-# Sofia — Upstream Investigation
+# Sofia -- Upstream Source Investigation
**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
-**Date**: 2026-03-12
-**Investigator**: AI agent (Claude) under guidance of @felipesanches
-## Summary
+## Source Repository
-No canonical upstream repository with UFO or Glyphs source files was found for
-the Sofia font.
+Design sources were found in the **googlefontdirectory-hg** archive (Google Font Directory, Mercurial-era).
+
+- **Repository**: googlefontdirectory-hg
+- **Commit**: `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6`
+- **Source path**: `sofia/src/`
+
+## Source Files
+
+The source directory contains: 1 VFB file (FontLab, proprietary format); 1 compiled binary (OTF/TTF, not design sources).
+
+The VFB format is proprietary (FontLab) and cannot be built with gftools-builder. These sources are **not directly buildable** with the current open-source pipeline.
+
+### Key source files
+
+- `Sofia-Regular-OTF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Sofia-Regular.otf` (compiled binary)
## Research
`lettersoup/Sofia-Sans`, but this is a different typeface and not related to
the LatinoType Sofia font on Google Fonts.
-## Decision
-
-No `source` block was added to `METADATA.pb`. The font's source files did not
-appear to be publicly available in a format suitable for the source metadata.
## Notes