**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
**Date**: 2026-03-12
-## Repository
+## Source Repository
-- **Primary upstream (librefonts mirror)**: https://github.com/librefonts/novamono
+- **Repository**: [googlefontdirectory-hg](https://github.com/nicholasgross/googlefontdirectory-hg) (Mercurial-to-Git conversion of the original Google Font Directory)
+- **Commit**: `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6`
+- **Source path**: `novamono/src/`
+
+### Source Files in googlefontdirectory-hg
+
+- `NovaMono.sfd` — FontForge source file (primary editable source)
+- `NovaMono.png` — specimen image
+- `METADATA_comments.txt` — metadata notes (not a source file)
+
+The `.sfd` (FontForge) format is the only design source. This format is not buildable with gftools-builder.
+
+## Additional Repository Information
+
+- **Librefonts mirror**: https://github.com/librefonts/novamono
- Branch: `master`
- Latest commit: `33c70f6f3fb14b38512b00b6bc36004a227f7fbc` (2014-10-17, "update .travis.yml")
- Status: Frozen since 2014; not archived but no activity since then.
- **Open Font Library**: https://fontlibrary.org (listed as source in original FONTLOG).
-## Source Files
-
-The `librefonts/novamono` repo contains:
-- `src/NovaMono.sfd` — FontForge source file (primary editable source)
-- `NovaMono.ttf.*.ttx` — TTX-decomposed TTF tables (generated artifact)
-- `menusubset.ff` — FontForge script for menu subset generation
-- `src/NovaMono.png` — specimen image
-- `src/VERSIONS.txt`
-- `METADATA.json`, `FONTLOG.txt`, `OFL.txt`, `DESCRIPTION.en_us.html`
-
-The `.sfd` file is the authoritative source. Nova Mono also has a `menusubset.ff` script not present in the other Nova family repos.
-
## Build System
-The repo uses the legacy `fontbakery-build.py` pipeline (circa 2014), driven by a `.travis.yml` CI config. This system is obsolete. No `Makefile` or modern build script is present.
-
-## config.yaml Status
-
-No `config.yaml` exists in the `librefonts/novamono` repo or in `ofl/novamono/` in google/fonts. One would need to be created for any rebuild attempt.
+The librefonts repo uses the legacy `fontbakery-build.py` pipeline (circa 2014), driven by a `.travis.yml` CI config. This system is obsolete. No `Makefile` or modern build script is present. No `config.yaml` exists.
## Notes
- The Google Fonts binary (`NovaMono.ttf`) corresponds to version 1.2 (February 2011) — the last release before development was halted.
-- Nova Mono was officially discontinued by the designer and is not part of the active wmk69/Nova repo. The `librefonts/novamono` repo is the only available source of record.
+- Nova Mono was officially discontinued by the designer and is not part of the active wmk69/Nova repo. The librefonts mirror and googlefontdirectory-hg are the only available sources of record.
- Nova Mono has broader Unicode coverage than the other Nova fonts: full Greek, mathematical operators, arrows, currency, etc.
- Designer: Wojciech Kalinowski (wmk69), wmk69@o2.pl.
-- Confidence in source identification: **High** — the `librefonts` repo is the known Google Fonts upstream mirror and the commit matches what was previously recorded.
+- Confidence in source identification: **High** — the SFD source in googlefontdirectory-hg matches the librefonts mirror and the Google Fonts binary.