To change the order of the glyphs within a font select one of the options from the Sort Glyphs submenu in the Tools menu.

With all but the From File option, these glyphs (if available) will always come first in the new order.

•.notdef

•.null

•nonmarkingreturn

•space

 

Note that the .null and nonmarkingreturn glyphs are no longer required, but it remains important to have the .notdef glyph as first glyph. More information about these special glyphs can be found here: Recommended Glyphs.

Design mode

Glyphs will be sorted by these rules:

•Glyphs are grouped together, starting with capital letters, then lowercase, etc. Each group is followed by the accompanying alternate forms.

Unicode code-points

Glyphs will be sorted by these rules:

•Glyphs are sorted by their code-points

Glyph names

Glyphs will be sorted by these rules:

•The glyphs are sorted by their glyph names

Glyph type (empty, simple, composite)

Glyphs will be sorted by these rules:

•The glyphs are sorted by their glyph type

•Then all remaining glyphs are sorted by their glyph names

Alphanumeric

Glyphs will be sorted by these rules:

•The glyphs are sorted by their mapped character. This features uses default compare functions as used in Windows.

From File

Glyphs will be sorted by the order of the glyph names. You can either use a plain text file; per line one glyph name. You can also provide a UFO lib.plist file.