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Orach Technic CJK MANIFEST


Protokol - Orach Technic CJK

This chapter contains exclusively internal technical and development guidelines
and is not intended for public presentation on the website.

Its purpose is to document the key decisions, dilemmas, and directions of development that stand behind the project,
serving as a reference for future work and for later versions of the font.

This Protocol represents a comprehensive framework connecting design, technology, and the production process.
Although this information is primarily of a working nature, it provides an important record of the way
of thinking, the technological limitations, and the compromises that accompany the development
of such a complex writing system within a unified typographic family.

The development of the CJK font within this project is not viewed merely as a typographic task,
but also as a process of translating diverse technical constraints into a coherent whole.
In this sense, every ideogram, every proportion, and every line of the cutting tool
represents a fusion of technology and contemporary design thinking.

All that we say about the Orach Technic Pro and Orach Technic CJK fonts,
about the alignment of writing techniques with engraving technology,
may appear to many designers and typographers as abstract or even as an “empty story.”



The reason is simple:
Most of them have no real insight into what is actually required for a CNC engraving machine
to truly work with a font—not in theory, but under real production conditions.

An illustrative example is a remark by one of the world’s most renowned typographers,
now retired, who once said in conversation:
“I have never seen a CNC engraving machine in my life.”

Naturally, he also added that he had never heard of a font editor designed specifically for CNC engraving.
There is no criticism in that statement, but rather a clear boundary between two worlds
the world of classical digital typography and the world of the industrial application of writing.

It is precisely in this space between design
and the machine that the essence of the Orach Technic project resides.

In industrial terms, the development of engraving and CNC technologies at a serious,
systematic level for decades has been primarily the domain of Germany.

It was within those state-funded research and development centers that standards of
precision, tools, and processes were established, which still form the foundation of modern industrial production today.

In this sense, the German engineering tradition represents for industrial engraving
what Morisawa represents for graphic typography in the world of CJK scripts
a unique, systematic, and long-term standard.

Just as Morisawa is the only organization that has truly shaped and standardized CJK script
into a visually complete and coherent system at the highest level,
so too have German institutions been the only ones to consistently and thoroughly develop
industrial engraving as a technological discipline.

The Orach Technic project emerges precisely at this point of intersection:
between German engineering precision and Japanese graphic systematization,
between the machine and the sign, between the tool and the script.

The first thing we had to have before starting such an extensive project was the Unicode CJK character lists.



These 13 Unicode lists have a total of about 2,000 pages and define 102,000 ideograms.
and they form the basis of every CJK Unicode number.
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What we can offer today

Orach Technic Pro 6.35 - All glyphs
(.pdf document, 56MB, 108 page)

Orach Technic STENCIL Pro 6.35 - All glyphs
(.pdf document, 3MB, 60 page)

*Orach Technic Pro is a InfoFORM's (Belgrade-Serbia) font, developed from 1988 to 2025.