About the characters that can be entered in Orata.

Hello.

Regarding the characters in the Orata series, which is limited to hiragana, there was an unexpected response.

"When you reach the upper grades of elementary school, hiragana actually looks stylish,"

they say. This is a girl's opinion. I see.

The reason I limited it to hiragana is partly due to the font used, but I also wanted to make the characters part of the design, creating an overall pattern like a watermark.

I feel that hiragana has a simpler shape than kanji and looks like a pattern from a distance.

So I wanted to arrange them continuously to create a surprise where you realize it’s a name when you look closely!

On the other hand,

"Is there a bigger one with the name in a single line?"

is also a common question,

and I received valuable feedback like,

"Since the school teachers are older, they might say they can’t see it."

We are currently considering offering a larger text type as an option.

Although limited to hiragana, it is also possible to include punctuation marks and spaces.

For names, you can insert a space between the surname and given name, but when cutting the tape, to avoid confusion between the name boundary and the surname boundary, the separation for each name will be made slightly larger.

Please understand that this will slightly reduce the number of tapes you can use as name masking tape.

(However, this does not apply to tapes where pictures are inserted between characters.)

If you don’t mind whether or not to include a space between the surname and given name, we recommend no space.

In any case, Orata will try anything it can to help you create tape that is more like yourself!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us anytime.

(Added June 19 ↓)

The Orata series now also supports printing alphabets.

Alphabets are treated as half-width characters and up to 30 characters are allowed.

It is also possible to combine hiragana and alphabets.

Not only names but also messages are okay, so why not create your own original masking tape with your favorite words?