Re: Bug#1109668: ITP: fonttools-opentype-feature-freezer -- permanently "apply" OpenType features to fonts

On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 at 16:13:36 +0200, Bastian Germann wrote:
>OpenType Feature Freezer modifies a font file so that selected OpenType
>features are "frozen" into it. The characters that were previously only
>accessible via these features become the default characters in the modified font.
>
>This is a prerequisite for a version update for fonts-montserrat.

This also seems relevant to Kirill Rekhov's work on packaging GNOME's 
fonts-adwaita for forky - if I understand correctly, Adwaita Sans is a 
"frozen" variant of fonts-inter-variable, while Adwaita Mono is a 
"frozen" variant of the as-yet-unpackaged Iosevka font.

     smcv