From: Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches <juca@members.fsf.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:37:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: thegirlnextdoor: add source metadata from googlefontdirectory-hg
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thegirlnextdoor: add source metadata from googlefontdirectory-hg

Repo: https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg
Commit: 52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6
source block added to METADATA.pb

Assisted by an AI agent (Claude Opus 4.6)
---

diff --git a/ofl/thegirlnextdoor/METADATA.pb b/ofl/thegirlnextdoor/METADATA.pb
index 46298b694..ac1ca85ba 100644
--- a/ofl/thegirlnextdoor/METADATA.pb
+++ b/ofl/thegirlnextdoor/METADATA.pb
@@ -16,3 +16,7 @@ subsets: "menu"
 subsets: "latin"
 classifications: "DISPLAY"
 classifications: "HANDWRITING"
+source {
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg"
+  commit: "52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6"
+}
diff --git a/ofl/thegirlnextdoor/upstream_info.md b/ofl/thegirlnextdoor/upstream_info.md
index 978ccf51a..b2106f183 100644
--- a/ofl/thegirlnextdoor/upstream_info.md
+++ b/ofl/thegirlnextdoor/upstream_info.md
@@ -1,19 +1,22 @@
 # 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.