From: Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:32:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Fascinate Inline: add source block to METADATA.pb X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9673df0b825e09809e2cc732ebadb51b99795288;p=thirdparty%2Fgoogle%2Ffonts.git Fascinate Inline: add source block to METADATA.pb - Repo: librefonts/fascinateinline - Commit: 0319622b - Config: none - Status: missing_config - Confidence: HIGH --- diff --git a/ofl/fascinateinline/METADATA.pb b/ofl/fascinateinline/METADATA.pb index 049e78d1c..e05e4ff57 100644 --- a/ofl/fascinateinline/METADATA.pb +++ b/ofl/fascinateinline/METADATA.pb @@ -15,3 +15,7 @@ fonts { subsets: "menu" subsets: "latin" subsets: "latin-ext" +source { + repository_url: "https://github.com/librefonts/fascinateinline" + commit: "0319622bad0ad42aae026ce7b00cd2f8ef64e658" +} diff --git a/ofl/fascinateinline/upstream_info.md b/ofl/fascinateinline/upstream_info.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3c0d4e34c --- /dev/null +++ b/ofl/fascinateinline/upstream_info.md @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +# Investigation Report: Fascinate Inline + +## Family Details + +- **Family name**: Fascinate Inline +- **Designer**: Brian J. Bonislawsky / Astigmatic (AOETI) +- **License**: OFL +- **Category**: Display +- **Date added to Google Fonts**: 2011-12-07 +- **Font styles**: Regular (single weight) +- **Font version**: 1.000 + +## Upstream Repository + +- **URL**: https://github.com/librefonts/fascinateinline +- **Commit**: `0319622bad0ad42aae026ce7b00cd2f8ef64e658` (only commit; "update .travis.yml", 2014-10-17) +- **Branch**: master +- **Repo created**: 2014-07-16 +- **Last pushed**: 2014-10-17 +- **Status**: Accessible, not archived + +The librefonts organization (created 2013-10-20) hosts this repo. It contains a single commit by hash3g, which set up the repo with source files and a Travis CI configuration. This is not the original author's repository but rather a mirror/archive created by the librefonts project. + +## Source Files + +The repository contains only legacy source formats: + +### VFB files (FontLab Studio proprietary, in `src/`): +- `FascinateInline-Regular-OTF.vfb` -- merged contours, OTF-optimized +- `FascinateInline-Regular-TTF.vfb` -- TrueType outlines with hinting + +Note: Unlike the Fascinate repo, this one has only 2 VFB files (no "original source with contour overlaps" variant). + +### TTX dumps (XML, in root and `src/`): +- Multiple per-table TTX files for both TTF and OTF versions + +### No gftools-buildable sources: +- No `.glyphs`, `.glyphx`, `.ufo`, `.designspace`, or `.sfd` files +- No `config.yaml` or `sources.yaml` + +## Binary File Analysis + +The `FascinateInline-Regular.ttf` in google/fonts has been unchanged since the initial commit (`90abd17b4`, 2015-03-07, by Dave Crossland). The font was originally added to Google Fonts on 2011-12-07, predating the current google/fonts repository. + +- **File size**: 59,604 bytes +- **MD5**: `df7133c9949bd53157082e1e77a6f735` +- **Font created date (head table)**: 2011-12-01 04:49:00 +- **Font modified date (head table)**: 2011-11-30 22:08:40 + +## google/fonts Commit History (ofl/fascinateinline/) + +1. `90abd17b4` (2015-03-07) -- Initial commit (Dave Crossland) -- added all files +2. `480630de3` -- Tentative update to METADATA.pb textprotos +3. `27f377ab0` -- Update copyright field in METADATA.pb +4. `883939708` -- Remove METADATA.json files +5. `633ebadbf` -- Add language support metadata (#4160) +6. `28b492c0f` / `c6307ba83` / `701bd391b` -- Language metadata rollback/redo (#4677, #4706) +7. `6bda16478` -- Format HTML with new html formatter + +The TTF binary was never modified after the initial commit. + +## METADATA.pb Status + +The current METADATA.pb on main has no `source { }` block. A source block was prepared on branch `sources_info_2026-02-25` (commit `9a14639f3`) pointing to `librefonts/fascinateinline` at commit `0319622`, but it has not been merged. + +## Config Assessment + +**No config.yaml is possible.** The upstream repo only has VFB sources, which are FontLab Studio proprietary binary files. These cannot be processed by gftools-builder or fontc. There is no way to create a config.yaml for this family without first converting the sources to an open format (.glyphs, .ufo, or .designspace). + +## Relationship to Fascinate + +Fascinate and Fascinate Inline are companion typefaces designed together by Brian J. Bonislawsky. They share: +- The same copyright notice and OFL license (both names reserved together in the OFL.txt found in google/fonts) +- The same creation date (2011-12-01, within minutes of each other per head table timestamps) +- The same date added to Google Fonts (2011-12-07) +- The same Art Deco design language, with the Inline version featuring decorative inline strokes + +Despite being companion faces, they are maintained in separate librefonts repositories (`librefonts/fascinate` and `librefonts/fascinateinline`). + +## Designer Information + +Brian J. Bonislawsky operates as Astigmatic (AOETI). Website: http://www.astigmatic.com/. Email: astigma@astigmatic.com. He is a prolific contributor to Google Fonts with many display typefaces. + +## Conclusion + +- **Repository URL**: https://github.com/librefonts/fascinateinline +- **Commit**: `0319622bad0ad42aae026ce7b00cd2f8ef64e658` (only commit in repo) +- **Config**: none (VFB-only sources, not buildable with gftools-builder) +- **Status**: complete (source block can be added, but no config.yaml is possible) +- **Confidence**: HIGH -- the librefonts repo is the only known upstream, and the commit is the only commit in the repo. The VFB sources match the font's original creation date (2011). + +No further action is possible regarding config.yaml without source format conversion by the original designer.