diff --git a/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml b/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml
index b777e26b..0b528ae1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/freebsd.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
         with:
           repository: storytold/craft-fonts
-          ref: abb83316d96aa59c1cf64784289e378fe9fa5695
+          ref: 8dcdacd5153e64560d109541a47d806f26f048c0
           path: craft-fonts
       - name: Build and test in a FreeBSD VM
         uses: vmactions/freebsd-vm@c46abacb49f09938ca4e1702d15d836285d694cc # v1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index efd61ace..b9c3a1ea 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
         with:
           repository: storytold/craft-fonts
-          ref: abb83316d96aa59c1cf64784289e378fe9fa5695 # bump deliberately
+          ref: 8dcdacd5153e64560d109541a47d806f26f048c0 # bump deliberately
           path: craft-fonts
       - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
         with:
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
         with:
           repository: storytold/craft-fonts
-          ref: abb83316d96aa59c1cf64784289e378fe9fa5695 # bump deliberately
+          ref: 8dcdacd5153e64560d109541a47d806f26f048c0 # bump deliberately
           path: craft-fonts
       - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
         with:
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
         with:
           repository: storytold/craft-fonts
-          ref: abb83316d96aa59c1cf64784289e378fe9fa5695 # bump deliberately
+          ref: 8dcdacd5153e64560d109541a47d806f26f048c0 # bump deliberately
           path: craft-fonts
       - name: Install build and packaging tools
         run: |
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
         with:
           repository: storytold/craft-fonts
-          ref: abb83316d96aa59c1cf64784289e378fe9fa5695 # bump deliberately
+          ref: 8dcdacd5153e64560d109541a47d806f26f048c0 # bump deliberately
           path: craft-fonts
       - name: Build and package in a FreeBSD VM (tar.gz)
         # vmactions/freebsd-vm v1.5.9, pinned by commit (it runs our build).
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@11d5960a326750d5838078e36cf38b85af677262 # v4
         with:
           repository: storytold/craft-fonts
-          ref: abb83316d96aa59c1cf64784289e378fe9fa5695 # bump deliberately
+          ref: 8dcdacd5153e64560d109541a47d806f26f048c0 # bump deliberately
           path: craft-fonts
       - uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
         with:
diff --git a/docs/releasing.md b/docs/releasing.md
index cf75fa70..84b016c0 100644
--- a/docs/releasing.md
+++ b/docs/releasing.md
@@ -53,7 +53,11 @@ their runtime dependencies.
 
 Release builds fetch the pinned [`storytold/craft-fonts`](https://github.com/storytold/craft-fonts)
 revision and require it (`CRAFT_FONTS_REQUIRED=1`). Keep that pin deliberate when updating the
-workflow.
+workflow, and bump it (in `release.yml`, five jobs, and `freebsd.yml`) whenever craft-fonts adds a face a
+shipped language needs: a stale pin still builds, it just ships tofu (issue #319: v0.4.0 pinned a revision
+from before Noto Sans CJK SC, so Simplified Chinese had no glyphs). Before a release, check the pin against
+craft-fonts' `fonts/manifest.txt` and run `CRAFT_FONTS_DIR=../craft-fonts cargo test -p lightcraft-ui-egui i18n`,
+whose glyph-coverage test fails when a language's characters have no face.
 
 ## Signing credentials