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Orach Technic CJK MANIFEST


What is the Orach Technic CJK Manifest?

This manifesto marks not only the preparation phase of a new typeface,
but the beginning of a shared vision.

The Orach Technic CJK project is conceived as a bridge between two worlds
the world of ideographs and the world of alphabetic letters.

Unlike many historical manifestos shaped by conflict, power, or division,
this one is built on cooperation, respect, and continuity.

It is an open invitation to shared responsibility, shared knowledge, and shared future.
Through design, structure, and precision, this project seeks not separation, but unity.

This manifesto marks preparation phase for the CJK extension of the Orach Technic typeface.
It presents our goals, methods, and reasons for starting this project.
It also defines our responsibilities toward the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.

The document sets the plan and the scope for the next major stage of the Orach Technic system.
The article Continuous of the Orach Technic Pro Project explains why we created the original typeface.
At that time, there was no font that combined technical drawing and graphic design into one system.
Even today, such a font does not exist.

Orach Technic Pro represents the structure of technical writing
and is used in education, training, and engineering.

We decided to start the CJK project for the same reason.
A multilingual and multi-technical font equivalent to Orach Technic Pro
does not exist in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.

Unicode 17 defines around 102,000 CJK ideographs. Morisawa, a leading CJK type foundry,
reports that its UD Shin Go (CJK) font contains 524,159 glyphs in 24 weights

What is most important to emphasize here is that within the Unicode CJK standard
the same character may have different graphical forms in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
depending on the language and font, even though it is technically treated as a single Unicode symbol.   
For a workload of this scale, using our three styles plus one monoline style
it would take us 100 years of work with our current capacity.

CJK fonts also contain many symbols no longer used in everyday language.
They include historical characters from the Han, Tang, Song, and Edo periods.
These characters are used mainly in research, not in modern writing.

To understand what is used today, we searched for a Unicode list of modern, everyday characters.
Such a list does not exist publicly.

We reviewed school and university requirements in China, Japan, and Korea.
These programs define two or sometimes three levels of necessary characters.
The base of the system is Simplified Chinese (SC).

After defining what speakers of these three languages learn in school
we compiled three documents and aligned them with the Unicode standard:

China - 3,500 常用
Japan - 2,136 常用漢字
Korea - 1,804 educational Hanja

The core of the manifesto is the drawing of these 7,440 basic Singleline character
and an additional 22,320 derived characters for the Thin, Light, and Regular styles.

This is a scope of work that we can realistically plan and technically execute
If we were to work at maximum capacity and finance the project with our own resources
the estimate is that the Orach Technic CJK font could be completed by the end of 2028.
which symbolically represents 40 years of our work on this script

What these two major font:
Orach Technic Pro (5,845 characters)
Orach Technic CJK (7,440 characters)
could mean for engineering and education worldwide is left for others to assess.        


May 2025
infoFORM
Belgrade, Serbia
www.design.rs

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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.