[bsder]

This article is really stretching when the conclusion is smacking him in the face: "Use quadratic Beziers."

The original article points out that quadratic Beziers have most of the desirable properties with very few of the downsides.

It used to be that the issue was that you would have to use significantly more quadratic Beziers to approximate something that a much smaller number of cubic Bezier's could do. This was a big deal when a font file might clog up a floppy disk.

Now that we're slinging around gigabyte patch files. Do we really care?