**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
**Date**: 2026-03-12
-## Summary
+## Source Repository
-The only GitHub repository found for Patrick Hand SC is `github.com/m4rc1e/PatrickHandSC`, maintained by Marc Foley (a Google Fonts engineer), not the original designer Patrick Wagesreiter. This repository is an engineering preparation repo for Google Fonts, not a canonical designer-owned upstream. No designer-owned public repository was found.
+| Field | Value |
+|-------|-------|
+| **Repository** | [googlefontdirectory-hg](https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefontdirectory-hg) |
+| **Commit** | `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6` |
+| **Source path** | `ofl/patrickhandsc/src/` |
+| **Buildable** | No — legacy format only (.sfd) |
+
+The font sources are in the **googlefontdirectory-hg** monorepo, a git mirror of the
+original Google Code Mercurial repository (`code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory`)
+that was the canonical host for Google Fonts from 2010 to 2013.
+
+### Source files
+
+- **.sfd** (FontForge): PatrickHandSC-Regular_prettfautohint.sfd
+- **Compiled binaries** (not design sources): PatrickHandSC-Regular.otf, PatrickHandSC-Regular_prettfautohint.ttf
+- **Metadata**: METADATA_comments.txt
+
+The only design source is an SFD file (FontForge format), which is not buildable with gftools-builder. No modern buildable sources (.glyphs, .ufo, .designspace) are available.
## Investigation
The METADATA.pb listed the designer as Patrick Wagesreiter with copyright dated 2012 ("The Patrick Hand Authors").
-The DESCRIPTION.en_us.html described Patrick Hand SC as the Small Caps sister family to Patrick Hand, with a 2019-03 update reference noting "Updated to latest upstream release, fixing 'fi' ligature." This update reference implies upstream sources exist somewhere, but the location was not specified.
+The DESCRIPTION.en_us.html described Patrick Hand SC as the Small Caps sister family to Patrick Hand, with a 2019-03 update reference noting "Updated to latest upstream release, fixing 'fi' ligature."
-Web searches confirmed the only GitHub repository is `github.com/m4rc1e/PatrickHandSC`, described as "Patrick Hand SC font by Patrick Wagesreiter." Marc Foley (m4rc1e) is a Google Fonts developer and font engineer, making this an engineering/preparation repo rather than the designer's canonical upstream. This repository was found to have its latest commit dated 2019-02-11 (SHA `9b973bc50d7ad26fd2d2b26725a457fdeef11d3e`), consistent with the 2019-03 update mentioned in the DESCRIPTION.
+The only GitHub repository found for Patrick Hand SC is `github.com/m4rc1e/PatrickHandSC`, maintained by Marc Foley (a Google Fonts engineer), not the original designer Patrick Wagesreiter. This repository is an engineering preparation repo for Google Fonts, not a canonical designer-owned upstream. Its latest commit was dated 2019-02-11 (SHA `9b973bc50d7ad26fd2d2b26725a457fdeef11d3e`), consistent with the 2019-03 update mentioned in the DESCRIPTION.
The Patrick Hand investigation (conducted in parallel) also found no designer-owned repository for either family variant.
## Conclusion
-No canonical designer-owned upstream repository was found. The only discoverable repo (`m4rc1e/PatrickHandSC`) is a Google Fonts engineering repository, not the original designer's upstream. No METADATA.pb changes were made.
+No canonical designer-owned upstream repository was found. The `m4rc1e/PatrickHandSC` repo is a Google Fonts engineering repository, not the original designer's upstream. The legacy googlefontdirectory-hg archive contains only SFD sources, which are not buildable with gftools-builder. No METADATA.pb changes were made.