From: Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches <juca@members.fsf.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:37:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: romanesco: add source metadata from googlefontdirectory-hg
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romanesco: 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)
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diff --git a/ofl/romanesco/METADATA.pb b/ofl/romanesco/METADATA.pb
index 0b634f92c..73913be14 100644
--- a/ofl/romanesco/METADATA.pb
+++ b/ofl/romanesco/METADATA.pb
@@ -15,3 +15,7 @@ fonts {
 subsets: "menu"
 subsets: "latin"
 subsets: "latin-ext"
+source {
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg"
+  commit: "52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6"
+}
diff --git a/ofl/romanesco/upstream_info.md b/ofl/romanesco/upstream_info.md
index cd8b4888b..3fde1fcda 100644
--- a/ofl/romanesco/upstream_info.md
+++ b/ofl/romanesco/upstream_info.md
@@ -5,9 +5,24 @@
 
 ## Source Repository
 
-No canonical upstream repository with UFO or Glyphs sources was found.
+The `googlefontdirectory-hg` monorepo (the historical Google Font Directory Mercurial archive) contains files for this family.
 
-## What Was Done
+- **Repository**: `googlefontdirectory-hg`
+- **Commit**: `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6`
+- **Source path**: `romanesco/src/`
+
+## Source Files
+
+The `romanesco/src/` directory contains design sources in proprietary VFB format only, which cannot be built with gftools-builder:
+
+- **VFB** (FontLab, proprietary format, not buildable with gftools): Romanesco-Regular-OTF.vfb, Romanesco-Regular-TTF.vfb, Romanesco-Regular.vfb
+- **OTF** (compiled binaries, not design sources): Romanesco-Regular.otf
+
+## Buildability
+
+Not buildable with gftools-builder. The VFB sources are in FontLab's proprietary format. Conversion to UFO or Glyphs format would be required before a reproducible build pipeline could be established.
+
+## Investigation Details
 
 GitHub was searched for "Romanesco font Astigmatic" and related terms. The designer is Brian J. Bonislawsky of Astigmatic. No repository was found under any known Astigmatic-related GitHub account (`ASTIGMATIC`, `astigmatic`, `AOETI`).