diff --git a/packages/fallbacks/README.md b/packages/fallbacks/README.md
index 7ecb06e..b3e2a3a 100644
--- a/packages/fallbacks/README.md
+++ b/packages/fallbacks/README.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ const map = createFallbackMap({
 map[normalizeFamilyName("Times New Roman")];
 ```
 
-Some fallbacks are face-scoped. Use `getRenderableFallbackForFace`, or respect the returned `faces` field before applying a fallback to bold or italic text.
+Some fallbacks are face-scoped. `faces` reports real face coverage. Use `getRenderableFallbackForFace` for styled text; a result may include `faceSource`, where `synthetic` means render from the indicated face and let your renderer synthesize the requested style.
 
 ## Fidelity fields
 
@@ -80,3 +80,5 @@ Some fallbacks are face-scoped. Use `getRenderableFallbackForFace`, or respect t
 ## Provenance
 
 Measurements are produced against licensed originals. This package distributes no proprietary binaries, raw proprietary metrics, or font files.
+
+`candidateLicense` is a candidate license id or expression: SPDX when exact, stable docfonts label otherwise.
diff --git a/packages/fallbacks/fallbacks.test.ts b/packages/fallbacks/fallbacks.test.ts
index e3896e7..bf60236 100644
--- a/packages/fallbacks/fallbacks.test.ts
+++ b/packages/fallbacks/fallbacks.test.ts
@@ -54,15 +54,15 @@ describe("getFallbackDecision", () => {
   });
 
   test("a measured 'no open font' is distinct from an unknown font", () => {
-    // The whole point of the decision API: docfonts MEASURED Aptos and Tahoma; it never heard of "Foo".
+    // The whole point of the decision API: docfonts MEASURED Aptos and Verdana; it never heard of "Foo".
     expect(getFallbackDecision("Aptos")).toEqual({
       kind: "customer_supplied",
       evidenceId: "aptos",
       generic: "sans-serif",
     });
-    expect(getFallbackDecision("Tahoma")).toEqual({
+    expect(getFallbackDecision("Verdana")).toEqual({
       kind: "no_recommended_fallback",
-      evidenceId: "tahoma",
+      evidenceId: "verdana",
       generic: "sans-serif",
     });
     expect(getFallbackDecision("Cambria Math")).toEqual({
@@ -158,6 +158,20 @@ describe("normalizeFamilyName (public)", () => {
 describe("face-aware lookups (Regular-only safety)", () => {
   const renderAll = { canRenderFamily: () => true };
 
+  test("synthetic face sources stay separate from real face coverage", () => {
+    for (const row of SUBSTITUTION_EVIDENCE) {
+      if (!row.faceSources) continue;
+      for (const face of ["regular", "bold", "italic", "boldItalic"] as const) {
+        const source = row.faceSources[face];
+        if (source?.kind !== "synthetic") continue;
+        expect(row.faces[face], `${row.evidenceId} ${face}`).toBe(false);
+        expect(row.faceVerdicts?.[face], `${row.evidenceId} ${face}`).toBe(
+          "visual_only",
+        );
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
   test("every FontFallback now carries the substitute's face coverage", () => {
     // The family-level result is self-describing, so a map consumer can route per-face.
     expect(
@@ -300,6 +314,87 @@ describe("glyphExceptions projection", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("selected visual fallback rows", () => {
+  const renderAll = { canRenderFamily: () => true };
+
+  test("newly reviewed visual rows resolve to their selected families without claiming line-break safety", () => {
+    const expected = [
+      ["Arial Black", "Archivo Black", "substitute"],
+      ["Arial Rounded MT Bold", "Ubuntu", "category_fallback"],
+      ["Bookman Old Style", "TeX Gyre Bonum", "substitute"],
+      ["Century", "C059", "substitute"],
+      ["Comic Sans MS", "Comic Relief", "category_fallback"],
+      ["Garamond", "Cardo", "category_fallback"],
+      ["Gill Sans MT Condensed", "PT Sans Narrow", "category_fallback"],
+      ["Tahoma", "Noto Sans", "category_fallback"],
+      ["Trebuchet MS", "PT Sans", "category_fallback"],
+    ] as const;
+
+    for (const [logical, physical, policyAction] of expected) {
+      expect(getRenderableFallback(logical, renderAll), logical).toMatchObject({
+        substituteFamily: physical,
+        policyAction,
+        verdict: "visual_only",
+        lineBreakSafe: false,
+      });
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("rows with synthetic selected faces expose render instructions without marking those faces real", () => {
+    expect(
+      getRenderableFallbackForFace("Arial Black", "italic", renderAll),
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      substituteFamily: "Archivo Black",
+      faceSource: { kind: "synthetic", from: "regular" },
+      faces: { regular: true, bold: false, italic: false, boldItalic: false },
+    });
+    expect(
+      getFallbackDecisionForFace("Arial Black", "bold", renderAll).kind,
+    ).toBe("face_missing");
+
+    expect(
+      getRenderableFallbackForFace("Comic Sans MS", "boldItalic", renderAll),
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      substituteFamily: "Comic Relief",
+      faceSource: { kind: "synthetic", from: "bold" },
+      faces: { regular: true, bold: true, italic: false, boldItalic: false },
+    });
+
+    expect(
+      getRenderableFallbackForFace(
+        "Gill Sans MT Condensed",
+        "italic",
+        renderAll,
+      ),
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      substituteFamily: "PT Sans Narrow",
+      faceSource: { kind: "synthetic", from: "regular" },
+      faces: { regular: true, bold: true, italic: false, boldItalic: false },
+    });
+  });
+});
+
+describe("candidate license metadata", () => {
+  test("uses public license identifiers or stable docfonts labels", () => {
+    const LICENSE_IDS = new Set([
+      "AGPL-3.0-only WITH PS-or-PDF-font-exception-20170817",
+      "Apache-2.0",
+      "GPLv2-with-font-exception",
+      "GUST-Font-License-1.0",
+      "OFL-1.1",
+      "Ubuntu-font-1.0",
+    ]);
+
+    for (const row of SUBSTITUTION_EVIDENCE) {
+      if (!row.candidateLicense) continue;
+      expect(
+        LICENSE_IDS.has(row.candidateLicense),
+        `${row.evidenceId} (${row.candidateLicense})`,
+      ).toBe(true);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
 describe("generic CSS family metadata", () => {
   const renderAll = { canRenderFamily: () => true };
 
@@ -348,42 +443,45 @@ describe("advance measurement basis", () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe("Cooper Black -> Caprasimo (Regular-only, metric_safe)", () => {
+describe("Cooper Black -> Caprasimo (real Regular plus synthetic faces)", () => {
   const renderAll = { canRenderFamily: () => true };
   const onlyCaprasimo = { canRenderFamily: (f: string) => f === "Caprasimo" };
 
-  test("the family resolves to Caprasimo as an exact, line-break-safe Regular substitute", () => {
+  test("the family resolves to Caprasimo with Regular-only real face coverage", () => {
     // Unlike Baskerville -> Bacasime (visual_only, NBSP reflows), Cooper measures 0% across the Latin
-    // core, so the row is metric_safe with no glyph exceptions.
+    // core for Regular. Styled faces are synthetic and intentionally roll the family to visual_only.
     expect(getRenderableFallback("Cooper Black", renderAll)).toEqual({
       substituteFamily: "Caprasimo",
       policyAction: "substitute",
-      verdict: "metric_safe",
-      lineBreakSafe: true,
+      verdict: "visual_only",
+      lineBreakSafe: false,
       faces: { regular: true, bold: false, italic: false, boldItalic: false },
       evidenceId: "cooper-black",
       generic: "serif",
     });
   });
 
-  test("Regular maps; bold/italic/boldItalic are face_missing (never faux-styled onto Caprasimo)", () => {
+  test("Regular maps as metric_safe; bold/italic/boldItalic map as synthetic visual_only faces", () => {
+    expect(
+      getRenderableFallbackForFace("Cooper Black", "regular", renderAll),
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      substituteFamily: "Caprasimo",
+      verdict: "metric_safe",
+      lineBreakSafe: true,
+    });
     expect(
       getRenderableFallbackForFace("Cooper Black", "regular", renderAll)
-        ?.substituteFamily,
-    ).toBe("Caprasimo");
+        ?.faceSource,
+    ).toBeUndefined();
     for (const face of ["bold", "italic", "boldItalic"] as const) {
       expect(
         getRenderableFallbackForFace("Cooper Black", face, renderAll),
         `Cooper Black ${face}`,
-      ).toBeNull();
-      expect(
-        getFallbackDecisionForFace("Cooper Black", face, renderAll),
-        `Cooper Black ${face} decision`,
-      ).toEqual({
-        kind: "face_missing",
+      ).toMatchObject({
         substituteFamily: "Caprasimo",
-        evidenceId: "cooper-black",
-        generic: "serif",
+        verdict: "visual_only",
+        lineBreakSafe: false,
+        faceSource: { kind: "synthetic", from: "regular" },
       });
     }
   });
@@ -395,7 +493,7 @@ describe("Cooper Black -> Caprasimo (Regular-only, metric_safe)", () => {
     ).toEqual({
       kind: "asset_missing",
       substituteFamily: "Caprasimo",
-      verdict: "metric_safe",
+      verdict: "visual_only",
       evidenceId: "cooper-black",
       generic: "serif",
     });
@@ -403,5 +501,10 @@ describe("Cooper Black -> Caprasimo (Regular-only, metric_safe)", () => {
       getRenderableFallbackForFace("Cooper Black", "regular", onlyCaprasimo)
         ?.substituteFamily,
     ).toBe("Caprasimo");
+    expect(
+      getFallbackDecisionForFace("Cooper Black", "bold", {
+        canRenderFamily: () => false,
+      }).kind,
+    ).toBe("asset_missing");
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/fallbacks/records.json b/packages/fallbacks/records.json
index 839d504..a45e4a4 100644
--- a/packages/fallbacks/records.json
+++ b/packages/fallbacks/records.json
@@ -292,6 +292,143 @@
     "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
     "candidateLicense": null
   },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "arial-black",
+    "generic": "sans-serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Arial Black",
+    "physicalFamily": "Archivo Black",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": false,
+      "italic": false,
+      "boldItalic": false
+    },
+    "faceSources": {
+      "italic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      }
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "substitute",
+    "measurementRefs": ["arial-black__archivo-black#visual_review#2026-06-09"],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1",
+    "faceVerdicts": {
+      "italic": "visual_only"
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "arial-rounded-mt-bold",
+    "generic": "sans-serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Arial Rounded MT Bold",
+    "physicalFamily": "Ubuntu",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": true
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "category_fallback",
+    "measurementRefs": [
+      "arial-rounded-mt-bold__ubuntu#visual_review#2026-06-09"
+    ],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "Ubuntu-font-1.0"
+  },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "bookman-old-style",
+    "generic": "serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Bookman Old Style",
+    "physicalFamily": "TeX Gyre Bonum",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": true
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "substitute",
+    "measurementRefs": [
+      "bookman-old-style__tex-gyre-bonum#visual_review#2026-06-09"
+    ],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "GUST-Font-License-1.0"
+  },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "century",
+    "generic": "serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Century",
+    "physicalFamily": "C059",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": true
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "substitute",
+    "measurementRefs": ["century__c059#visual_review#2026-06-09"],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "AGPL-3.0-only WITH PS-or-PDF-font-exception-20170817"
+  },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "garamond",
+    "generic": "serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Garamond",
+    "physicalFamily": "Cardo",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": false
+    },
+    "faceSources": {
+      "boldItalic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "bold"
+      }
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "category_fallback",
+    "measurementRefs": ["garamond__cardo#visual_review#2026-06-09"],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1",
+    "faceVerdicts": {
+      "boldItalic": "visual_only"
+    }
+  },
   {
     "evidenceId": "consolas",
     "generic": "monospace",
@@ -349,77 +486,84 @@
     "evidenceId": "tahoma",
     "generic": "sans-serif",
     "logicalFamily": "Tahoma",
-    "physicalFamily": null,
+    "physicalFamily": "Noto Sans",
     "verdict": "visual_only",
     "faces": {
-      "regular": false,
-      "bold": false,
-      "italic": false,
-      "boldItalic": false
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": true
     },
     "gates": {
-      "static": "not_run",
+      "static": "pass",
       "metric": "fail",
       "layout": "not_run",
-      "ship": "not_run"
+      "ship": "fail"
     },
     "policyAction": "category_fallback",
-    "measurementRefs": ["tahoma#top_candidates#2026-06-03"],
+    "measurementRefs": ["tahoma__noto-sans#visual_review#2026-06-09"],
     "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
-    "candidateLicense": null
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1"
   },
   {
     "evidenceId": "trebuchet-ms",
     "generic": "sans-serif",
     "logicalFamily": "Trebuchet MS",
-    "physicalFamily": null,
+    "physicalFamily": "PT Sans",
     "verdict": "visual_only",
     "faces": {
-      "regular": false,
-      "bold": false,
-      "italic": false,
-      "boldItalic": false
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": true
     },
     "gates": {
-      "static": "not_run",
+      "static": "pass",
       "metric": "fail",
       "layout": "not_run",
-      "ship": "not_run"
+      "ship": "fail"
     },
     "policyAction": "category_fallback",
-    "measurementRefs": ["trebuchet-ms#top_candidates#2026-06-03"],
+    "measurementRefs": ["trebuchet-ms__pt-sans#visual_review#2026-06-09"],
     "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
-    "candidateLicense": null
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1"
   },
   {
     "evidenceId": "comic-sans-ms",
     "generic": "sans-serif",
     "logicalFamily": "Comic Sans MS",
-    "physicalFamily": "Comic Neue",
+    "physicalFamily": "Comic Relief",
     "verdict": "visual_only",
     "faces": {
-      "regular": false,
-      "bold": false,
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
       "italic": false,
       "boldItalic": false
     },
+    "faceSources": {
+      "italic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      },
+      "boldItalic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "bold"
+      }
+    },
     "gates": {
-      "static": "not_run",
+      "static": "pass",
       "metric": "fail",
       "layout": "not_run",
-      "ship": "not_run"
+      "ship": "fail"
     },
     "policyAction": "category_fallback",
-    "measurementRefs": [
-      "comic-sans-ms__comic-neue#analytic_advance#2026-06-03"
-    ],
+    "measurementRefs": ["comic-sans-ms__comic-relief#visual_review#2026-06-09"],
     "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
-    "advance": {
-      "basis": "latin_full",
-      "meanDelta": 0.1005,
-      "maxDelta": 0.1419
-    },
-    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1"
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1",
+    "faceVerdicts": {
+      "italic": "visual_only",
+      "boldItalic": "visual_only"
+    }
   },
   {
     "evidenceId": "candara",
@@ -518,6 +662,47 @@
     },
     "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1"
   },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "gill-sans-mt-condensed",
+    "generic": "sans-serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Gill Sans MT Condensed",
+    "physicalFamily": "PT Sans Narrow",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": false,
+      "boldItalic": false
+    },
+    "faceSources": {
+      "italic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      },
+      "boldItalic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "bold"
+      }
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "category_fallback",
+    "measurementRefs": [
+      "gill-sans-mt-condensed__pt-sans-narrow#visual_review#2026-06-09"
+    ],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1",
+    "faceVerdicts": {
+      "regular": "visual_only",
+      "bold": "visual_only",
+      "italic": "visual_only",
+      "boldItalic": "visual_only"
+    }
+  },
   {
     "evidenceId": "aptos-display",
     "generic": "sans-serif",
@@ -666,13 +851,27 @@
     "generic": "serif",
     "logicalFamily": "Cooper Black",
     "physicalFamily": "Caprasimo",
-    "verdict": "metric_safe",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
     "faces": {
       "regular": true,
       "bold": false,
       "italic": false,
       "boldItalic": false
     },
+    "faceSources": {
+      "bold": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      },
+      "italic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      },
+      "boldItalic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      }
+    },
     "gates": {
       "static": "pass",
       "metric": "pass",
@@ -681,7 +880,8 @@
     },
     "policyAction": "substitute",
     "measurementRefs": [
-      "cooper-black_regular__caprasimo#regular#w400#786ab84e#analytic_advance#2026-06-05"
+      "cooper-black_regular__caprasimo#regular#w400#786ab84e#analytic_advance#2026-06-05",
+      "cooper-black__caprasimo#synthetic_faces#visual_review#2026-06-09"
     ],
     "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
     "advance": {
@@ -691,7 +891,10 @@
     },
     "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1",
     "faceVerdicts": {
-      "regular": "metric_safe"
+      "regular": "metric_safe",
+      "bold": "visual_only",
+      "italic": "visual_only",
+      "boldItalic": "visual_only"
     }
   }
 ]
diff --git a/packages/fallbacks/src/data.ts b/packages/fallbacks/src/data.ts
index 91fc927..4e68622 100644
--- a/packages/fallbacks/src/data.ts
+++ b/packages/fallbacks/src/data.ts
@@ -299,6 +299,149 @@ export const SUBSTITUTION_EVIDENCE: readonly SubstitutionEvidence[] = [
     "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
     "candidateLicense": null
   },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "arial-black",
+    "generic": "sans-serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Arial Black",
+    "physicalFamily": "Archivo Black",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": false,
+      "italic": false,
+      "boldItalic": false
+    },
+    "faceSources": {
+      "italic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      }
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "substitute",
+    "measurementRefs": [
+      "arial-black__archivo-black#visual_review#2026-06-09"
+    ],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1",
+    "faceVerdicts": {
+      "italic": "visual_only"
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "arial-rounded-mt-bold",
+    "generic": "sans-serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Arial Rounded MT Bold",
+    "physicalFamily": "Ubuntu",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": true
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "category_fallback",
+    "measurementRefs": [
+      "arial-rounded-mt-bold__ubuntu#visual_review#2026-06-09"
+    ],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "Ubuntu-font-1.0"
+  },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "bookman-old-style",
+    "generic": "serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Bookman Old Style",
+    "physicalFamily": "TeX Gyre Bonum",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": true
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "substitute",
+    "measurementRefs": [
+      "bookman-old-style__tex-gyre-bonum#visual_review#2026-06-09"
+    ],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "GUST-Font-License-1.0"
+  },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "century",
+    "generic": "serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Century",
+    "physicalFamily": "C059",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": true
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "substitute",
+    "measurementRefs": [
+      "century__c059#visual_review#2026-06-09"
+    ],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "AGPL-3.0-only WITH PS-or-PDF-font-exception-20170817"
+  },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "garamond",
+    "generic": "serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Garamond",
+    "physicalFamily": "Cardo",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": false
+    },
+    "faceSources": {
+      "boldItalic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "bold"
+      }
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "category_fallback",
+    "measurementRefs": [
+      "garamond__cardo#visual_review#2026-06-09"
+    ],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1",
+    "faceVerdicts": {
+      "boldItalic": "visual_only"
+    }
+  },
   {
     "evidenceId": "consolas",
     "generic": "monospace",
@@ -358,81 +501,90 @@ export const SUBSTITUTION_EVIDENCE: readonly SubstitutionEvidence[] = [
     "evidenceId": "tahoma",
     "generic": "sans-serif",
     "logicalFamily": "Tahoma",
-    "physicalFamily": null,
+    "physicalFamily": "Noto Sans",
     "verdict": "visual_only",
     "faces": {
-      "regular": false,
-      "bold": false,
-      "italic": false,
-      "boldItalic": false
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": true
     },
     "gates": {
-      "static": "not_run",
+      "static": "pass",
       "metric": "fail",
       "layout": "not_run",
-      "ship": "not_run"
+      "ship": "fail"
     },
     "policyAction": "category_fallback",
     "measurementRefs": [
-      "tahoma#top_candidates#2026-06-03"
+      "tahoma__noto-sans#visual_review#2026-06-09"
     ],
     "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
-    "candidateLicense": null
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1"
   },
   {
     "evidenceId": "trebuchet-ms",
     "generic": "sans-serif",
     "logicalFamily": "Trebuchet MS",
-    "physicalFamily": null,
+    "physicalFamily": "PT Sans",
     "verdict": "visual_only",
     "faces": {
-      "regular": false,
-      "bold": false,
-      "italic": false,
-      "boldItalic": false
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": true,
+      "boldItalic": true
     },
     "gates": {
-      "static": "not_run",
+      "static": "pass",
       "metric": "fail",
       "layout": "not_run",
-      "ship": "not_run"
+      "ship": "fail"
     },
     "policyAction": "category_fallback",
     "measurementRefs": [
-      "trebuchet-ms#top_candidates#2026-06-03"
+      "trebuchet-ms__pt-sans#visual_review#2026-06-09"
     ],
     "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
-    "candidateLicense": null
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1"
   },
   {
     "evidenceId": "comic-sans-ms",
     "generic": "sans-serif",
     "logicalFamily": "Comic Sans MS",
-    "physicalFamily": "Comic Neue",
+    "physicalFamily": "Comic Relief",
     "verdict": "visual_only",
     "faces": {
-      "regular": false,
-      "bold": false,
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
       "italic": false,
       "boldItalic": false
     },
+    "faceSources": {
+      "italic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      },
+      "boldItalic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "bold"
+      }
+    },
     "gates": {
-      "static": "not_run",
+      "static": "pass",
       "metric": "fail",
       "layout": "not_run",
-      "ship": "not_run"
+      "ship": "fail"
     },
     "policyAction": "category_fallback",
     "measurementRefs": [
-      "comic-sans-ms__comic-neue#analytic_advance#2026-06-03"
+      "comic-sans-ms__comic-relief#visual_review#2026-06-09"
     ],
     "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
-    "advance": {
-      "basis": "latin_full",
-      "meanDelta": 0.1005,
-      "maxDelta": 0.1419
-    },
-    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1"
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1",
+    "faceVerdicts": {
+      "italic": "visual_only",
+      "boldItalic": "visual_only"
+    }
   },
   {
     "evidenceId": "candara",
@@ -539,6 +691,47 @@ export const SUBSTITUTION_EVIDENCE: readonly SubstitutionEvidence[] = [
     },
     "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1"
   },
+  {
+    "evidenceId": "gill-sans-mt-condensed",
+    "generic": "sans-serif",
+    "logicalFamily": "Gill Sans MT Condensed",
+    "physicalFamily": "PT Sans Narrow",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
+    "faces": {
+      "regular": true,
+      "bold": true,
+      "italic": false,
+      "boldItalic": false
+    },
+    "faceSources": {
+      "italic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      },
+      "boldItalic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "bold"
+      }
+    },
+    "gates": {
+      "static": "pass",
+      "metric": "fail",
+      "layout": "not_run",
+      "ship": "fail"
+    },
+    "policyAction": "category_fallback",
+    "measurementRefs": [
+      "gill-sans-mt-condensed__pt-sans-narrow#visual_review#2026-06-09"
+    ],
+    "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
+    "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1",
+    "faceVerdicts": {
+      "regular": "visual_only",
+      "bold": "visual_only",
+      "italic": "visual_only",
+      "boldItalic": "visual_only"
+    }
+  },
   {
     "evidenceId": "aptos-display",
     "generic": "sans-serif",
@@ -689,13 +882,27 @@ export const SUBSTITUTION_EVIDENCE: readonly SubstitutionEvidence[] = [
     "generic": "serif",
     "logicalFamily": "Cooper Black",
     "physicalFamily": "Caprasimo",
-    "verdict": "metric_safe",
+    "verdict": "visual_only",
     "faces": {
       "regular": true,
       "bold": false,
       "italic": false,
       "boldItalic": false
     },
+    "faceSources": {
+      "bold": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      },
+      "italic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      },
+      "boldItalic": {
+        "kind": "synthetic",
+        "from": "regular"
+      }
+    },
     "gates": {
       "static": "pass",
       "metric": "pass",
@@ -704,7 +911,8 @@ export const SUBSTITUTION_EVIDENCE: readonly SubstitutionEvidence[] = [
     },
     "policyAction": "substitute",
     "measurementRefs": [
-      "cooper-black_regular__caprasimo#regular#w400#786ab84e#analytic_advance#2026-06-05"
+      "cooper-black_regular__caprasimo#regular#w400#786ab84e#analytic_advance#2026-06-05",
+      "cooper-black__caprasimo#synthetic_faces#visual_review#2026-06-09"
     ],
     "exportRule": "preserve_original_name",
     "advance": {
@@ -714,7 +922,10 @@ export const SUBSTITUTION_EVIDENCE: readonly SubstitutionEvidence[] = [
     },
     "candidateLicense": "OFL-1.1",
     "faceVerdicts": {
-      "regular": "metric_safe"
+      "regular": "metric_safe",
+      "bold": "visual_only",
+      "italic": "visual_only",
+      "boldItalic": "visual_only"
     }
   }
 ];
diff --git a/packages/fallbacks/src/fallbacks.ts b/packages/fallbacks/src/fallbacks.ts
index 5ea2ab4..034b51f 100644
--- a/packages/fallbacks/src/fallbacks.ts
+++ b/packages/fallbacks/src/fallbacks.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { SUBSTITUTION_EVIDENCE } from "./data.js";
 import type {
   FaceSlot,
   FallbackDecision,
+  FallbackFaceSource,
   FontFallback,
   SubstitutionEvidence,
   Verdict,
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ function buildFallback(
   physicalFamily: string,
   verdict: Verdict,
   faceSlot?: FaceSlot,
+  faceSource?: FallbackFaceSource,
 ): FontFallback {
   // Always hand back a FRESH array - filter() already copies; the family path must copy too, or a
   // consumer mutating it would corrupt the shared evidence row for later lookups.
@@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ function buildFallback(
     faces: row.faces,
     evidenceId: row.evidenceId,
     generic: row.generic,
+    ...(faceSource ? { faceSource: { ...faceSource } } : {}),
     ...(glyphExceptions && glyphExceptions.length > 0
       ? { glyphExceptions }
       : {}),
@@ -128,6 +131,15 @@ function isFaceScoped(row: SubstitutionEvidence): boolean {
   return f.regular || f.bold || f.italic || f.boldItalic;
 }
 
+function faceSourceFor(
+  row: SubstitutionEvidence,
+  face: FaceSlot,
+): FallbackFaceSource | undefined {
+  const explicit = row.faceSources?.[face];
+  if (explicit) return explicit;
+  return isFaceScoped(row) && row.faces[face] ? { kind: "real" } : undefined;
+}
+
 /**
  * Face-aware variant of {@link decideRow}: same family-level outcome, but when the family HAS a
  * renderable substitute AND the row is face-scoped, gate on whether it provides the requested `face`.
@@ -143,7 +155,8 @@ function decideRowForFace(
   const base = decideRow(row, canRenderFamily);
   // Non-fallback outcomes (asset_missing / no_recommended_fallback / policy) do not depend on the face.
   if (base.kind !== "fallback") return base;
-  if (isFaceScoped(row) && !row.faces[face])
+  const faceSource = faceSourceFor(row, face);
+  if (isFaceScoped(row) && !faceSource)
     return {
       kind: "face_missing",
       substituteFamily: base.fallback.substituteFamily,
@@ -151,6 +164,8 @@ function decideRowForFace(
       generic: row.generic,
     };
   const faceVerdict = row.faceVerdicts?.[face] ?? row.verdict;
+  const projectedFaceSource =
+    faceSource?.kind === "synthetic" ? faceSource : undefined;
   return {
     kind: "fallback",
     fallback: buildFallback(
@@ -158,6 +173,7 @@ function decideRowForFace(
       base.fallback.substituteFamily,
       faceVerdict,
       face,
+      projectedFaceSource,
     ),
   };
 }
diff --git a/packages/fallbacks/src/index.ts b/packages/fallbacks/src/index.ts
index b72d0b0..a7b430a 100644
--- a/packages/fallbacks/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/fallbacks/src/index.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ export type {
   FaceCoverage,
   FaceSlot,
   FallbackDecision,
+  FallbackFaceSource,
+  FallbackFaceSources,
   FontFallback,
   GlyphException,
   PolicyAction,
diff --git a/packages/fallbacks/src/types.ts b/packages/fallbacks/src/types.ts
index 8233e1a..3e1c846 100644
--- a/packages/fallbacks/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/fallbacks/src/types.ts
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ export interface FaceCoverage {
   boldItalic: boolean;
 }
 
+/** How a reviewed fallback supplies one requested face. */
+export type FallbackFaceSource =
+  | { kind: "real" }
+  | { kind: "synthetic"; from: FaceSlot };
+
+export type FallbackFaceSources = Partial<Record<FaceSlot, FallbackFaceSource>>;
+
 /** The four derived gate statuses behind a verdict; the proof is the referenced measurements. */
 export interface SubstituteGates {
   static: GateStatus;
@@ -90,6 +97,8 @@ export interface SubstitutionEvidence {
   verdict: Verdict;
   /** per-face verdicts, AUTHORITATIVE when present (a QUALIFIED substitute); top-level = worst face. */
   faceVerdicts?: Partial<Record<FaceSlot, Verdict>>;
+  /** per-face render sources for reviewed synthetic faces. Real faces stay represented by `faces`. */
+  faceSources?: FallbackFaceSources;
   /** named glyph-level divergences that qualify a face. */
   glyphExceptions?: GlyphException[];
   faces: FaceCoverage;
@@ -99,7 +108,7 @@ export interface SubstitutionEvidence {
   policyAction: PolicyAction;
   /** stable measurement ids behind the row. */
   measurementRefs: string[];
-  /** SPDX id of the substitute's license. */
+  /** Candidate license id or expression. SPDX when exact; stable docfonts label otherwise. */
   candidateLicense?: string | null;
   exportRule: "preserve_original_name";
 }
@@ -129,13 +138,19 @@ export interface FontFallback {
   lineBreakSafe: boolean;
   /**
    * Reviewed face coverage: which RIBBI faces this substitute is PROVEN to supply. A renderer MUST
-   * respect a face-scoped row: it can be Regular-only (e.g. Baskerville -> Bacasime, Cooper Black ->
-   * Caprasimo), and routing bold/italic to a face it lacks is wrong. NOTE: an all-false `faces` means
-   * the row is NOT face-scoped (e.g. a category fallback, whose physical font does have faces), NOT
-   * that the font has no faces - such rows render for any face. The face-aware helpers
+   * respect a face-scoped row: it can be Regular-only (e.g. Baskerville -> Bacasime), and routing
+   * bold/italic to a face it lacks is wrong. NOTE: an all-false `faces` means the row is NOT
+   * face-scoped (e.g. a category fallback, whose physical font does have faces), NOT that the font has
+   * no faces - such rows render for any face. The face-aware helpers
    * ({@link getRenderableFallbackForFace}) encode this rule for you.
    */
   faces: FaceCoverage;
+  /**
+   * Present on face-aware lookup results when docfonts knows the requested face should render from a
+   * synthetic source. Render from `from` and let the renderer synthesize the requested face. Omitted
+   * for real faces, family-level lookups, and non-face-scoped rows.
+   */
+  faceSource?: FallbackFaceSource;
   /** stable reviewed-evidence id; look the full row up in {@link SUBSTITUTION_EVIDENCE}. */
   evidenceId: string;
   /** the logical font's broad CSS category, for a last-resort generic `font-family` keyword. */