-# Rum Raisin — Upstream Source Investigation
+# Rum Raisin — Source Metadata Investigation
-**Designer**: Astigmatic (Brian J. Bonislawsky)
**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
**Date**: 2026-03-12
-## Summary
+## Source Repository
-No canonical upstream repository with UFO or Glyphs source files was found for Rum Raisin.
+The `googlefontdirectory-hg` monorepo (the historical Google Font Directory Mercurial archive) contains files for this family.
-## Investigation
+- **Repository**: `googlefontdirectory-hg`
+- **Commit**: `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6`
+- **Source path**: `rumraisin/src/`
+
+## Source Files
+
+The `rumraisin/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): RumRaisin-Regular-OTF.vfb, RumRaisin-Regular-TTF.vfb, RumRaisin-Regular.vfb
+- **OTF** (compiled binaries, not design sources): RumRaisin-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.
+
+## Designer
+
+Astigmatic (Brian J. Bonislawsky)
+
+## Investigation Details
Rum Raisin was designed by Brian J. Bonislawsky DBA Astigmatic (AOETI). The DESCRIPTION.en_us.html and FONTLOG.txt direct contributors to contact `astigma@astigmatic.com`, but contain no upstream source repository links.
The only repositories matching `RumRaisin` were:
- `librefonts/rumraisin` — a librefonts mirror (skipped per policy)
- Unrelated repositories (image processing, gaming projects)
-
-## Conclusion
-
-No canonical upstream repository with editable UFO or Glyphs sources was found for Rum Raisin. No source block was added to METADATA.pb.