[TheRealPomax]

I'll let you in on a secret: neither do I. Thankfully, it turns out that "I need to know this to do a thing" is enough to get into it, and teaming up with folks who know way more than you do is basically the perfect learning opportunity =D

(I originally dug into Beziers because I was several levels deep into "Processing.js's text-in-a-box fitting is bad, how can I fix that". Queue learning how OpenType works, how TTF/CFF works, how Beziers work, writing up a code playground tutorial before we really had code playgrounds, and then going "...I can use this for more, can't I?"... And thanks to that I've talked to far smarter people with formal training in both the type design and maths communities. I still consider myself an amateur, but an amateur with expert acquaintances =)