What's the status of this?

What's the status of this?

Requires axis registration decisions. We're working on the axes

I asked Petr about the status and got the following response. The takeaway is that it's currently not ready to onboard yet (as the labels accurately reflect):

What's the status of the work (other than Google’s pending axes registrations)? Is any work still expected on your side at the moment?

Yes, I asked Simon to help with adding multiple shapes in the layers, besides the one gradient set of circles.
But I did not hear back from him (in Paris he said that he had little time lately)

Currently there are two layers, but if the total file size permit, another layer could be added too.
That again has implication for the axis names.
Currently each layer has 3 axes, independent from the other COLRv1 layers and independent from the black mask pixels.
That is the ultimate way for not making all the corners for adding axes.
These will be the axes for the total project:

Regular black mask pixels
wight (Weight = Size of pixels)
slnt (Slant = Shifting the pixels. The shape of italics is defined by OT-feature)
OPEN (Splitting the pixel in 4 quadrants)
SHPE (Shape axis, where pixels morph from one into other: circles, squares, stars, diamonds, crosses, plus, etc.

COLRv1
LR1S (Scaling layer #1)
LR1X (Horizontal offset layer #1)
LR1Y (Vertical offset layer #1)
LR2S (Scaling layer #2)
LR2X (Horizontal offset layer #2)
LR2Y (Vertical offset layer #2)
(possibly a layer #3 with similar 3 axes)

And what about COLRv1?
Browsing through the files I could only find traditional b/w fonts that you color in CSS, not COLRv1 fonts. Even the one font that’s named "BitcountGrid_Double4-VF_COLRv1.ttf" didn’t show any signs of color.

I need to check in the latest version.

I make the COLRv1 tests in a very small font (only a couple of glyphs) for speedy compilation.
The whole Bitcount takes hours to compile in its complete volume.

The Github issue on google/fonts (#5468) says "COLRv1 version of bitcount.typenetwork.com under OFL", but I have the feeling that the COLRv1 description is misleading and they are meant to be colored in CSS or DTP apps.

De documentation needs to be updated still, and also the site.
Git is hosting this site in static HTML.

Once I have the full VF running, I plan to add chapters, samples and animations.
Also the documentation PDF should be updated with COLRv1 examples.

Noted and discussed with Yanone earlier today. We'll move this out from Q2 as more work is required to onboard it.

Github either only shows or only links up to 10 PRs to one issue.
Here's the complete list of PRs: https://github.com/google/fonts/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+bitcount