# Investigation: Krona One
-## Summary
+**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
+
+## Source Repository
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
-| Family Name | Krona One |
-| Slug | krona-one |
-| License Dir | ofl |
-| Repository URL | unknown |
-| Commit Hash | unknown |
-| Config YAML | none |
-| Status | missing_url |
-| Confidence | LOW |
+| **Repository** | [https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg](https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg) |
+| **Commit** | `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6` |
+| **Source path** | `kronaone/src/` |
+| **Buildable** | No — legacy formats only (.vfb/.sfd) |
+
+The font sources are in the **googlefontdirectory-hg** monorepo, a git mirror of the original Google Code Mercurial repository (`code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory`) that was the canonical host for Google Fonts from 2010 to 2013.
-## Source Data (METADATA.pb)
+### Source files (5)
-```
-No source block
-```
+| File | Format | Notes |
+|------|--------|-------|
+| `KronaOne-Regular.vfb` | FontLab VFB | Proprietary format, not buildable with gftools |
+| `KronaOne-Regular-OTF.sfd` | FontForge SFD | Open format, not buildable with gftools-builder |
+| `KronaOne-Regular-TTF.sfd` | FontForge SFD | Open format, not buildable with gftools-builder |
+| `KronaOne-Regular.otf` | OpenType binary | Compiled font, not a design source |
+| `METADATA_comments.txt` | Metadata | Not a design source |
+
+The source directory contains legacy VFB (FontLab) and SFD (FontForge) files. These are original design sources but are not compatible with the gftools-builder pipeline.
## Investigation
-The METADATA.pb for Krona One has no `source` block. The font was added in the "Initial commit" (`90abd17b4`) of the google/fonts repository.
+The METADATA.pb has no `source` block. The font was added in the initial commit (`90abd17b4`) of the google/fonts repository.
The copyright notice reads: "Copyright (c) 2011, Sorkin Type Co (www.sorkintype.com eben@eyebytes.com) with Reserved Font Name 'Krona'."
-The DESCRIPTION.en_us.html credits "Sorkin Type Co" and mentions the source files were available from "Google Code" (http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/), which is no longer available.
-
-The cached repository at `upstream_repos/fontc_crater_cache/librefonts/kronaone` contains TTX source files:
-- `KronaOne-Regular.ttf.*` (TTX dumps)
-- No Glyphs, UFO, or other editable source formats
+The DESCRIPTION.en_us.html credits "Sorkin Type Co" and mentions the source files were available from "Google Code" (http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/), which is no longer available. The FONTLOG.txt confirms the Sorkin Type Co origin with contact email `sorkineben@gmail.com`.
-The FONTLOG.txt confirms the Sorkin Type Co origin with contact email `sorkineben@gmail.com`. No upstream GitHub repository was found in the cache. The original source was on Google Code, which has been shut down.
+A cached repository exists at `upstream_repos/fontc_crater_cache/librefonts/kronaone` containing only TTX dumps. The googlefontdirectory-hg monorepo preserves the more complete VFB and SFD design sources that the librefonts mirror did not retain. The original Google Code hosting is defunct.
## Conclusion
-The font is an old sans-serif from 2012 with no tracked upstream repository. The original sources were on Google Code (now defunct). The librefonts cache contains only TTX dumps. No `config.yaml` is possible with the current sources. This family needs further investigation to find if sources were migrated from Google Code to GitHub.
+The googlefontdirectory-hg monorepo contains original design sources in legacy formats (VFB, SFD), but these are not buildable with gftools-builder. The original Google Code hosting is defunct, and no upstream GitHub repository is known for this family.