Contour improvements

[LisaHuang2017]

I’ve been noticing some missing extrema points, which could help a lot in improving the shapes because having these brings control over the contours + they are necessary to avoid issues with the rendering of the font.

An example here with letter /n (from the status of HuMambo from Dec. 8, 2023):

• before:

  

• with fixes (original /n is copied on the background):

  

I’ve also added some points to have segments that are seemingly straight, if that is the intention?

[LisaHuang2017]

Also, starting points should be at the most bottom left part of a contour (not done on previous screenshots, see screenshots below). To do that, you need to right click on the desired point > Make Node First.

[LisaHuang2017]

What you can do is also to select the contour that needs to have extrema points > go to Path on the top menu > Add Extremes. And Glyphs d

oes that for you wherever it is needed :)