diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index b4656ae5e..3be93f547 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "gflanguages"]
 	path = gflanguages
 	url = https://github.com/googlefonts/gflanguages
+[submodule "axisregistry"]
+	path = axisregistry
+	url = https://github.com/googlefonts/axisregistry
diff --git a/axisregistry b/axisregistry
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..bf07443b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/axisregistry
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit bf07443b7ee6b392a9513a5af22c42225fc21abc