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So far I am working on three fonts: MimosaBBFont, MimosaBPMF (zipped), MimosaDryGrass and and MimosaTso.

MimosaBBFont (zipped) is a Unicode font designed by me. I intended to make a font that resemble my own writing. It used to be a very primitive font, and using repetitive patterns to build the whole font. The stages for me to build this font is as follows:

1. I use Softy to make a very primitive font in 1998. It contains rectangles and a bent, and they make up all the numbers in this font.
2. Later, I used these primitives to make some more characters, all lower case. The font was later abandoned, due to very heavy workload at daytime.
3. On summer of 2001, I found this font again from my notebook computer. Then I tried to make the glyphs out by hand with Softy. It has become MimosaDryGrass, another font mentioned below.
4. Later I decided to work on the font again, using another fresh copy. This time, I made all the lowercase characters within 6 hours, by combining similar parts together. This is the most primitive version of MimosaBBFont.
5. Just the lowercase character is not enough, but I did not think about the uppercase character first. I decided to give some diacritics to it. Then, I have finished all the lowercase characters with diacritics.
6. After finishing the diacritics characters, I move on the lowercase characters of Latin Extended A. Just need to make more diacritics.
7. After finishing the Latin Extended A, I move on to Latin Extended B. However, problem arises:
8. • I need to adjust the design of several characters to make a noticeable distinction between characters in Row 00 and Latin Extended B.
   • Some of the characters in Latin Extended B are small caps of uppercase characters in Row 00. To finish this part, I must define some Uppercase characters.

Therefore, I have started to work on uppercase characters as well.

8. At the time when the work for Latin Extended B is going to the middle, I wish to speed up the process. I decided to buy a pack of commercial Font designer software.  I chose FontLab 3.1, as I knew many people in the Microsoft VOLT community is using this software to design their Indic fonts.  It is less expensive than the Macromedia Fontographer, yet it supports much functionality.  I spent USD399 on this product, but it turned out to be disaster.
9. Work is going on, but I still need to switch between Softy and FontLab always.  FontLab is good, but it is buggy. There are still many functionalities that I can do that in Softy with those primitive functions easily than doing so in FontLab. Of course, I still need to employ the Chinese EUDC editors as well.

Now, the MimosaBBFont contains nearly 4000 characters, with around 1100 CJK compatibility characters, and for the remaining, half of them are Latin-based characters. Here I put the characters I have encoded into a chart. You can check if this font can display the character you want. :-)

Current Plan of the character building
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MimosaBPMF is an abridged version of MimosaBBFont, where the main purpose of this font is to let others to use the BPMF symbols (¡§Zhuyin fuhao¡¨) in Traditional Chinese, which includes the recent expansion to include dialect characters. I believe this font is the first to provide such characters to users formally. :-P

MimosaDryGrass is another font derived from the above

MimosaTso is a scanned version of my 3 fonts. I just write each character on a piece of paper, and then scan them back and convert them into TrueType fonts. It contains only selected Han characters.

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