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The Cursor logo

Three asset families, several dimensional treatments, and one naming rule that most write-ups break. Here is what each variant is for and where the official kit lives.

  • Horizontal lockup preferred
  • 2D is the default
  • Call it Cursor

Official brand guidelines

Checked against cursor.com on 25 September 2026

The mark

The Cursor cube mark, dark treatment
Dark treatment
The Cursor cube mark, light treatment
Light treatment

Shown to identify the product. Download production assets from the official archive rather than lifting them from a page like this one.

What is in the kit

Logos

2D is the default. 2.5D exists for larger applications.

Horizontal lockup
The preferred form. Cube and wordmark side by side. Use this unless you have a reason not to.
Vertical lockup
Cube above wordmark. For narrow columns and square-ish spaces where horizontal would shrink too far.
Cube
The mark alone. Correct when the name appears in adjacent text anyway.
Wordmark
The name alone, set in the brand's own type. For contexts where a second mark would clutter.

App icons

2.5D is the default, with 2D and 3D alternatives, in light and dark.

2.5D
The default app icon treatment.
2D
Flat. Better at small sizes and in dense interfaces.
3D
The most dimensional treatment, for large presentation contexts.

Avatars

2D is the default, 2.5D is available, both in light and dark.

Circular
For platforms that crop to a circle, which is most social software.
Square
For platforms that do not crop, where a circular asset would float inside padding.

The naming rule

Cursor's guidelines contain one instruction stated plainly enough that there is no room to interpret it: refer to the product as Cursor. Not Cursor AI. Not Cursor Code.

This matters more than it sounds, because both of the wrong forms are extremely common in third-party writing, and both make the author look like someone who learned about the product from other articles rather than from using it. If you are writing a comparison, a tutorial or a job listing, the single-word name is the whole rule.

Picking the right variant

The defaults cover most cases. Horizontal lockup, 2D, and you are done. The reasons to deviate are structural rather than aesthetic.

  • Narrow space. Vertical lockup, because a horizontal one scaled to fit a sidebar makes the wordmark illegible.
  • The name is already in the text. The cube alone. Repeating the wordmark next to a heading that says Cursor is redundancy, not branding.
  • A logo row of many companies. Usually the horizontal lockup, matched to whatever the rest of the row is doing. Consistency across the row beats fidelity to any single brand's preference.
  • Something large and presentational. This is what 2.5D is documented for. At small sizes the dimensionality just muddies the shape.

Light and dark are not optional

App icons and avatars ship in both, and the reason is legibility rather than taste. The mark is a cube built from contrasting faces, and a dark-treatment asset dropped onto a dark background loses the geometry that makes it recognisable. If your site has a theme toggle, you need both files.

Where the line is

Using a company's logo to identify that company is ordinary and expected: reviews, comparisons, integration directories, conference slides listing your stack. Using it in a way that suggests endorsement, partnership, or that the company made your thing is a different matter entirely.

The practical test is whether a reasonable reader might conclude Cursor was involved. A logo beside the sentence "works with Cursor" is fine. The same logo in your product's own header is not. When in doubt, the terms of service govern and the brand page is the reference.

Asset taxonomy and naming rule read from cursor.com/brand on 25 September 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I download the Cursor logo?
From cursor.com/brand, which offers a single archive containing logos, app icons and avatars in every documented variant. Downloading from the source matters because third-party copies go stale and often contain retired marks.
Which Cursor logo variant should I use?
The horizontal lockup in 2D, unless something specific rules it out. Cursor names horizontal as the preferred lockup and 2D as the default dimension, reserving 2.5D for larger applications.
What is the correct name to use for Cursor?
Cursor. The brand guidelines state it directly: refer to it as Cursor, not Cursor AI and not Cursor Code. This is the rule most third-party articles get wrong, and it is the easiest one to follow.
What is the difference between 2D and 2.5D Cursor logos?
2D is the flat default and is what most uses want. 2.5D adds dimension and is documented as being for larger applications, where the extra depth reads rather than turning into noise at small sizes.
Can I use the Cursor logo on my own website?
Using a company's logo to identify that company, in a review, comparison or integration listing, is ordinary nominative use. Using it in a way that implies endorsement, partnership or authorship is not. Read the brand guidelines and the terms of service before putting it anywhere that might be read as an affiliation.
Is there a Cursor logo in SVG?
Yes. The brand archive contains vector assets, which is what you want for anything that will be rendered at more than one size. Tracing a raster copy from a search result produces a mark that is subtly wrong in ways the company will notice.
What is the Cursor logo actually meant to be?
An isometric cube. The geometry reads as a solid object drawn in two and a half dimensions, which is why the same mark ships in flat, 2.5D and fully three-dimensional treatments rather than only one.

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