-# Share — Upstream Source Investigation
+# Share -- Upstream Source Investigation
-**Designer**: Carrois Apostrophe
**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
-**Date**: 2026-03-12
-## Summary
+## Source Repository
-No canonical upstream repository with font sources was found for the Share family (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic) on GitHub. The Carrois organization on GitHub contained only `carrois/ShareHand`, which lacked font source files (only OTF/WOFF binaries were present). No Glyphs or UFO sources for the Share family were found.
+Design sources were found in the **googlefontdirectory-hg** archive (Google Font Directory, Mercurial-era).
+
+- **Repository**: googlefontdirectory-hg
+- **Commit**: `52f780bc9d197280a9f430574e179a5f233c56b6`
+- **Source path**: `share/src/`
+
+## Source Files
+
+The source directory contains: 12 VFB files (FontLab, proprietary format); 4 SFD files (FontForge format); 20 compiled binaries (OTF/TTF, not design sources).
+
+Neither VFB (FontLab, proprietary) nor SFD (FontForge) formats are supported by gftools-builder. These sources are **not directly buildable** with the current open-source pipeline.
+
+### Key source files
+
+- `Share-Bold-OTF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-BoldItalic-OTF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-Italic-OTF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-Regular-OTF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-BoldExp.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-BoldItalicExp.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-ItalicExp.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-RegularExp.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-BoldItalicOSF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-BoldOSF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-ItalicOSF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-RegularOSF.vfb` (VFB, proprietary)
+- `Share-Bold-TTF.sfd` (SFD, FontForge)
+- `Share-BoldItalic-TTF.sfd` (SFD, FontForge)
+- `Share-Italic-TTF.sfd` (SFD, FontForge)
+- `Share-Regular-TTF.sfd` (SFD, FontForge)
+- `Share-Bold.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-BoldItalic.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-Italic.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-Regular.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-BoldExp.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-BoldExp.ttf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-BoldItalicExp.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-BoldItalicExp.ttf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-ItalicExp.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-ItalicExp.ttf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-RegularExp.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-RegularExp.ttf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-BoldItalicOSF.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-BoldItalicOSF.ttf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-BoldOSF.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-BoldOSF.ttf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-ItalicOSF.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-ItalicOSF.ttf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-RegularOSF.otf` (compiled binary)
+- `Share-RegularOSF.ttf` (compiled binary)
+
+## Designer
+
+Carrois Apostrophe
## Search Results
- Checked `carrois/ShareHand` contents: only OTF, PDF, and web font binaries (no sources)
- Note: `m4rc1e/ShareTech` was found for Share Tech (a separate family)
- No repository for the full Share family (4 styles) with sources was found
-
-## Outcome
-
-No source block was added to METADATA.pb. No public source repository with design files for the Share family was found.