thanks! :)

@gferreira said in Preserve empty glyphs when applying defcon sort order through script: newGlyphOrder = f.naked().unicodeData.sortGlyphNames(f.templateGlyphOrder, sortDescriptors=[dict(type="cannedDesign", ascending=True, allowPseudoUnicode=True)]) f.templateGlyphOrder = newGlyphOrder Oh, interesting! Sure enough, changing glyphOrder to templateGlyphOrder fixed my script. It now works just as hoped. :) Thanks so much for point out that difference to me!

Thanks, @gferreira! That was a super helpful suggestion, including the link to the defcon docs. I find that for me, the cannedDesign sort type is seemingly identical to the "Smart Sort" option in Robofont, aside from deleting template glyphs. Still, those are easy enough to re-add manually, and something I don't need to do every time (Add Glyphs -> Import from my "Latin 1" character set... -> then select to "add as template glyphs"). So, the script I'll use is very close to your suggestion, but I prefer this sort type: font = CurrentFont() newGlyphOrder = font.naked().unicodeData.sortGlyphNames(font.glyphOrder, sortDescriptors=[dict(type="cannedDesign", ascending=True, allowPseudoUnicode=True)]) font.glyphOrder = newGlyphOrder