diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e851723..b3e2f79 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Contributions are welcome.
 | Bracketed Paste                |  ✅   |    ✅    |    ❌     |
 | Kitty Keyboard                 |  ✅   |    ✅    |    ✅     |
 | Styled Underlines              |  ✅   |    ✅    |    ✅     |
-| Mouse Shapes (OSC 22)          |  ✅   | planned  |    ❌     |
+| Mouse Shapes (OSC 22)          |  ✅   |    ✅    |    ❌     |
 | System Clipboard (OSC 52)      |  ✅   | planned  |    ❌     |
 | System Notifications (OSC 9)   |  ✅   |    ✅    |    ❌     |
 | System Notifications (OSC 777) |  ✅   |    ✅    |    ❌     |
diff --git a/src/InternalScreen.zig b/src/InternalScreen.zig
index 02d7f10..c75e770 100644
--- a/src/InternalScreen.zig
+++ b/src/InternalScreen.zig
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ const std = @import("std");
 const assert = std.debug.assert;
 const Style = @import("cell.zig").Style;
 const Cell = @import("cell.zig").Cell;
+const Shape = @import("Mouse.zig").Shape;
 
 const log = std.log.scoped(.internal_screen);
 
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ cursor_row: usize = 0,
 cursor_col: usize = 0,
 cursor_vis: bool = false,
 
+mouse_shape: Shape = .default,
+
 /// sets each cell to the default cell
 pub fn init(alloc: std.mem.Allocator, w: usize, h: usize) !InternalScreen {
     var screen = InternalScreen{};
diff --git a/src/Mouse.zig b/src/Mouse.zig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99aa0eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Mouse.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/// A mouse event
+pub const Mouse = @This();
+
+pub const Shape = enum {
+    default,
+    text,
+    pointer,
+    help,
+    progress,
+    wait,
+    @"ew-resize",
+    @"ns-resize",
+    cell,
+};
diff --git a/src/Screen.zig b/src/Screen.zig
index 16920a4..d87b6b5 100644
--- a/src/Screen.zig
+++ b/src/Screen.zig
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ const std = @import("std");
 const assert = std.debug.assert;
 
 const Cell = @import("cell.zig").Cell;
+const Shape = @import("Mouse.zig").Shape;
 
 const log = std.log.scoped(.screen);
 
@@ -18,6 +19,8 @@ cursor_vis: bool = false,
 
 unicode: bool = false,
 
+mouse_shape: Shape = .default,
+
 pub fn init(alloc: std.mem.Allocator, w: usize, h: usize) !Screen {
     var self = Screen{
         .buf = try alloc.alloc(Cell, w * h),
diff --git a/src/ctlseqs.zig b/src/ctlseqs.zig
index 874223e..4b66da1 100644
--- a/src/ctlseqs.zig
+++ b/src/ctlseqs.zig
@@ -84,3 +84,4 @@ pub const osc8 = "\x1b]8;{s};{s}\x1b\\";
 pub const osc8_clear = "\x1b]8;;\x1b\\";
 pub const osc9_notify = "\x1b]9;{s}\x1b\\";
 pub const osc777_notify = "\x1b]777;notify;{s};{s}\x1b\\";
+pub const osc22_mouse_shape = "\x1b]22;{s}\x1b\\";
diff --git a/src/main.zig b/src/main.zig
index b6f1d4e..1e760f7 100644
--- a/src/main.zig
+++ b/src/main.zig
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ pub fn init(comptime EventType: type, opts: Options) !Vaxis(EventType) {
 test {
     _ = @import("GraphemeCache.zig");
     _ = @import("Key.zig");
+    _ = @import("Mouse.zig");
     _ = @import("Options.zig");
     _ = @import("Parser.zig");
     _ = @import("Screen.zig");
diff --git a/src/vaxis.zig b/src/vaxis.zig
index 3f559ae..96f971e 100644
--- a/src/vaxis.zig
+++ b/src/vaxis.zig
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ const InternalScreen = @import("InternalScreen.zig");
 const Window = @import("Window.zig");
 const Options = @import("Options.zig");
 const Style = @import("cell.zig").Style;
-const strWidth = @import("ziglyph").display_width.strWidth;
 const gwidth = @import("gwidth.zig");
+const Shape = @import("Mouse.zig").Shape;
 
 /// Vaxis is the entrypoint for a Vaxis application. The provided type T should
 /// be a tagged union which contains all of the events the application will
@@ -458,6 +458,13 @@ pub fn Vaxis(comptime T: type) type {
                 );
                 _ = try tty.write(ctlseqs.show_cursor);
             }
+            if (self.screen.mouse_shape != self.screen_last.mouse_shape) {
+                try std.fmt.format(
+                    tty.buffered_writer.writer(),
+                    ctlseqs.osc22_mouse_shape,
+                    .{@tagName(self.screen.mouse_shape)},
+                );
+            }
         }
 
         fn enableKittyKeyboard(self: *Self, flags: Key.KittyFlags) !void {
@@ -510,6 +517,11 @@ pub fn Vaxis(comptime T: type) type {
             _ = try self.tty.?.write(seq);
             try self.tty.?.flush();
         }
+
+        /// set the mouse shape
+        pub fn setMouseShape(self: *Self, shape: Shape) void {
+            self.screen.mouse_shape = shape;
+        }
     };
 }