+# Stardos Stencil -- Upstream Source Investigation
+
**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
-# Stardos Stencil — Upstream Source Investigation
+## Source Repository
+
+Design sources were found in the **googlefontdirectory-hg** archive (Google Font Directory, Mercurial-era).
+
+- **Repository**: googlefontdirectory-hg
+- **Commit**: `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6`
+- **Source path**: `stardosstencil/src/`
+
+## Source Files
-## Summary
+The source directory contains: 2 VFB files (FontLab, proprietary format); 2 SFD files (FontForge format).
-No canonical upstream repository with UFO or Glyphs sources was found for Stardos Stencil. The only GitHub repository found was a librefonts mirror (`librefonts/stardosstencil`) containing only VFB (FontLab) and SFD (FontForge) sources, which were excluded per policy.
+Neither VFB (FontLab, proprietary) nor SFD (FontForge) formats are supported by gftools-builder. These sources are **not directly buildable** with the current open-source pipeline.
+
+### Key source files
+
+- `StardosStencil-Bold.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `StardosStencil-Regular.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `StardosStencil-Bold-TTF.sfd` (SFD, FontForge)
+- `StardosStencil-Regular-TTF.sfd` (SFD, FontForge)
## Designer
- **librefonts/stardosstencil**: Mirror repository only. The `src/` directory contained `StardosStencil-Regular.vfb`, `StardosStencil-Bold.vfb`, `StardosStencil-Regular-TTF.sfd`, `StardosStencil-Bold-TTF.sfd` — VFB/SFD only, no UFO or Glyphs sources.
- **Vernon Adams GitHub accounts** (`vernnobile`, `vernonadams`, `newtypography`): None contained a Stardos Stencil repository. Vernon Adams' primary font work was at `vernnobile` where he hosted many fonts, but Stardos Stencil was not among them.
- Stardos Stencil was created in 2011, predating the common adoption of version-controlled UFO/Glyphs workflows.
-
-## Conclusion
-
-No source block was added. The font sources only exist as VFB/SFD in a librefonts mirror, which is excluded per the investigation policy (skip librefonts mirrors and VFB/SFD-only repos).