@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!

@frederik said in get names of not generated list based on the selection in the font window: font.templateSelectedGlyphNames Thanks a lot, Frederik !!!

No really, it remove also the existing templateGlyphs. But: glyphOrder = [] for glyph in f.lib['public.glyphOrder']: glyphOrder.append(glyph) for glyph in myListOfGlyphs: glyphOrder.append(glyph) f.glyphOrder = glyphOrder Thanks Fredrik!

The gray template glyph cells are being build up for new UFOs from the character set in the preferences and for existing UFOs the font lib key public.glyphOrder if the lib key is existing. You can alter the data in the lib easily with interaction with the UI by: font = CurrentFont() glyphOrder = font.glyphOrder glyphOrder.remove("a") # test before removing a name if its in the list font.glyphOrder = glyphOrder # done This is sort of what happens when you alt-delete a glyph in the font overview. good luck

As mentions in red at the bottom of the preferences if you change the template font: Template glyphs preview font will be applied after a restart.

Hi Frederik, generating them with a script would be the option I'm after. Good to hear it's coming! F