History
The Development of our Orach Technic font, began in 1988. at our company UNCIJAL
driven by the lack of one-line multilingual fonts.
This work was later continued by our current company infoForm.
Before that, we used mechanical pantograph machines for engraving.
With them, it was possible to engrave Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Arabic scripts in the
same or at least similar style. Even today, 35 years later,
this level of multilingual integration is still difficult to achieve.
Serbia, where this font was made, it is located at the crossroads of East and West,
It is surrounded by countries that use Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts.
In Serbia, both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are used equally.
Our engraving website is: graviranje.rs
Serbian Cyrillic is the only phonetic script in the world—we write the way we speak.
Just a few kilometers from our location, the oldest known script was discovered: Vinča script
dating back to the Neolithic period, between the 6th and 5th millennia BC, found in Vinča.
In the late 80s, to make these font we had to make
In the late 1980s, in order to create this font, we had to develop everything from scratch
from software to hardware solutions.
Orach Engraving Software, Orach Font Editor in Borland-C on Win 3.11
Only then did we create the Orach One-line font in our InfoFORM .eff (Engraving font format)
At that time, font editors for one-line fonts could not be purchased from engraving machine manufacturers,
who had only just begun producing CNC machines.
For this development, programmers, designers, and typographers were involved.
For graphic font design, we purchased both a Macintosh and an IBM PC and Fontographer,
in 1989 NeXTstation with FireWire laser printer and FontStudio, which cost a fortune,
as far as I remember, it started to be sold in Europe the following year 1990.
The NeXTstation opened new worlds of design to us.
It worked successfully for 10 years, and we still keep it as a rarity.
(After the NeXTstation, we used Power Macintosh, then a few PCs every 4-5 years,
and now we use an Apple and PC.
We ordered and purchased catalogs from the largest suppliers Typographical houses at that time,
Adobe, Berthold, Bitstream, Font company, ITC, Letraset, Monotype, etc.
Yes, the catalogs were purchased, and they were not cheap.
For two years, one designer scanned, copied, enlarged, and arranged all of this in 64 registes.
Of course, there was no internet back then. Today, with the internet, it seems unreal,
but even after 35 years, many things still look different on paper than they do on an internet monitor.
We also checked all of the world's Engraving software and Engraving fonts.
We spoke with many manufacturers of engraving machines and lasers, as well as typographers,
and gained a wealth of experience.
Our Engraving PORTAL (First, the site engraving-key.com, followed by e-engraving.com)
now available on our website graviranje.rs.
We never sold this programs it was not made in this purpose, program was made for our needs.
But the font has been continuously made until today, and we continuosly engraved with him,
constantly worked on it, corrected a things in the work and added new characters and glyphs,
only Orach Technic the Greek font has 32 versions for 35 years.
This 2022. we are completely done Devanagari-India, with wich write 720 million people.
Today, one Apple 27 never turns off, neither day nor night,
it is connected to our continuously power supply, so, it remains ON even when there is no electricity,
on Sundays, holidays, and at night, Orach Technic Pro is here, ready for work.
The love of letters drives all of this; you can't pay someone to do it.
Even my wife, who is a trained engraver, asks what I do so much in the middle of the night.
She is convinced that I love letters more than her... :)
This text only mentions some of the facts; it would be a bit much to write a book about it.
Orach Technic Pro font Familly
Orach Technic Pro family has three styles, picture below, as .ttf (TrueType) or .otf (PostScript) fonts,
and it is intended for Graphic and Machine needs.
One-line Orach Technic Pro, is complete of 5.770 individual glyphs as .pdf (.eps) files
It is intended for generating single-line fonts in various formats, such as:
.CHR (Borland); .shx (AutoCAD); .LZ2 (Lang); .CAR (Gravograph); .eff (infoFORM) etc.
Which are not compatible with graphic programs such as Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw.
Orach Technic Pro Magic Multiline
Unique in the world of engraving is the possibility of engraving two or three styles of font weight
with the same tool, by simply writing Thin, Light and Regular styles Orach Technic one over the other
as 1L, 2L and 3L fonts. Before that, it allows writing big letters with small knives, for example:
With 3mm knives it is possible to engrave letters 100mm high, with 6mm 200mm leters.
Orach Technic Pro Multiline 1, 2, 3
Orach Technic Pro Specificities
Orach Technic Pro has many specific features that are not just the designer's whims,
but rather the result of a specific need to write something unambiguously in technical engraving.
One such feature is our Roman numerals, which we created back in 1989.
Whoever "Where have we seen these numbers written like this? Don’t invent things unnecessarily."
The explanation that we hadn’t invented them, and that they were a solution used by old engraving and typographic workshops, didn’t help... no, no, no... unbelievable.
How do you tell the difference on a jacket that says XL ?
Is it size XL or size 40 we ask, but they're not concerned with that.
What matters to them is how the world's largest typographical houses do it (I won't mention their names).
We don't share their opinion in this case; we are completely ourselves with Orach Technic Pro.
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In our company infoForm we created software for engraving and single-line font.
Why this was not enough? Practice and life demanded something more.
The designer draws a table of his product and sends a request to make such a table.
It was done, for example, with the Ariel in CorelDraw. We can redraw it all and write it with our one-line font,
BUT the font cannot be simply replaced, the letters are different sizes and widths and nothing fits,
everything must be drawn again.
Drawing time takes a few hours, while engraving takes just a few minutes.
The price of the table becomes unexpectedly high.
It happened that the worker drew several tables all day looking at the printed request on paper,
and that at the end of the day the machine does it in 10 minutes.
It's not a problem that it's one day a week or a month, but it happened every day, more or less.
How to enable the designer draw the table in the graphic programs they use,
and that we can do it easily and cheaply. Or how do we design a table in powerful graphic programs
such as Adobe Illustrator, to present it to the customer, and to do it easily and quickly.
This is how the Orach Tehnic Pro family was born.
A designer or mechanical engineer creates a table in AutoCAD, Illustrator, or Corel using the
ProGraf font style, which they use for their documentation and then send to us.
We simply replace the font style with ProGrav and replicate it identically in the graphic design
using a 1/12H knife tool, because the ProGrav font is centered within the ProGraf and ProCAD fonts.
Later, it became clear that ProCAD and ProGraf are ideal for other applications,
such as Orach School and Orach Mobile.
* Why does the font have no style names ProGrav, ProCAD and ProGraf.
The reason is that the Microsoft operating system does not support these names as font styles
and they had to be Thin, Light and Regular.
On Apple computers, they can be named ProGrav, ProCAD, ProGraf as .otf files,
and it all looks nice, but it is not used in the industry. For graphic preparation, of course, it can be used.
By default, we use the same styles for Apple computers as we do for PCs.
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You can see more details at the links below.
all Countries - all Languages - all Characters - all Keyboards - all Alphabets
all Unicode Characters
Font support >170 Windows Keyboards and >100 Language
(Total can write with more than 1600 languages)
Total 5.845 Glyphs
17.535 Glyphs in all Three styles +
Optional 5.584 One-line files.
Orach Technic Pro 6.35 - All glyphs
(.pdf document, 56MB, 108pages)
* 01.01.2023 - Modern Braille inside for 35 years Orach Technic
