## Recent upstream/main activity (post-investigation)
-Several commits between 2026-02-11 and 2026-02-20 made non-source-block edits to METADATA.pb. None of them touch the `source { ... }` block, so the `repository_url`, `commit`, `config_yaml`, and `branch` fields are unchanged from the original investigation.
+Several commits between 2026-02-09 and 2026-02-20 made non-source-block edits to METADATA.pb. None of them touch the `source { ... }` block, so the `repository_url`, `commit`, `config_yaml`, and `branch` fields are unchanged from the original investigation.
### 2026-02-20: minisite URL corrections
- **2026-02-20** — Emma Marichal, commit [`0a62c3fdd`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/0a62c3fdd) ("Update minisite URL in METADATA.pb"): replaced `https://typetrends.monotype.com/fr/peace-conflict` with `https://www.monotype.com/type-trends/peace-conflict/` (host migration from `typetrends.monotype.com` to `www.monotype.com`).
- **2026-02-20** — Emma Marichal, commit [`dbc81e3cf`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/dbc81e3cf) ("Fix minisite URL in METADATA.pb — Updated minisite URL to remove trailing slash"): trimmed the trailing slash, leaving `https://www.monotype.com/type-trends/peace-conflict`.
-### 2026-02-11: sample-text padding adjustments
+### 2026-02-11: category change + sample-text padding adjustments
-Three Emma Marichal commits on 2026-02-11 tweaked the whitespace-padded `styles` and `tester` sample-text fields (used by the Google Fonts catalog UI for sentence-length reference strings). None of these changes affect glyphs or the source block:
+Four Emma Marichal commits on 2026-02-11 worked on family classification and sample-text padding. None affect glyphs or the source block:
-- **2026-02-11** — commit [`dfaa39fce`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/dfaa39fce) ("Update styles and tester fields in METADATA.pb"): widened both `styles` and `tester` blank lengths.
+- **2026-02-11** — commit [`ddd69eee5`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/ddd69eee5) ("Change font category and classifications to DISPLAY"): re-categorised the family — `category: "SANS_SERIF"` → `category: "DISPLAY"`, and `classifications: "SYMBOLS"` → `classifications: "DISPLAY"`.
+- **2026-02-11** — commit [`dfaa39fce`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/dfaa39fce) ("Update styles and tester fields in METADATA.pb"): widened both `styles` and `tester` blank lengths (sample-text reference strings used by the Google Fonts catalog UI).
- **2026-02-11** — commit [`3c9cd4f9e`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/3c9cd4f9e) ("Update styles and tester fields in METADATA.pb"): re-balanced the lengths between `styles` and `tester`.
- **2026-02-11** — commit [`8f6e3f9df`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/8f6e3f9df) ("Update tester field in METADATA.pb"): shortened the `tester` blank length.
-These three commits all landed within minutes of each other (PR-iteration tweaks). The final state of the fields after the third commit is what HEAD reflects today.
+The three padding commits all landed within minutes of each other (PR-iteration tweaks). The final state of the fields after the last commit is what HEAD reflects today.
+
+### 2026-02-09: tester field formatting
+
+- **2026-02-09** — Emma Marichal, commit [`f6d35fe21`](https://github.com/google/fonts/commit/f6d35fe21) ("Fix tester field formatting in METADATA.pb"): corrected the formatting of the `tester` field (likely a quoting/whitespace fix in the protobuf text representation).