subsets: "latin-ext"
classifications: "DISPLAY"
classifications: "HANDWRITING"
+source {
+ repository_url: "https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg"
+ commit: "52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6"
+}
-# Stalemate — Upstream Investigation
+# Stalemate -- 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
-Stalemate.
+Design sources were found in the **googlefontdirectory-hg** archive (Google Font Directory, Mercurial-era).
+
+- **Repository**: googlefontdirectory-hg
+- **Commit**: `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6`
+- **Source path**: `stalemate/src/`
+
+## Source Files
+
+The source directory contains: 3 VFB files (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
+
+- `Stalemate-Regular-OTF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Stalemate-Regular-TTF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Stalemate-Regular.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Stalemate-Regular.otf` (compiled binary)
## Research
repositories under Astigmatic, Jim Lyles, or related names returned no
results. No GitHub organization or user account for Astigmatic was found.
-## Decision
-
-No `source` block was added to `METADATA.pb`. No publicly accessible source
-repository was found.
## Notes