3+ Handles in curves

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Hi Glyphs Forum,
I recently opened IBM Plex Sans in my Glyphs app to analyse the structure of some characters and I stumbled upon a peculiar arrangement of the handles: 56|690x502
As you can see, in the italic O there are more than 2 handles in the curves, so I was asking myself the following questions:

  1. Is this approach in some way more accurate/reliable than the common 2 handles one?
  2. Is this a scripted feature or can I replicate this method with the unscripted app?
  3. I saw curves made with several handles in a presentation from Underware Foundry, Iā€™m wandering if this has something to do with higher order interpolation.

Thanks in advance for your time :slight_smile:

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These are quadratic TrueType curves. You can turn them into cubic PS outlines with Paths > Other > Convert to Cubic. (Works on many selected glyphs as well.)

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