subsets: "latin"
classifications: "DISPLAY"
classifications: "HANDWRITING"
+source {
+ repository_url: "https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg"
+ commit: "52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6"
+}
# The Girl Next Door — Upstream Source Investigation
**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
-**Date**: 2026-03-12
+**Date**: 2026-03-25
**Investigator**: AI agent (Claude) under guidance of @felipesanches
-## Summary
+## Source Repository
-No canonical upstream repository with UFO or Glyphs sources was found for The Girl Next Door. The font is a handwriting typeface by Kimberly Geswein. No GitHub account for the designer was found (a search for kimberlygeswein returned a 404). GitHub-wide searches returned no relevant results.
+Source files were found in the **googlefontdirectory-hg** monorepo at commit `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6`, under the path `thegirlnextdoor/src/`.
-## Searches Performed
+### Source Files
+
+- **VFB (FontLab)**: TheGirlNextDoor.vfb
+- **SFD (FontForge)**: TheGirlNextDoor-TTF.sfd
+
+Sources are in VFB (FontLab, proprietary) and SFD (FontForge) formats, neither of which is buildable with gftools-builder.
+
+## Investigation Details
- github.com/kimberlygeswein — not found (404)
- GitHub search: "kimberly geswein girl next door font" — no results
- github.com/googlefonts — no matching repository found
-
-## Conclusion
-
-No source repository with UFO or Glyphs sources was located. No source block was added to METADATA.pb.