# Ovo — Source Metadata Investigation

**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
**Date**: 2026-03-12

## Summary

Ovo is a medium-contrast serif font designed by Nicole Fally, mastered by Eben Sorkin of SorkinType. The FONTLOG credits Nicole Fally as the original designer (nf@t-g-d.at, www.t-g-d.at) and Eben Sorkin for spacing and mastering. It was added to Google Fonts on 2011-07-20.

## Designer

Nicole Fally created the initial version (v1.000, July 2010) in FontLab VFB format. Eben Sorkin completed the mastering and TTF conversion (v1.002, July 2011). The copyright notice credits Sorkin Type Co (www.sorkintype.com).

## Upstream Repository Search

The following searches were conducted:

- GitHub user search for "nicolefally": no account found
- GitHub repository search for "ovo font": no relevant font repository found
- GitHub repository search for "nicole fally font": no results
- SorkinType GitHub organization (https://github.com/SorkinType): reviewed all 70+ repositories — no Ovo repository exists in the SorkinType organization

## librefonts/ovo Analysis

The repository https://github.com/librefonts/ovo is a librefonts organization mirror. Its `src/` folder contains:
- `Ovo-Regular.vfb` — FontLab VFB source file (proprietary binary format)
- `Ovo-Regular-TFF.sfd` — FontForge SFD source file

The FONTLOG confirms the original design was created in FontLab (VFB format). No UFO or Glyphs source files exist.

## Conclusion

No canonical designer-owned upstream repository was found for Ovo. Neither Nicole Fally nor Eben Sorkin maintain a public GitHub repository for this font. The SorkinType GitHub organization, which hosts many other SorkinType fonts, does not include an Ovo repository. The only available source is the `librefonts/ovo` mirror, which contains VFB and SFD files only. No METADATA.pb source block was added.

## References

- librefonts mirror: https://github.com/librefonts/ovo
- SorkinType GitHub: https://github.com/SorkinType
- Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ovo
