Apply OpenType features to one font but not another

[Rigoberto]

I’m working on a custom theme and I have embedded multiple fonts in my CSS file. I’d like to apply an OpenType feature to only one of the fonts, so I’m trying to set font-feature-settings in @font-face but it gets ignored when I do so.

This is what I have in my theme.css file as a reduced reproduction case:

@font-face {
    font-family: "sourcesans3vf-upright";
    font-feature-settings: "ss01" on;
    src: url(data:font/woff2;base64,<long base64 string here>);
}

body {
    --font-text-theme: "sourcesans3vf-upright";
    /* font-feature-settings: "ss01" on; */
}

If I uncomment the font-feature-settings line in the body, I get the expected results (a serif-ied upper-case I). If I use the code as above (attempting to set the font-feature-settings from within the @font-face), I get the normal sans serif upper case I.

The font in question is Source Sans 3 if it matters, and I’ve encoded the variable font to base64 for use in my CSS file with “Font to Base64 CSS Converter - Obsidian Custom Font Tool.“

Is there a better way to achieve what I’m trying to accomplish?

[Rigoberto]

I’m happy to report that this is now working (I just tried in Obsidian 1.12.4). It appears to have been resolved by upstream changes in Chromium (bug ID 40398871).

So I can now apply, for example, lining numbers (lnum) to every instance of a font by managing font-feature-settings in the @font-facedeclaration instead of having to find every html element that uses a given font and managing it there:

@font-face {
    font-family: "MyFont";
    font-feature-settings: "lnum" on;
    src: url(data:font/woff2;base64,<long base64 string here>);
}

Unfortunately this only appears to work with font-feature-settings. When I try using font-variant-numericthe changes are not recognized, but I’ll take it!