Support for named character variants?

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In Glyphs, stylistic sets allow a feature name, but character variants do not. But it looks like a feature name is supported by the spec? Registered features, a-e (OpenType 1.8.4) - Typography | Microsoft Docs

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I expect that’ll be supported in a future version, but is not currently implemented.

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nice, that would be great. I might use stylistic sets for the time being instead, then; I don’t think there’s any harm.

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I’ve been wondering about this too. Are there any apps out there that support named cvNN features? (Maybe they’d start doing so if names started appearing in fonts.)

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Definitely a chicken-and-egg situation. Apps only recently started to display the ss## names and few even offer a UI for picking cv## features; fewer still allow for multiple choices per character variants feature.

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True that. Let’s us font people be the eggs.

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