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+# Plan 27 Phase A diagnostic evidence
+
+Date: 2026-09-06  
+Issue: [#3377](https://github.com/amruthpillai/reactive-resume/issues/3377)  
+Revision: `2a4a1583b` (`origin/main` at run start)  
+Scope: Phase A, steps 1–2 only. No resolver, runtime behavior, or remote-source behavior changed.
+
+## Drift and authority
+
+- Worktree started clean and `HEAD` matched `origin/main`; `git diff origin/main...HEAD` was empty.
+- Current catalog is `packages/fonts/src/webfontlist.json`. Its web font records point at both Google Fonts static assets and jsDelivr assets; “Google blocked” is not an offline proof.
+- Browser preview is `apps/web/src/components/typography/font-display.tsx` and calls `FontFace.load()` against each catalog preview URL.
+- Browser PDF preview/download is `apps/web/src/features/resume/export/pdf-document.tsx` → `@reactive-resume/pdf/browser`; registration is `packages/pdf/src/hooks/use-register-fonts.ts`.
+- Server PDF is `apps/server/src/http/resume-pdf.ts` → `createResumePdfDownload`; Playwright browser routing cannot observe that process’s outbound font fetches.
+- The issue is open and unmodified. PR #3455 is the approved planning PR; its plan/decision log grants execution of this bounded diagnostic and manifest evidence.
+
+## Deterministic fixture
+
+`tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-fonts.ts` seeds one disposable resume after sample creation. It writes the same text into basics and summary, hides the picture, selects IBM Plex Serif 400/700 for body and heading, and marks the row public for the server-PDF surface.
+
+The exact markers are versioned as `offline-font-scripts-v1`:
+
+| Marker | Script or coverage |
+| --- | --- |
+| `Latin punctuation • — “quotes” €` | Latin plus General Punctuation and currency |
+| `简体中文` | Han / Simplified Chinese |
+| `العربية` | Arabic |
+| `עברית` | Hebrew |
+| `ไทย` | Thai |
+| `Emoji 🚀` | Emoji |
+
+`tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts` is opt-in (`OFFLINE_FONT_DIAGNOSTIC=1`) so the normal PR E2E suite does not become network-dependent. Each surface creates a new browser context with persisted auth state, disabled service workers, and no prior browser cache. Every non-same-origin request is aborted and recorded as `{ hostname, path }`; query strings, fragments, headers, bodies, tokens, and full URLs never enter diagnostic output. Reports are attached as JSON and emitted with the same sanitized shape.
+
+The four surfaces are separate tests:
+
+1. Font picker preview opens Typography → Font Family and waits for lazy `FontFace` preview loads.
+2. Builder PDF preview navigates to the builder, captures the active PDF canvas, and measures marker-local raster crops.
+3. Browser PDF download uses the Export dialog, rasterizes the downloaded PDF, and measures marker-local crops when generation succeeds.
+4. Server PDF calls the public PDF endpoint and records text-layer marker presence when generation succeeds.
+
+Builder/browser-PDF reports keep PDF text extraction as a separate `textLayerMarkers` signal; it does not prove visible glyph outlines. Raster evidence attaches a rendered PNG and per-marker crop metrics, failing for blank or tofu-like visible crops. Blocked browser font requests classify browser surfaces as `network-error`. The server report deliberately says `server-outbound-requests-unobservable-from-playwright`; its cold-network gate remains unresolved because server outbound capture and verifiable restart identity require external host-level controls.
+
+## Run protocol and cold-cache boundary
+
+Build and database setup follow `tests/e2e/README.md`. Run each surface in a separately restarted production server process so module-level PDF font registration state cannot leak between controls:
+
+```text
+OFFLINE_FONT_DIAGNOSTIC=1 OFFLINE_FONT_DIAGNOSTIC_SERVER_RESTARTED=1 \
+  pnpm exec playwright test tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts --grep "picker preview"
+```
+
+Stop and restart the production server before repeating the command with `builder PDF`, `browser PDF`, and `server PDF` grep patterns. The environment used for this change had no built `apps/server/dist` or `apps/web/dist`, no running PostgreSQL instance, and no production server to restart, so the cold E2E matrix was not run. This is an explicit infrastructure blocker, not a pass claim. The test records `serverRestartFlag` only as caller input and labels it non-proof; it does not claim a completed cold-network gate.
+
+The current Playwright route guard cannot impose host-level egress denial on Node.js running the server. A genuinely cold server test therefore needs a separately restarted server plus host-level egress capture/deny (for example, a controlled network namespace or an approved outbound proxy). Do not infer server network behavior from an empty browser request list.
+
+## Administrator-hosted manifest proposal
+
+This is a proposal, not an asset download. It intentionally contains only the primary family and glyph fallbacks required by the fixture and current PDF fallback map, not the full catalog.
+
+```json
+{
+  "schemaVersion": "offline-fonts-v1",
+  "mode": "local-only",
+  "assetRoot": "/fonts/offline/v1",
+  "families": {
+    "IBM Plex Serif": {
+      "normal": { "400": "ibm-plex-serif/400.ttf", "700": "ibm-plex-serif/700.ttf" },
+      "italic": { "400": "ibm-plex-serif/400-italic.ttf", "700": "ibm-plex-serif/700-italic.ttf" },
+      "preview": "ibm-plex-serif/preview.ttf"
+    },
+    "IBM Plex Sans": {
+      "normal": { "400": "ibm-plex-sans/400.ttf", "700": "ibm-plex-sans/700.ttf" },
+      "italic": { "400": "ibm-plex-sans/400-italic.ttf", "700": "ibm-plex-sans/700-italic.ttf" },
+      "preview": "ibm-plex-sans/preview.ttf"
+    },
+    "Noto Serif": {
+      "normal": { "400": "noto-serif/400.ttf", "700": "noto-serif/700.ttf" },
+      "italic": { "400": "noto-serif/400-italic.ttf", "700": "noto-serif/700-italic.ttf" },
+      "preview": "noto-serif/preview.ttf"
+    },
+    "Noto Sans": {
+      "normal": { "400": "noto-sans/400.ttf", "700": "noto-sans/700.ttf" },
+      "italic": { "400": "noto-sans/400-italic.ttf", "700": "noto-sans/700-italic.ttf" },
+      "preview": "noto-sans/preview.ttf"
+    },
+    "Noto Sans SC": { "normal": { "400": "noto-sans-sc/400.ttf", "700": "noto-sans-sc/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-sans-sc/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Serif SC": { "normal": { "400": "noto-serif-sc/400.ttf", "700": "noto-serif-sc/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-serif-sc/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Sans TC": { "normal": { "400": "noto-sans-tc/400.ttf", "700": "noto-sans-tc/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-sans-tc/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Serif TC": { "normal": { "400": "noto-serif-tc/400.ttf", "700": "noto-serif-tc/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-serif-tc/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Sans JP": { "normal": { "400": "noto-sans-jp/400.ttf", "700": "noto-sans-jp/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-sans-jp/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Serif JP": { "normal": { "400": "noto-serif-jp/400.ttf", "700": "noto-serif-jp/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-serif-jp/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Sans KR": { "normal": { "400": "noto-sans-kr/400.ttf", "700": "noto-sans-kr/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-sans-kr/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Serif KR": { "normal": { "400": "noto-serif-kr/400.ttf", "700": "noto-serif-kr/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-serif-kr/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Sans Arabic": { "normal": { "400": "noto-sans-arabic/400.ttf", "700": "noto-sans-arabic/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-sans-arabic/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Naskh Arabic": { "normal": { "400": "noto-naskh-arabic/400.ttf", "700": "noto-naskh-arabic/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-naskh-arabic/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Sans Hebrew": { "normal": { "400": "noto-sans-hebrew/400.ttf", "700": "noto-sans-hebrew/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-sans-hebrew/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Sans Thai": { "normal": { "400": "noto-sans-thai/400.ttf", "700": "noto-sans-thai/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-sans-thai/preview.ttf" },
+    "Noto Emoji": { "normal": { "400": "noto-emoji/400.ttf", "700": "noto-emoji/700.ttf" }, "italic": "reuse-normal", "preview": "noto-emoji/preview.ttf" }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+### Candidate source, license, script, and size evidence
+
+Sizes are `Content-Length` bytes from a HEAD request to the exact current catalog assets on 2026-09-06. Responses reported `Content-Encoding: gzip`; these are compressed transfer-size estimates, not a claim about the eventual on-disk representation. Preview paths are aliases to the selected 400 face and add no extra bytes when stored once. Primary sources: [IBM Plex LICENSE.txt](https://github.com/IBM/plex/blob/master/LICENSE.txt), [Noto core LICENSE](https://github.com/notofonts/noto-fonts/blob/main/LICENSE), [Noto CJK Sans LICENSE](https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/blob/main/Sans/LICENSE), and [Noto Emoji font LICENSE](https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/fonts/LICENSE).
+
+| Family | Style/weights in proposal | Current catalog source version | License | Script/fallback role | Gzip bytes (selected files) | Build owner; runtime owners |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---: | --- |
+| IBM Plex Serif | normal 400/700; italic 400/700 | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/ibmplexserif/v20` | OFL 1.1, Reserved Font Name `Plex` | Primary serif; Latin and punctuation stack | 294,717 | `packages/fonts`; `apps/web` FontDisplay; `packages/pdf` registration |
+| IBM Plex Sans | normal 400/700; italic 400/700 | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/ibmplexsans/v23` | OFL 1.1, Reserved Font Name `Plex` | Primary sans | 435,469 | `packages/fonts`; `apps/web` FontDisplay; `packages/pdf` registration |
+| Noto Serif | normal 400/700; italic 400/700 | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notoserif/v33` | OFL 1.1 | Serif punctuation fallback | 1,055,120 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` fallback registration |
+| Noto Sans | normal 400/700; italic 400/700 | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notosans/v42` | OFL 1.1 | Sans punctuation fallback | 1,236,259 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` fallback registration |
+| Noto Sans SC | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notosanssc/v40` | OFL 1.1 (Noto CJK) | Simplified Han; CJK fallback | 12,766,416 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` CJK fallback |
+| Noto Serif SC | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notoserifsc/v35` | OFL 1.1 (Noto CJK) | Simplified Han serif fallback | 17,350,185 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` CJK fallback |
+| Noto Sans TC | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notosanstc/v39` | OFL 1.1 (Noto CJK) | Traditional Han fallback | 8,628,278 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` CJK fallback |
+| Noto Serif TC | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notoseriftc/v36` | OFL 1.1 (Noto CJK) | Traditional Han serif fallback | 11,804,923 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` CJK fallback |
+| Noto Sans JP | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notosansjp/v56` | OFL 1.1 (Noto CJK) | Kana and Japanese Han fallback | 6,383,035 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` CJK fallback |
+| Noto Serif JP | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notoserifjp/v33` | OFL 1.1 (Noto CJK) | Kana and Japanese Han serif fallback | 8,685,862 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` CJK fallback |
+| Noto Sans KR | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notosanskr/v39` | OFL 1.1 (Noto CJK) | Hangul and Korean Han fallback | 6,102,888 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` CJK fallback |
+| Noto Serif KR | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notoserifkr/v31` | OFL 1.1 (Noto CJK) | Hangul and Korean Han serif fallback | 11,113,442 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` CJK fallback |
+| Noto Sans Arabic | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notosansarabic/v33` | OFL 1.1 | Arabic sans fallback | 178,455 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` script fallback |
+| Noto Naskh Arabic | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notonaskharabic/v44` | OFL 1.1 | Arabic serif fallback | 190,924 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` script fallback |
+| Noto Sans Hebrew | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notosanshebrew/v50` | OFL 1.1 | Hebrew fallback for both serif/sans slots | 55,707 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` script fallback |
+| Noto Sans Thai | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notosansthai/v29` | OFL 1.1 | Thai fallback for both serif/sans slots | 55,173 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` script fallback |
+| Noto Emoji | normal 400/700; italic reuses normal | `fonts.gstatic.com/s/notoemoji/v62` | OFL 1.1 for font files; assets/tools have separate licenses | Emoji outline fallback; verify renderer support | 1,153,847 | `packages/fonts`; `packages/pdf` script fallback |
+
+Estimated transfer size for all rows and listed styles: **87,490,700 bytes (~83.44 MiB)**. This confirms why a full-catalog bundle is out of scope. A later implementation should subset by declared glyph requirements or make the administrator choose fallback families; it must not silently fetch another CDN.
+
+### Source and license obligations
+
+- Pin an upstream release/commit and retain source attribution plus the complete applicable license with hosted assets. Do not use mutable `@latest` URLs as runtime sources.
+- IBM Plex’s license has Reserved Font Name `Plex`; modified/subset outputs must follow OFL naming requirements.
+- Noto core, Noto CJK, and Noto Emoji font files are OFL 1.1, but Noto Emoji documents separate Apache/public-domain treatment for tools and flag image assets. Bundle only font files unless those other assets are intentionally needed and separately attributed.
+- License checks are build-owner responsibility (`packages/fonts`/tooling); runtime owners (`apps/web` and `packages/pdf`) consume only the validated manifest.
+
+### Missing-family and missing-asset behavior
+
+Local mode must resolve only same-origin administrator-hosted manifest paths. If imported resume data names an unavailable family, show an actionable missing-family error naming the family and required local asset; apply a configured local fallback only when the administrator explicitly supplied one. If a required weight/style/fallback asset is absent, fail the affected preview/export with an actionable diagnostic containing family/style/weight and local path. Never retry Google Fonts, jsDelivr, or any other remote URL in local mode.
+
+Standard PDF families (Helvetica, Courier, Times-Roman) remain file-free. They do not prove that a document containing punctuation, CJK, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, or emoji is network-free; the script fallback rows remain required.
+
+## Verification record
+
+Completed read-only checks before handoff:
+
+- CodeGraph exploration of font catalog, picker preview, browser PDF, server PDF, and existing fallback tests.
+- `pnpm dlx @tanstack/intent@latest list`: no matching local intent skill for this work.
+- `pnpm exec biome check tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-fonts.ts turbo.json`: passed.
+- `git diff --check`: passed.
+- `pnpm --filter @reactive-resume/fonts test`: passed (55 tests).
+- `pnpm --filter @reactive-resume/pdf exec vitest run src/hooks/use-register-fonts.test.ts`: passed (35 tests).
+- Web typography/regression suite: passed (940 tests across 135 files); web and server package typechecks passed.
+- `pnpm exec playwright test tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts --list`: passed (4 diagnostic tests collected).
+- E2E diagnostic execution: blocked by missing build outputs and unavailable PostgreSQL/server; no success claim made.
+- `pnpm exec turbo boundaries`: passed on fresh rerun (Turbo 2.10.12, 1108 files, no issues).
+
+The implementation intentionally stops at diagnostic fixtures and manifest evidence. Shared source resolution, asset hosting, local-mode configuration, and production behavior remain Phase A step 3+ work.
diff --git a/.orchestration/plan-27a-remediation-round-2.md b/.orchestration/plan-27a-remediation-round-2.md
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+# Plan 27A remediation round 2
+
+Date: 2026-09-06
+Base: `ae8e2f76f`
+
+## Focused fixes
+
+- Removed multilingual markers from the fixture headline. Each marker now exists only in its dedicated summary paragraph.
+- Added pure marker-location helpers. Marker lookup joins PDF text items, supports markers split across items, rejects duplicate occurrences, and rejects non-whitespace neighbors that could contaminate a local crop.
+- Raster measurement still scans with antialiasing padding but counts ink only inside the marker box, preventing neighboring glyphs from making blank or tofu-like evidence pass.
+- Browser PDF download now separates download errors from post-download evidence errors. A received download with failed rasterization is reported as `unresolved-raster-evidence-error` and fails the opt-in test rather than passing as a generic download error.
+- Added focused pure tests covering duplicate, split, neighboring, blank, and tofu-like cases.
+- Removed trailing spaces from `plan-27a-remediation.md`.
+
+## Verification
+
+- `pnpm exec vitest run tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-font-markers.test.ts` — 5/5 passed.
+- `pnpm exec biome check tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-fonts.ts tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-font-markers.ts tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-font-markers.test.ts` — passed.
+- `pnpm exec playwright test tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts --list` — 4 tests collected.
+- `git diff --check` — passed after remediation-document whitespace cleanup.
+
+Full diagnostic E2E remains opt-in and was not run in this focused round. Server outbound request capture and verifiable restart identity remain explicit external host-level blockers; no production resolver changes were made.
diff --git a/.orchestration/plan-27a-remediation.md b/.orchestration/plan-27a-remediation.md
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+# Plan 27A remediation
+
+Date: 2026-09-06
+Base: `61b58ae9a`
+Scope: concrete findings from `.orchestration/plan-27a-independent-review.md` only.
+
+## Remediated findings
+
+- Builder PDF preview and browser PDF download now produce raster evidence. The fixture stores each multilingual marker in its own summary paragraph, allowing the diagnostic to locate marker-local PDF text boxes and measure only those raster crops. Reports attach a rendered PNG plus per-marker `inkPixels`, trimmed dimensions, and status. Blank and tofu-like crops fail assertions; no whole-page snapshot is used.
+- PDF text extraction is reported separately as `textLayerMarkers`. It is not described or asserted as proof of visible glyph outlines.
+- Server PDF output remains text-extraction-only and is explicitly classified as `serverGateStatus: unresolved-external-host-level-blocker`. `serverRestartFlag` is caller input, not restart proof. Browser Playwright routing is not used to infer server egress, and no production resolver or instrumentation behavior was added.
+- `.orchestration/plan-27a-diagnostic.md` now records a fresh boundaries pass and the corrected `87,490,700 bytes (~83.44 MiB)` arithmetic.
+- Diagnostic remains opt-in through `OFFLINE_FONT_DIAGNOSTIC=1`; normal CI behavior remains unchanged. Request logs stay sanitized to hostname and pathname.
+
+## Verification
+
+- `pnpm exec biome check tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-fonts.ts` — passed.
+- `git diff --check` — passed.
+- `pnpm exec playwright test tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts --list` — 4 tests collected.
+- `pnpm --filter @reactive-resume/fonts test` — 55/55 passed.
+- `pnpm --filter @reactive-resume/pdf exec vitest run src/hooks/use-register-fonts.test.ts` — 35/35 passed.
+- `pnpm exec turbo boundaries` — passed on fresh rerun (Turbo 2.10.12, 1108 files, no issues).
+
+Full diagnostic E2E remains unrun because this environment lacks production build output, PostgreSQL, and a production server. Server cold-network capture and verifiable restart identity remain external host-level blockers by design; this remediation does not claim that gate is complete.
diff --git a/tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-font-diagnostic.ts b/tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-font-diagnostic.ts
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+export function assertPdfDownloadReceived(downloadStatus: string): asserts downloadStatus is "received" {
+	if (downloadStatus !== "received") {
+		throw new Error(`PDF download diagnostic did not receive a download: ${downloadStatus}`);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-font-markers.test.ts b/tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-font-markers.test.ts
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+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { assertPdfDownloadReceived } from "./offline-font-diagnostic";
+import { classifyRasterInk, classifyRasterMeasurements, locatePdfMarkerBoxes } from "./offline-font-markers";
+
+const marker = { name: "cjk", marker: "简体中文" } as const;
+
+const item = (str: string, x = 10, y = 100, width = str.length * 5) => ({
+	str,
+	x,
+	y,
+	width,
+	height: 12,
+});
+
+describe("locatePdfMarkerBoxes", () => {
+	it("rejects duplicate marker sources instead of selecting an arbitrary crop", () => {
+		const result = locatePdfMarkerBoxes([item(marker.marker), item(marker.marker, 10, 70)], [marker], 200);
+
+		expect(result).toEqual([{ ...marker, box: null }]);
+	});
+
+	it("unions text items when one marker is split across PDF text items", () => {
+		const result = locatePdfMarkerBoxes([item("简体"), item("中文", 20)], [marker], 200);
+
+		expect(result[0]?.box).toEqual({ x: 10, y: 88, width: 20, height: 12 });
+	});
+
+	it("rejects text-item neighbors that could contaminate marker-local raster evidence", () => {
+		const result = locatePdfMarkerBoxes([item(`prefix${marker.marker}suffix`)], [marker], 200);
+
+		expect(result).toEqual([{ ...marker, box: null }]);
+	});
+});
+
+describe("classifyRasterInk", () => {
+	it("does not treat a blank crop as visible", () => {
+		expect(classifyRasterInk({ inkPixels: 0, interiorInk: 0, trimmedWidth: 0, trimmedHeight: 0 })).toBe("blank");
+	});
+
+	it("does not treat tofu-like outline as visible", () => {
+		expect(classifyRasterInk({ inkPixels: 100, interiorInk: 0, trimmedWidth: 20, trimmedHeight: 20 })).toBe(
+			"tofu-like",
+		);
+	});
+
+	it("classifies raw browser measurements through shared raster classifier", () => {
+		expect(
+			classifyRasterMeasurements([
+				{ name: "blank", located: true, inkPixels: 0, interiorInk: 0, trimmedWidth: 0, trimmedHeight: 0 },
+				{ name: "tofu", located: true, inkPixels: 100, interiorInk: 0, trimmedWidth: 20, trimmedHeight: 20 },
+				{ name: "visible", located: true, inkPixels: 100, interiorInk: 20, trimmedWidth: 20, trimmedHeight: 20 },
+				{ name: "missing", located: false, inkPixels: 0, interiorInk: 0, trimmedWidth: 0, trimmedHeight: 0 },
+			]),
+		).toEqual([
+			{ name: "blank", status: "blank", inkPixels: 0, trimmedWidth: 0, trimmedHeight: 0 },
+			{ name: "tofu", status: "tofu-like", inkPixels: 100, trimmedWidth: 20, trimmedHeight: 20 },
+			{ name: "visible", status: "visible", inkPixels: 100, trimmedWidth: 20, trimmedHeight: 20 },
+			{ name: "missing", status: "not-located", inkPixels: 0, trimmedWidth: 0, trimmedHeight: 0 },
+		]);
+	});
+});
+
+describe("assertPdfDownloadReceived", () => {
+	it("fails diagnostic when browser PDF download errors", () => {
+		expect(() => assertPdfDownloadReceived("download-error")).toThrow(
+			"PDF download diagnostic did not receive a download",
+		);
+	});
+
+	it("accepts received browser PDF download", () => {
+		expect(() => assertPdfDownloadReceived("received")).not.toThrow();
+	});
+});
diff --git a/tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-font-markers.ts b/tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-font-markers.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0a956e89f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-font-markers.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+export type PdfTextItem = {
+	str: string;
+	x: number;
+	y: number;
+	width: number;
+	height: number;
+};
+
+export type PdfMarker = {
+	name: string;
+	marker: string;
+};
+
+export type PdfMarkerBox = {
+	x: number;
+	y: number;
+	width: number;
+	height: number;
+};
+
+export type PdfMarkerLocation<TMarker extends PdfMarker = PdfMarker> = TMarker & {
+	box: PdfMarkerBox | null;
+};
+
+export type RasterInkMeasurements = {
+	inkPixels: number;
+	interiorInk: number;
+	trimmedWidth: number;
+	trimmedHeight: number;
+};
+
+export type RasterGlyphStatus = "visible" | "blank" | "tofu-like";
+
+export type RasterGlyphMeasurement<TName extends string = string> = RasterInkMeasurements & {
+	name: TName;
+	located: boolean;
+};
+
+export type RasterGlyphEvidence<TName extends string = string> = Omit<RasterInkMeasurements, "interiorInk"> & {
+	name: TName;
+	status: RasterGlyphStatus | "not-located";
+};
+
+type TextItemRange = PdfTextItem & {
+	start: number;
+	end: number;
+};
+
+const textItemRanges = (textItems: PdfTextItem[]): TextItemRange[] => {
+	let offset = 0;
+	return textItems.map((item) => {
+		const start = offset;
+		offset += item.str.length;
+		return { ...item, start, end: offset };
+	});
+};
+
+const findMarkerOccurrences = (text: string, marker: string): number[] => {
+	if (marker.length === 0) return [];
+
+	const occurrences: number[] = [];
+	let start = 0;
+	while (start <= text.length - marker.length) {
+		const match = text.indexOf(marker, start);
+		if (match === -1) break;
+		occurrences.push(match);
+		start = match + marker.length;
+	}
+	return occurrences;
+};
+
+export const locatePdfMarkerBoxes = <TMarker extends PdfMarker>(
+	textItems: PdfTextItem[],
+	markers: readonly TMarker[],
+	pageHeight: number,
+): PdfMarkerLocation<TMarker>[] => {
+	const ranges = textItemRanges(textItems);
+	const text = textItems.map((item) => item.str).join("");
+
+	return markers.map((marker) => {
+		const [start] = findMarkerOccurrences(text, marker.marker);
+		const end = start === undefined ? undefined : start + marker.marker.length;
+		if (start === undefined || end === undefined || findMarkerOccurrences(text, marker.marker).length !== 1) {
+			return { ...marker, box: null };
+		}
+
+		const coveredRanges = ranges.filter((range) => range.start < end && range.end > start);
+		const firstRange = coveredRanges[0];
+		const lastRange = coveredRanges.at(-1);
+		if (!firstRange || !lastRange) return { ...marker, box: null };
+
+		const firstLocalStart = start - firstRange.start;
+		const lastLocalEnd = end - lastRange.start;
+		const leadingText = firstRange.str.slice(0, firstLocalStart);
+		const trailingText = lastRange.str.slice(lastLocalEnd);
+		if (leadingText.trim() || trailingText.trim()) return { ...marker, box: null };
+
+		const left = Math.min(...coveredRanges.map((range) => range.x));
+		const top = Math.min(...coveredRanges.map((range) => pageHeight - range.y - Math.max(range.height, 1)));
+		const right = Math.max(...coveredRanges.map((range) => range.x + Math.max(range.width, 1)));
+		const bottom = Math.max(...coveredRanges.map((range) => pageHeight - range.y));
+
+		return {
+			...marker,
+			box: {
+				x: left,
+				y: top,
+				width: Math.max(right - left, 1),
+				height: Math.max(bottom - top, 1),
+			},
+		};
+	});
+};
+
+export const classifyRasterInk = ({
+	inkPixels,
+	interiorInk,
+	trimmedWidth,
+	trimmedHeight,
+}: RasterInkMeasurements): RasterGlyphStatus => {
+	if (inkPixels === 0) return "blank";
+	const interiorRatio = interiorInk / Math.max(inkPixels, 1);
+	return interiorRatio < 0.08 && trimmedWidth >= 8 && trimmedHeight >= 8 ? "tofu-like" : "visible";
+};
+
+export const classifyRasterMeasurements = <TName extends string>(
+	measurements: readonly RasterGlyphMeasurement<TName>[],
+): RasterGlyphEvidence<TName>[] =>
+	measurements.map(({ name, located, interiorInk, ...measurements }) => ({
+		...measurements,
+		name,
+		status: located ? classifyRasterInk({ ...measurements, interiorInk }) : "not-located",
+	}));
diff --git a/tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-fonts.ts b/tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-fonts.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..912a3ea94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/e2e/fixtures/offline-fonts.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+import type { Page } from "@playwright/test";
+import { Pool } from "pg";
+
+export const offlineFontScriptSamples = [
+	{ name: "latin-punctuation", marker: "Latin punctuation • — “quotes” €" },
+	{ name: "cjk", marker: "简体中文" },
+	{ name: "arabic", marker: "العربية" },
+	{ name: "hebrew", marker: "עברית" },
+	{ name: "thai", marker: "ไทย" },
+	{ name: "emoji", marker: "Emoji 🚀" },
+] as const;
+
+const offlineFontFixtureSummary = offlineFontScriptSamples.map(({ marker }) => `<p>${marker}</p>`).join("");
+
+export type OfflineFontResumeFixture = {
+	builderURL: string;
+	slug: string;
+	username: string;
+};
+
+/** Seeds one stable multilingual document so each diagnostic surface uses identical glyph input. */
+export async function seedOfflineFontResume(page: Page): Promise<OfflineFontResumeFixture> {
+	const builderURL = page.url();
+	const resumeId = new URL(builderURL).pathname.split("/").at(-1);
+	const databaseURL = process.env.DATABASE_URL;
+	if (!resumeId || !databaseURL) throw new Error("Offline font fixture requires builder URL and DATABASE_URL.");
+
+	const pool = new Pool({ connectionString: databaseURL });
+	try {
+		const patches: Array<{ path: string[]; value: unknown }> = [
+			{ path: ["picture", "hidden"], value: true },
+			{ path: ["basics", "name"], value: "Offline Font Diagnostic Fixture" },
+			{ path: ["basics", "headline"], value: "Offline font diagnostic" },
+			// Keep each marker in one dedicated block so raster evidence can map each script to a local PDF crop.
+			{ path: ["summary", "content"], value: offlineFontFixtureSummary },
+			{ path: ["metadata", "typography", "body", "fontFamily"], value: "IBM Plex Serif" },
+			{ path: ["metadata", "typography", "body", "fontWeights"], value: ["400", "700"] },
+			{ path: ["metadata", "typography", "heading", "fontFamily"], value: "IBM Plex Serif" },
+			{ path: ["metadata", "typography", "heading", "fontWeights"], value: ["400", "700"] },
+		];
+
+		for (const patch of patches) {
+			await pool.query(
+				`update "resume"
+				 set data = jsonb_set(data, $2::text[], $3::jsonb, true),
+				     updated_at = now()
+				 where id = $1`,
+				[resumeId, patch.path, JSON.stringify(patch.value)],
+			);
+		}
+
+		await pool.query('update "resume" set is_public = true, updated_at = now() where id = $1', [resumeId]);
+		const result = await pool.query<{ slug: string; user_id: string }>(
+			'select slug, user_id from "resume" where id = $1',
+			[resumeId],
+		);
+		const row = result.rows[0];
+		if (!row) throw new Error("Offline font fixture resume was not found after seeding.");
+
+		const owner = await pool.query<{ username: string }>('select username from "user" where id = $1', [row.user_id]);
+		const ownerUsername = owner.rows[0]?.username;
+		if (!ownerUsername) throw new Error("Offline font fixture owner was not found after seeding.");
+
+		return { builderURL, slug: row.slug, username: ownerUsername };
+	} finally {
+		await pool.end();
+	}
+}
diff --git a/tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts b/tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b92661207
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/e2e/specs/offline-fonts.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,446 @@
+import type { Browser, BrowserContext, Page, TestInfo } from "@playwright/test";
+import type {
+	RasterGlyphEvidence as MarkerRasterGlyphEvidence,
+	RasterGlyphMeasurement as MarkerRasterGlyphMeasurement,
+} from "../fixtures/offline-font-markers";
+import { readFile, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { createRequire } from "node:module";
+import { getDocument } from "pdfjs-dist/legacy/build/pdf.mjs";
+import { assertPdfDownloadReceived } from "../fixtures/offline-font-diagnostic";
+import { classifyRasterMeasurements, locatePdfMarkerBoxes } from "../fixtures/offline-font-markers";
+import { offlineFontScriptSamples, seedOfflineFontResume } from "../fixtures/offline-fonts";
+import { createSampleResumeFromDashboard, openSidebarSection } from "../fixtures/resume";
+import { expect, test } from "../fixtures/test";
+
+const diagnosticEnabled = process.env.OFFLINE_FONT_DIAGNOSTIC === "1";
+const serverRestartFlag = process.env.OFFLINE_FONT_DIAGNOSTIC_SERVER_RESTARTED === "1";
+
+type BlockedRequest = {
+	hostname: string;
+	path: string;
+};
+
+type ColdContext = {
+	context: BrowserContext;
+	blockedRequests: BlockedRequest[];
+};
+
+type PdfMarkers = Record<(typeof offlineFontScriptSamples)[number]["name"], boolean>;
+
+type RasterGlyphEvidence = MarkerRasterGlyphEvidence<(typeof offlineFontScriptSamples)[number]["name"]>;
+type RasterGlyphMeasurement = MarkerRasterGlyphMeasurement<(typeof offlineFontScriptSamples)[number]["name"]>;
+
+type PdfRasterEvidence = {
+	rasterDataUrl: string;
+	textLayerMarkers: PdfMarkers;
+	referenceGlyphs: RasterGlyphEvidence[];
+	previewGlyphs: RasterGlyphEvidence[];
+};
+
+test.describe("offline font diagnostic", () => {
+	test.describe.configure({ mode: "serial" });
+	test.skip(!diagnosticEnabled, "Set OFFLINE_FONT_DIAGNOSTIC=1 to run network diagnostics.");
+	test.setTimeout(120_000);
+
+	async function createColdContext(browser: Browser, page: Page, testInfo: TestInfo): Promise<ColdContext> {
+		const baseURL = String(testInfo.project.use.baseURL ?? "http://localhost:3000");
+		const allowedOrigin = new URL(baseURL).origin;
+		const context = await browser.newContext({
+			baseURL,
+			serviceWorkers: "block",
+			storageState: await page.context().storageState(),
+		});
+		const blockedRequests: BlockedRequest[] = [];
+
+		await context.route("**/*", async (route) => {
+			const requestURL = new URL(route.request().url());
+			if (requestURL.origin === allowedOrigin || requestURL.protocol === "data:" || requestURL.protocol === "blob:") {
+				await route.continue();
+				return;
+			}
+
+			blockedRequests.push({ hostname: requestURL.hostname, path: requestURL.pathname });
+			await route.abort("blockedbyclient");
+		});
+
+		return { context, blockedRequests };
+	}
+
+	function extractedMarkerResult(text: string): PdfMarkers {
+		return Object.fromEntries(
+			offlineFontScriptSamples.map((sample) => [sample.name, text.includes(sample.marker)]),
+		) as PdfMarkers;
+	}
+
+	function networkStatus(blockedRequests: BlockedRequest[]) {
+		return blockedRequests.length > 0 ? "network-error" : "no-browser-network-error";
+	}
+
+	async function readPdfText(bytes: Uint8Array) {
+		const loadingTask = getDocument({ data: bytes, useSystemFonts: false });
+		try {
+			const document = await loadingTask.promise;
+			const pages: string[] = [];
+			for (let pageNumber = 1; pageNumber <= document.numPages; pageNumber += 1) {
+				const pdfPage = await document.getPage(pageNumber);
+				pages.push(
+					(await pdfPage.getTextContent()).items.flatMap((item) => ("str" in item ? [item.str] : [])).join(""),
+				);
+			}
+			return pages.join("\n");
+		} finally {
+			await loadingTask.destroy();
+		}
+	}
+
+	async function capturePdfBytes(page: Page) {
+		await page.addInitScript(() => {
+			const read = Blob.prototype.arrayBuffer;
+			Blob.prototype.arrayBuffer = async function () {
+				const buffer = await read.call(this);
+				const bytes = new Uint8Array(buffer);
+				if (String.fromCharCode(...bytes.subarray(0, 5)) === "%PDF-") {
+					(window as Window & { offlineFontPdfBytes?: number[] }).offlineFontPdfBytes = Array.from(bytes);
+				}
+				return buffer;
+			};
+		});
+	}
+
+	async function renderPdfRasterEvidence(page: Page, bytes: Uint8Array): Promise<PdfRasterEvidence> {
+		const require = createRequire(`${process.cwd()}/package.json`);
+		await page.route("**/__offline_font_pdfjs/*", async (route) => {
+			const worker = new URL(route.request().url()).pathname.endsWith("worker.mjs");
+			await route.fulfill({
+				contentType: "text/javascript",
+				path: require.resolve(`pdfjs-dist/legacy/build/${worker ? "pdf.worker.mjs" : "pdf.mjs"}`),
+			});
+		});
+
+		const textEvidence = await page.evaluate(
+			async ({ bytes }) => {
+				const moduleUrl = `${location.origin}/__offline_font_pdfjs/pdf.mjs`;
+				const pdfjs: typeof import("pdfjs-dist/legacy/build/pdf.mjs") = await import(moduleUrl);
+				pdfjs.GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = `${location.origin}/__offline_font_pdfjs/worker.mjs`;
+				const loadingTask = pdfjs.getDocument({ data: Uint8Array.from(bytes), useSystemFonts: false });
+				try {
+					const pdfDocument = await loadingTask.promise;
+					const pdfPage = await pdfDocument.getPage(1);
+					const textContent = await pdfPage.getTextContent();
+					return {
+						pageHeight: pdfPage.getViewport({ scale: 1 }).height,
+						textItems: textContent.items.flatMap((item) =>
+							"str" in item
+								? [
+										{
+											str: item.str,
+											x: item.transform[4] ?? 0,
+											y: item.transform[5] ?? 0,
+											width: item.width,
+											height: Math.max(item.height, Math.abs(item.transform[3] ?? 0), 1),
+										},
+									]
+								: [],
+						),
+					};
+				} finally {
+					await loadingTask.destroy();
+				}
+			},
+			{ bytes: Array.from(bytes) },
+		);
+		const boxes = locatePdfMarkerBoxes(textEvidence.textItems, offlineFontScriptSamples, textEvidence.pageHeight);
+		const textLayerMarkers = extractedMarkerResult(textEvidence.textItems.map(({ str }) => str).join(""));
+
+		const rasterEvidence = await page.evaluate(
+			async ({ bytes, boxes }) => {
+				const moduleUrl = `${location.origin}/__offline_font_pdfjs/pdf.mjs`;
+				const pdfjs: typeof import("pdfjs-dist/legacy/build/pdf.mjs") = await import(moduleUrl);
+				pdfjs.GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = `${location.origin}/__offline_font_pdfjs/worker.mjs`;
+				const loadingTask = pdfjs.getDocument({ data: Uint8Array.from(bytes), useSystemFonts: false });
+				try {
+					const pdfDocument = await loadingTask.promise;
+					const pdfPage = await pdfDocument.getPage(1);
+					const baseViewport = pdfPage.getViewport({ scale: 1 });
+					const rasterScale = 4;
+					const viewport = pdfPage.getViewport({ scale: rasterScale });
+					const raster = globalThis.document.createElement("canvas");
+					raster.width = Math.ceil(viewport.width);
+					raster.height = Math.ceil(viewport.height);
+					const rasterContext = raster.getContext("2d");
+					if (!rasterContext) throw new Error("Missing PDF raster context.");
+					await pdfPage.render({
+						canvas: raster,
+						canvasContext: rasterContext,
+						viewport,
+						annotationMode: pdfjs.AnnotationMode.DISABLE,
+						background: "white",
+					}).promise;
+
+					function measure(canvas: HTMLCanvasElement, scale: number): RasterGlyphMeasurement[] {
+						const context = canvas.getContext("2d");
+						if (!context) throw new Error("Missing PDF preview raster context.");
+						const pixels = context.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
+						return boxes.map(({ name, box }) => {
+							if (!box)
+								return {
+									name,
+									located: false,
+									inkPixels: 0,
+									interiorInk: 0,
+									trimmedWidth: 0,
+									trimmedHeight: 0,
+								};
+							const markerLeft = box.x * scale;
+							const markerTop = box.y * scale;
+							const markerRight = (box.x + box.width) * scale;
+							const markerBottom = (box.y + box.height) * scale;
+							const padding = 2 * scale;
+							const left = Math.max(0, Math.floor(box.x * scale - padding));
+							const top = Math.max(0, Math.floor(box.y * scale - padding));
+							const right = Math.min(canvas.width, Math.ceil((box.x + box.width) * scale + padding));
+							const bottom = Math.min(canvas.height, Math.ceil((box.y + box.height) * scale + padding));
+							let inkPixels = 0;
+							let minX = right;
+							let minY = bottom;
+							let maxX = left;
+							let maxY = top;
+							for (let y = top; y < bottom; y += 1) {
+								for (let x = left; x < right; x += 1) {
+									// Scan with padding for antialiasing, but count ink only inside marker box.
+									// Neighboring glyphs must never make blank/tofu marker evidence pass.
+									if (x < markerLeft || x >= markerRight || y < markerTop || y >= markerBottom) continue;
+									const index = (y * pixels.width + x) * 4;
+									const red = pixels.data[index] ?? 255;
+									const green = pixels.data[index + 1] ?? 255;
+									const blue = pixels.data[index + 2] ?? 255;
+									if (red >= 245 && green >= 245 && blue >= 245) continue;
+									inkPixels += 1;
+									minX = Math.min(minX, x);
+									minY = Math.min(minY, y);
+									maxX = Math.max(maxX, x);
+									maxY = Math.max(maxY, y);
+								}
+							}
+							if (inkPixels === 0) {
+								return { name, located: true, inkPixels, interiorInk: 0, trimmedWidth: 0, trimmedHeight: 0 };
+							}
+							let interiorInk = 0;
+							for (
+								let y = minY + Math.floor((maxY - minY + 1) * 0.2);
+								y < maxY - Math.floor((maxY - minY + 1) * 0.2);
+								y += 1
+							) {
+								for (
+									let x = minX + Math.floor((maxX - minX + 1) * 0.2);
+									x < maxX - Math.floor((maxX - minX + 1) * 0.2);
+									x += 1
+								) {
+									const index = (y * pixels.width + x) * 4;
+									if (
+										(pixels.data[index] ?? 255) < 245 ||
+										(pixels.data[index + 1] ?? 255) < 245 ||
+										(pixels.data[index + 2] ?? 255) < 245
+									)
+										interiorInk += 1;
+								}
+							}
+							const trimmedWidth = maxX - minX + 1;
+							const trimmedHeight = maxY - minY + 1;
+							return { name, located: true, inkPixels, interiorInk, trimmedWidth, trimmedHeight };
+						});
+					}
+
+					const preview = document.querySelector<HTMLCanvasElement>('[aria-hidden="false"] canvas');
+					return {
+						rasterDataUrl: raster.toDataURL(),
+						referenceGlyphs: measure(raster, rasterScale),
+						previewGlyphs: preview ? measure(preview, preview.width / baseViewport.width) : [],
+					};
+				} finally {
+					await loadingTask.destroy();
+				}
+			},
+			{ bytes: Array.from(bytes), boxes },
+		);
+		return {
+			...rasterEvidence,
+			referenceGlyphs: classifyRasterMeasurements(rasterEvidence.referenceGlyphs),
+			previewGlyphs: classifyRasterMeasurements(rasterEvidence.previewGlyphs),
+			textLayerMarkers,
+		};
+	}
+
+	async function report(testInfo: TestInfo, name: string, reportData: Record<string, unknown>) {
+		const body = JSON.stringify({
+			version: 1,
+			fixture: "offline-font-scripts-v1",
+			surface: name,
+			...reportData,
+		});
+		expect(body).not.toMatch(/https?:\/\/|[?&](token|secret|password|auth)=/i);
+		await testInfo.attach(`${name}.json`, { body, contentType: "application/json" });
+		console.log(`[offline-fonts] ${body}`);
+	}
+
+	test("captures cold font picker preview requests", async ({ browser, authPage: seedPage }, testInfo) => {
+		await createSampleResumeFromDashboard(seedPage, testInfo);
+		const fixture = await seedOfflineFontResume(seedPage);
+		const cold = await createColdContext(browser, seedPage, testInfo);
+		const page = await cold.context.newPage();
+		try {
+			await page.goto(fixture.builderURL);
+			await openSidebarSection(page, "Typography");
+			await page.getByRole("combobox").first().click();
+			await expect(page.getByRole("option").first()).toBeVisible();
+			await page.waitForTimeout(1_000);
+			await report(testInfo, "picker-preview", {
+				cache: "new-browser-context",
+				blockedExternalFontRequests: cold.blockedRequests,
+				networkStatus: networkStatus(cold.blockedRequests),
+				glyphStatus: "not-applicable-picker-only",
+			});
+		} finally {
+			await cold.context.close();
+		}
+	});
+
+	test("captures cold builder PDF preview and classifies glyph/network results", async ({
+		browser,
+		authPage: seedPage,
+	}, testInfo) => {
+		await createSampleResumeFromDashboard(seedPage, testInfo);
+		const fixture = await seedOfflineFontResume(seedPage);
+		const cold = await createColdContext(browser, seedPage, testInfo);
+		const page = await cold.context.newPage();
+		await capturePdfBytes(page);
+		try {
+			await page.goto(fixture.builderURL);
+			await page.waitForTimeout(5_000);
+			const previewCanvas = page.locator('[aria-hidden="false"] canvas').first();
+			const canvasVisible = await previewCanvas.isVisible().catch(() => false);
+			const pdfBytes = await page.evaluate(
+				() => (window as Window & { offlineFontPdfBytes?: number[] }).offlineFontPdfBytes,
+			);
+			expect(pdfBytes).toBeDefined();
+			const rasterEvidence = pdfBytes ? await renderPdfRasterEvidence(page, Uint8Array.from(pdfBytes)) : null;
+			if (rasterEvidence) {
+				await testInfo.attach("builder-preview-raster.png", {
+					body: Buffer.from(rasterEvidence.rasterDataUrl.split(",")[1] ?? "", "base64"),
+					contentType: "image/png",
+				});
+				expect(rasterEvidence.previewGlyphs).toHaveLength(offlineFontScriptSamples.length);
+				expect(rasterEvidence.previewGlyphs.every(({ status }) => status === "visible")).toBe(true);
+			}
+			expect(canvasVisible).toBe(true);
+			await report(testInfo, "builder-preview", {
+				cache: "new-browser-context",
+				blockedExternalFontRequests: cold.blockedRequests,
+				networkStatus: networkStatus(cold.blockedRequests),
+				canvasVisible,
+				textLayerMarkers: rasterEvidence?.textLayerMarkers ?? "not-extracted",
+				glyphStatus: rasterEvidence?.previewGlyphs ?? "not-rasterized",
+			});
+		} finally {
+			await cold.context.close();
+		}
+	});
+
+	test("captures cold browser PDF download and classifies extracted glyphs", async ({
+		browser,
+		authPage: seedPage,
+	}, testInfo) => {
+		await createSampleResumeFromDashboard(seedPage, testInfo);
+		const fixture = await seedOfflineFontResume(seedPage);
+		const cold = await createColdContext(browser, seedPage, testInfo);
+		const page = await cold.context.newPage();
+		let markerResultValue: PdfMarkers | null = null;
+		let rasterEvidence: PdfRasterEvidence | null = null;
+		let downloadStatus = "not-started";
+		let rasterEvidenceStatus = "not-attempted";
+		try {
+			await page.goto(fixture.builderURL);
+			await openSidebarSection(page, "Export");
+			await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Choose PDF, DOCX, Markdown, or JSON/ }).click();
+			const downloadPromise = page.waitForEvent("download", { timeout: 20_000 });
+			await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Download PDF", exact: true }).click();
+			const download = await downloadPromise;
+			downloadStatus = "received";
+			const path = testInfo.outputPath("offline-font-browser-download.pdf");
+			await download.saveAs(path);
+			const bytes = new Uint8Array(await readFile(path));
+			try {
+				markerResultValue = extractedMarkerResult(await readPdfText(bytes));
+				rasterEvidence = await renderPdfRasterEvidence(page, bytes);
+				await testInfo.attach("browser-download-raster.png", {
+					body: Buffer.from(rasterEvidence.rasterDataUrl.split(",")[1] ?? "", "base64"),
+					contentType: "image/png",
+				});
+				rasterEvidenceStatus = "received";
+			} catch {
+				rasterEvidenceStatus = "unresolved-raster-evidence-error";
+			}
+		} catch {
+			downloadStatus = "download-error";
+		} finally {
+			await report(testInfo, "browser-download", {
+				cache: "new-browser-context",
+				blockedExternalFontRequests: cold.blockedRequests,
+				networkStatus: networkStatus(cold.blockedRequests),
+				downloadStatus,
+				rasterEvidenceStatus,
+				textLayerMarkers: markerResultValue ?? "not-extracted",
+				glyphStatus: rasterEvidence?.referenceGlyphs ?? "not-rasterized",
+			});
+			await cold.context.close();
+		}
+		assertPdfDownloadReceived(downloadStatus);
+		expect(rasterEvidenceStatus).toBe("received");
+		expect(rasterEvidence).not.toBeNull();
+		if (!rasterEvidence) return;
+		expect(rasterEvidence.referenceGlyphs).toHaveLength(offlineFontScriptSamples.length);
+		expect(rasterEvidence.referenceGlyphs.every(({ status }) => status === "visible")).toBe(true);
+	});
+
+	test("exercises restarted-server PDF and records server observability boundary", async ({
+		browser,
+		authPage: seedPage,
+	}, testInfo) => {
+		await createSampleResumeFromDashboard(seedPage, testInfo);
+		const fixture = await seedOfflineFontResume(seedPage);
+		const cold = await createColdContext(browser, seedPage, testInfo);
+		const page = await cold.context.newPage();
+		let responseStatus = "not-requested";
+		let markerResultValue: PdfMarkers | null = null;
+		try {
+			await page.goto(fixture.builderURL);
+			if (!serverRestartFlag) {
+				responseStatus = "blocked-before-request";
+			} else {
+				const response = await page.request.get(
+					`/api/resumes/${encodeURIComponent(fixture.username)}/${encodeURIComponent(fixture.slug)}/pdf`,
+				);
+				responseStatus = String(response.status());
+				if (response.ok()) {
+					const bytes = await response.body();
+					await writeFile(testInfo.outputPath("offline-font-server.pdf"), bytes);
+					markerResultValue = extractedMarkerResult(await readPdfText(new Uint8Array(bytes)));
+				}
+			}
+		} finally {
+			await report(testInfo, "server-pdf", {
+				cache: "new-browser-context; server-process-state-is-external",
+				serverRestartFlag,
+				serverGateStatus: "unresolved-external-host-level-blocker",
+				blockedExternalFontRequests: cold.blockedRequests,
+				networkStatus: "server-outbound-requests-unobservable-from-playwright",
+				responseStatus,
+				textLayerMarkers: markerResultValue ?? "not-extracted",
+				glyphStatus: "not-rasterized-server-surface",
+				limitation:
+					"Server outbound request capture and verifiable restart identity remain unresolved external host-level blockers; the caller flag is not restart proof. Playwright route interception sees browser requests only; do not treat this run as a cold-network gate.",
+			});
+			await cold.context.close();
+		}
+	});
+});
diff --git a/turbo.json b/turbo.json
index ee5384e87..d95fde1ec 100644
--- a/turbo.json
+++ b/turbo.json
@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@
 		"FLAG_SHOW_SPONSORS",
 		"FLAG_ALLOW_UNSAFE_OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI",
 		"FLAG_ALLOW_UNSAFE_AI_BASE_URL",
-		"AI_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS"
+		"AI_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS",
+		"OFFLINE_FONT_DIAGNOSTIC",
+		"OFFLINE_FONT_DIAGNOSTIC_SERVER_RESTARTED"
 	],
 	"tasks": {
 		"transit": {