Fascinate Inline: add source block to METADATA.pb

- Repo: librefonts/fascinateinline
- Commit: 0319622b
- Config: none
- Status: missing_config
- Confidence: HIGH

diff --git a/ofl/fascinateinline/METADATA.pb b/ofl/fascinateinline/METADATA.pb
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+++ b/ofl/fascinateinline/METADATA.pb
@@ -15,3 +15,7 @@ fonts {
 subsets: "menu"
 subsets: "latin"
 subsets: "latin-ext"
+source {
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/librefonts/fascinateinline"
+  commit: "0319622bad0ad42aae026ce7b00cd2f8ef64e658"
+}

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+# Investigation Report: Fascinate Inline
+
+## Family Details
+
+- **Family name**: Fascinate Inline
+- **Designer**: Brian J. Bonislawsky / Astigmatic (AOETI)
+- **License**: OFL
+- **Category**: Display
+- **Date added to Google Fonts**: 2011-12-07
+- **Font styles**: Regular (single weight)
+- **Font version**: 1.000
+
+## Upstream Repository
+
+- **URL**: https://github.com/librefonts/fascinateinline
+- **Commit**: `0319622bad0ad42aae026ce7b00cd2f8ef64e658` (only commit; "update .travis.yml", 2014-10-17)
+- **Branch**: master
+- **Repo created**: 2014-07-16
+- **Last pushed**: 2014-10-17
+- **Status**: Accessible, not archived
+
+The librefonts organization (created 2013-10-20) hosts this repo. It contains a single commit by hash3g, which set up the repo with source files and a Travis CI configuration. This is not the original author's repository but rather a mirror/archive created by the librefonts project.
+
+## Source Files
+
+The repository contains only legacy source formats:
+
+### VFB files (FontLab Studio proprietary, in `src/`):
+- `FascinateInline-Regular-OTF.vfb` -- merged contours, OTF-optimized
+- `FascinateInline-Regular-TTF.vfb` -- TrueType outlines with hinting
+
+Note: Unlike the Fascinate repo, this one has only 2 VFB files (no "original source with contour overlaps" variant).
+
+### TTX dumps (XML, in root and `src/`):
+- Multiple per-table TTX files for both TTF and OTF versions
+
+### No gftools-buildable sources:
+- No `.glyphs`, `.glyphx`, `.ufo`, `.designspace`, or `.sfd` files
+- No `config.yaml` or `sources.yaml`
+
+## Binary File Analysis
+
+The `FascinateInline-Regular.ttf` in google/fonts has been unchanged since the initial commit (`90abd17b4`, 2015-03-07, by Dave Crossland). The font was originally added to Google Fonts on 2011-12-07, predating the current google/fonts repository.
+
+- **File size**: 59,604 bytes
+- **MD5**: `df7133c9949bd53157082e1e77a6f735`
+- **Font created date (head table)**: 2011-12-01 04:49:00
+- **Font modified date (head table)**: 2011-11-30 22:08:40
+
+## google/fonts Commit History (ofl/fascinateinline/)
+
+1. `90abd17b4` (2015-03-07) -- Initial commit (Dave Crossland) -- added all files
+2. `480630de3` -- Tentative update to METADATA.pb textprotos
+3. `27f377ab0` -- Update copyright field in METADATA.pb
+4. `883939708` -- Remove METADATA.json files
+5. `633ebadbf` -- Add language support metadata (#4160)
+6. `28b492c0f` / `c6307ba83` / `701bd391b` -- Language metadata rollback/redo (#4677, #4706)
+7. `6bda16478` -- Format HTML with new html formatter
+
+The TTF binary was never modified after the initial commit.
+
+## METADATA.pb Status
+
+The current METADATA.pb on main has no `source { }` block. A source block was prepared on branch `sources_info_2026-02-25` (commit `9a14639f3`) pointing to `librefonts/fascinateinline` at commit `0319622`, but it has not been merged.
+
+## Config Assessment
+
+**No config.yaml is possible.** The upstream repo only has VFB sources, which are FontLab Studio proprietary binary files. These cannot be processed by gftools-builder or fontc. There is no way to create a config.yaml for this family without first converting the sources to an open format (.glyphs, .ufo, or .designspace).
+
+## Relationship to Fascinate
+
+Fascinate and Fascinate Inline are companion typefaces designed together by Brian J. Bonislawsky. They share:
+- The same copyright notice and OFL license (both names reserved together in the OFL.txt found in google/fonts)
+- The same creation date (2011-12-01, within minutes of each other per head table timestamps)
+- The same date added to Google Fonts (2011-12-07)
+- The same Art Deco design language, with the Inline version featuring decorative inline strokes
+
+Despite being companion faces, they are maintained in separate librefonts repositories (`librefonts/fascinate` and `librefonts/fascinateinline`).
+
+## Designer Information
+
+Brian J. Bonislawsky operates as Astigmatic (AOETI). Website: http://www.astigmatic.com/. Email: astigma@astigmatic.com. He is a prolific contributor to Google Fonts with many display typefaces.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+- **Repository URL**: https://github.com/librefonts/fascinateinline
+- **Commit**: `0319622bad0ad42aae026ce7b00cd2f8ef64e658` (only commit in repo)
+- **Config**: none (VFB-only sources, not buildable with gftools-builder)
+- **Status**: complete (source block can be added, but no config.yaml is possible)
+- **Confidence**: HIGH -- the librefonts repo is the only known upstream, and the commit is the only commit in the repo. The VFB sources match the font's original creation date (2011).
+
+No further action is possible regarding config.yaml without source format conversion by the original designer.