From: Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:37:04 +0000 (+0000) Subject: metalmania: add source metadata from googlefontdirectory-hg X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b392a58e335dbda983fd21ccc491ea1919633374;p=thirdparty%2Fgoogle%2Ffonts.git metalmania: 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/metalmania/METADATA.pb b/ofl/metalmania/METADATA.pb index 6e6720752..6eb60a155 100644 --- a/ofl/metalmania/METADATA.pb +++ b/ofl/metalmania/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/metalmania/upstream_info.md b/ofl/metalmania/upstream_info.md index acd8b11fd..07be32822 100644 --- a/ofl/metalmania/upstream_info.md +++ b/ofl/metalmania/upstream_info.md @@ -3,46 +3,55 @@ **Model**: Claude Opus 4.6 **Date**: 2026-03-12 -## Repository +## Source Repository -- **URL**: https://github.com/librefonts/metalmania -- **Status**: Archived / inactive — last commit 2014-10-17, no activity since -- **Default branch**: `master` -- **Latest commit**: `7f5e5a82` (2014-10-17) — "update .travis.yml" -- **First commit**: `10c6697f` (2014-07-16) — "Move metalmania font files to separate repository" -- **Total commits**: 11 +The original design sources for Metal Mania are preserved in the **googlefontdirectory-hg** monorepo, a git mirror of the original Google Code Mercurial repository that was the canonical host for Google Fonts from 2010 to 2013. -The designer, Dathan Boardman (Open Window), has a GitHub account at https://github.com/dathanboardman, but it has 0 public repositories. The `librefonts/metalmania` repo was created and maintained by a third party (Mikhail Kashkin / hash3g) as part of the `librefonts` infrastructure, not by the original designer. +- **Repository**: [googlefontdirectory-hg](https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg) +- **Commit**: `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6` +- **Source path**: `ofl/metalmania/src/` -The FONTLOG.txt references a Google+ profile (`https://profiles.google.com/openwindowfonts/about`) that no longer exists (404). +### Source files -## Source Files +| File | Format | Buildable | +|------|--------|-----------| +| `MetalMania-Regular-TTF.vfb` | FontLab VFB | No (proprietary) | +| `METADATA_comments.txt` | Metadata notes | N/A | -The repo's `src/` directory contains: -- `MetalMania-Regular-TTF.vfb` — FontLab Studio binary source file (300 KB), the original master -- `METADATA_comments.txt` — internal notes about subsetting operations -- `VERSIONS.txt` — records version 1.002 of MetalMania-Regular.ttf - -The root of the repository contains TTX-format table dumps (`MetalMania-Regular.ttf.*.ttx`) generated from the binary, which serve as human-readable representations but are not the authoritative sources. +Only one design source is present: a FontLab VFB file (300 KB) with TrueType outlines and hinting adjustments. No UFO, Glyphs, SFD, or other modern buildable sources are available. ## Build System -The repository used **fontbakery-build.py** (the 2014-era build pipeline), invoked via Travis CI: +No modern build system (gftools builder, fontmake) is available. The VFB format is proprietary (FontLab Studio 5) and requires conversion before modern tooling can be used. + +## config.yaml Status -``` -fontbakery-build.py . 2>&1 | tee -a builds/build/buildlog.txt -``` +No `config.yaml` exists. One cannot be created without converting the VFB source to a modern format (UFO or Glyphs). -Dependencies at the time included FontForge (for VFB reading), ttfautohint, fontTools, fontcrunch, and jinja2. This build system is entirely obsolete — fontbakery-build.py no longer exists in the current fontbakery codebase, and `.vfb` files require FontLab Studio 5 to open natively. There is no UFO or Glyphs source. +## Designer & History -## config.yaml Status +- **Designer**: Dathan Boardman (Open Window) +- **Contact**: dathanboardman@gmail.com +- **Date added to Google Fonts**: 2012-07-11 +- **Font version**: 1.002 (August 2012, unchanged since initial release) +- **FONTLOG reference**: A Google+ profile (`https://profiles.google.com/openwindowfonts/about`) that no longer exists (404). + +The designer has a GitHub account at https://github.com/dathanboardman but has 0 public repositories. No upstream source is maintained by the original designer; this family should be considered orphaned. + +## Additional Repository + +A copy also exists in the `librefonts` GitHub organization: + +- **URL**: https://github.com/librefonts/metalmania +- **Status**: Dormant — last commit 2014-10-17, no activity since +- **Latest commit**: `7f5e5a82` (2014-10-17) — "update .travis.yml" +- **First commit**: `10c6697f` (2014-07-16) — "Move metalmania font files to separate repository" +- **Total commits**: 11 -No `config.yaml` exists in the repository or in `/mnt/shared/google/fonts/ofl/metalmania/`. The font predates the current Google Fonts build infrastructure (gftools/fontmake era) and has never been set up for automated rebuilding. +The repo was created and maintained by Mikhail Kashkin (hash3g) as part of the `librefonts` infrastructure, not by the original designer. The root of the repository contains TTX-format table dumps generated from the binary. It uses an obsolete fontbakery-build pipeline and has no issues, PRs, or forks. ## Notes -- The font was added to Google Fonts on 2012-07-11 and has not been updated since (still at version 1.002 from August 2012). -- The only authoritative source is the `.vfb` FontLab binary, which is not editable without FontLab Studio 5. Conversion to a modern open format (UFO or Glyphs) would be required for any future rebuild or update. -- The `librefonts` organization on GitHub appears to have been an early Google Fonts infrastructure project that is no longer active. The repo has no issues, no PRs, and no forks. -- No upstream source is maintained by the original designer. This family should be considered **orphaned** with no active upstream. -- Confidence in the repo identification is **high** — the `.vfb` filename matches the FONTLOG description exactly ("MetalMania-Regular-TTF.vfb TrueType outlines with hinting adjustments corresponding to the TTF file"), and version 1.002 matches. +- The only authoritative source is the VFB FontLab binary, which would need conversion to UFO or Glyphs for any future rebuild. +- The `librefonts` organization on GitHub was an early Google Fonts infrastructure project that is no longer active. +- Confidence in source identification is high — the VFB filename matches the FONTLOG description exactly ("MetalMania-Regular-TTF.vfb TrueType outlines with hinting adjustments corresponding to the TTF file"), and version 1.002 matches.