Coffee places usually give you cardboard sleeves where your palm goes, that help with insulation.
If your hand is big enough and the cup is light enough you can support bottom of it with your pinky and the top of it with your thumb while horizontally balancing it with the rest of your fingers, you have three-finger redundancy if your coffee is too hot.
The problem with the latter approach that little finger supports most of the weight of the cup and I can't hold more than a medium coffee.
If your hand is big enough and the cup is light enough you can support bottom of it with your pinky and the top of it with your thumb while horizontally balancing it with the rest of your fingers, you have three-finger redundancy if your coffee is too hot. The problem with the latter approach that little finger supports most of the weight of the cup and I can't hold more than a medium coffee.