Montserrat font breaks at 9px size

[philipminev]

Montserrat font seems to have issues displaing correctly at 9px size. The top line of the font is blurry/cut.

CSS to reproduce the issue:

body {
font-size: 9px;
font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;
background: white;
color: black;
}

Screenshot:

We have seen this issue getting fixed and then braking again a few times within the last couple of months. Perhaps some updates are causing this. Currently it does not display well under the described conditions.

[m4rc1e]

Thanks for the report. I'll see if I can improve the rendering at low sizes next week.

[philipminev]

Hi Marc, any luck with this issue?

[fitojb]

The main issue is that the Regular style is too thin, of course, causing the family to need aggressive gridfitting/hinting.

[philipminev]

I can only confirm that that font was fine with the above CSS. Something must have change along the way. We are also not sure if this is a Google Fonts or Windows issue, because there are no issues with this CSS on Linux and Mac.

[philipminev]

It has been some time, has anyone manage to reach a conclusion on this issue? Is there hope?

[davelab6]

@emmamarichal as you onboard the SSA update to Montserrat, please work with @m4rc1e to confirm this is fixed in the update :) cc @chrissimpkins

[chrissimpkins]

@emmamarichal @m4rc1e can we confirm that this is addressed in the latest updates?

[m4rc1e]

We'll see if we can fix this when we rehint the SSA family.

[chrissimpkins]

We'll need SSA expansion hinting in this family.

[m4rc1e]

I'm hoping to tackle this issue when I get the SSA expansion work done, which should be done by the end of this quarter.

[chrissimpkins]

@m4rc1e was this fixed with #6923 that launched last month?