Ember Cursor Kit 2 is a Anime-themed Windows cursor pack by Imran Khoury, originally released under CC0 1.0. It ships as a folder of native .cur and .ani files designed to drop straight into Mouse Properties → Pointers without any third-party installer.
The pack covers the standard Windows cursor roles: Normal Select, Help Select, Working In Background, Busy, Precision Select, Text Select, Handwriting, Unavailable, the four resize cursors, Move, Alternate Select, and Link Select. The default arrow and the link-pointer hand are tinted in the Anime accent color so they read clearly on both dark and light wallpapers, and the animated busy spinner keeps the same visual language without becoming distracting during long renders or compiles. The keywords pulled from the original listing include ember, Anime, cursor, which is a fair shorthand for the kind of mood this pack tries to set.
What sets Ember Cursor Kit 2 apart from a generic 'dark mode' cursor pack is the attention to state contrast. The Busy and Working In Background animations use a different color from the Normal Select arrow, so you can tell at a glance whether the system is waiting on you or you're waiting on the system — a tiny piece of feedback that the default Windows cursors handle inconsistently. The Precision crosshair is offset properly so the actual click point falls on the intersection rather than the visual center, which matters more than people realize when you're using a tablet, doing pixel work in Aseprite, or measuring distances in CAD.
The pack works on every supported version of Windows — 7, 8.1, 10, and 11 (including the recent 24H2 update on Windows 11) — because the underlying cursor format hasn't changed since the late 1990s. It will also survive a remote desktop session: the cursor is rendered by the OS compositor, not by individual applications, so your scheme follows you into RDP, VNC, Parsec, and anything else that paints to the desktop. The only place you'll see the default Windows pointer reappear is inside fullscreen games or apps that explicitly draw their own cursor — that's a choice the application is making, not Windows ignoring your scheme.
Because Ember Cursor Kit 2 is published under CC0 1.0, you can also bundle it into your own work — a Windows skin pack, a streaming overlay, a small commercial app — as long as you respect the attribution rules of that license. Font Loft's licensing page spells out exactly what each accepted license requires; for CC0 1.0 specifically the short version is: keep the original credit, don't strip the artist's name out, and you're done.
For a wider read on how this style of pack fits into a Windows desktop personalization workflow, see our notes on the Font Loft catalog and the licensing page for redistribution rules.
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