E4E1`) | 0.145 0 0 | other | 0.10% | — |

Sparse chromatic highlights (not accents): `#65AFE0`, `#34785C`, `#278DCC`.

Contrast: text on background 13.6:1, muted text 4:1, accent 3.11:1.

Gradients in use: `linear-gradient(oklab(0.263084 -0.00230259 0.0124794 / 0.05) 0%, oklab(0.263084 -0.00230259 0.0124794 / 0.05) 100%), linear-gradient(rgb(242`; `linear-gradient(to top, color(srgb 0.988235 0.988235 0.988235 / 0.92) 0%, color(srgb 0.988235 0.988235 0.988235 / 0.62) 36%, color(srgb 0.98`.

The site responds to `prefers-color-scheme: dark`; the `-dark` tokens hold the dark-mode roles.

## Typography

| Family | Role | Weights | Share of text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **Cursor Gothic** (CSS: `CursorGothic`) | display | 400 | 52.5% | webfont |
| **SF Pro (system-ui)** (CSS: `system-ui`) | body | 400, 500, 600, 700 | 30.5% | system (stack `system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", "Helvetic`, resolved on macos) |
| **Berkeley Mono** (CSS: `berkeleyMono`) | mono | 400, 500, 700 | 14.0% | webfont |
| **Lato** | other | 400, 600 | 2.9% | webfont |

Declared in `@font-face` but not used to paint text on this page: EB Garamond, KaTeX Main, KaTeX SansSerif, Cursor Mono, KaTeX Fraktur, KaTeX Math. Don't treat these as the page's fonts.

Scale (px): 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 26, 36, 72. Effective ratio ≈ 1.285 (close to a major third). Body 16px at line-height 1.5; display 26px with tracking -0.012em. Headings are sentence case. On a 390px viewport the body is 15px and display 24.38px.

## Layout

Spacing has no reliable single base unit; the most used steps are 2, 3, 4, 4.5, 5.5, 6, 7.5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17.5px. Sections open with about 67px of space before their first line of text. Content sits in a 1300px container on a 23-column grid. Text density 0.105 (text area / page area).

Section order (desktop). Kinds below the review threshold are shown as *section*:

1. **nav** (52px, bg #F7F7F4)
2. **hero** — “Cursor is your coding agent for building ambitious software.” (1019px, bg #F7F7F4)
3. **logos** — “Trusted every day by teams that build world-class software” (210px, bg #F7F7F4)
4. **section** — “View Behavior” (1620px, bg #F7F7F4)
5. **section** — “#feature-realtime-sync” (1549px, bg #F7F7F4)
6. **testimonials** — “The new way to build software.” (767px, bg #F7F7F4)
7. **testimonials** — “All Repos” (672px, bg #F7F7F4)
8. **section** — “Changelog” (1028px, bg #F7F7F4)
9. **section** — “Recent highlights” (409px, bg #F7F7F4)
10. **section** — “Try Cursor now.” (346px, bg #F7F7F4)
11. **footer** — “Connect” (526px, bg #F2F1ED)

## Elevation & Depth

Style: elevated. Most used shadows:

- `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14) 0px 28px 70px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 14px 32px 0px`
- `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 22px 70px 4px`
- `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25) 0px 25px 50px -12px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 12px 24px -8px`

## Shapes

Dominant corner radius 4px; radii in use: 4px, 8px, 10px, pill. Borders: hairline (1px).

## Components

- **button-primary**: backgroundColor `#26251E`, textColor `#F7F7F4`, rounded `9999px`, padding `12.5px 21.6px`, height `43.3px`, fontFamily `Cursor Gothic`, fontSize `16px`, fontWeight `400`, border `1px solid #26251E` (e.g. “Download for macOS”)
- **button-secondary**: textColor `#26251E`, rounded `9999px`, padding `5.6px 10.5px`, height `27.5px`, fontFamily `Cursor Gothic`, fontSize `14px`, fontWeight `400`, border `1px solid #26251E33` (e.g. “Contact sales”)
- **card**: rounded `4px`, padding `15.9px`, backgroundColor `#F2F1ED`

## Do's and Don'ts

- Do reserve `#F54E00` for primary actions and highlights; it covers only 0.21% of the painted page.
- Do set body copy in SF Pro (system-ui) at 16px / 1.5.
- Do use Cursor Gothic only for display sizes, not for body text.
- Do tighten large headlines (-0.012em at 26px).
- Don't introduce font weights beyond 400, 500, 600, 700.
- Do keep corners at 4px for most controls, and use the larger radii only for cards and media.
- Don't copy this site's logos, illustrations, photography or copy; use the system, not the brand assets.

## Provenance

Spec v2, extractor 0.2.0. Render quality: **ok**. Vision pass: not run. Fields below confidence 0.7 are hedged or left out above: `color.accent_strategy`, `layout.columns`, `layout.hero`, `layout.section_count`, `space.base`, `space.section_padding_px`. Full per-field provenance is in `spec.json`.