Hi,

i’ve got to design a brochure about an urbanism workshop that will take place in China. In fact, there will be three versions: a French, an English and a Chinese version (combined with a bit of English text). The porblem is: I know NOTHING about Chinese typography. I did read the following threads but I’m just more confuse than I was…

http://www.typophile.com/node/40032
http://www.typophile.com/node/47267
http://www.typophile.com/node/19200
http://www.typophile.com/node/38166
http://www.typophile.com/node/42433

So, basically, can you guide me about choosing a good chinese font (I don’t know yet if the text will be set in traditional or simplified version). I’m in the early stage of the design so I don’t really know what I’m looking for, but as I understand it, I’ll have to work with the font that’ll work best technically with a short squedule (must be send to print on monday, 25!!!). A formal clue: there’ll probably be some gridnik or simple in the layout.

Is there Chinese typographic “rules” that I must know?

Is there technical issues that I should be aware of (I’m using InDesign Cs3 on 10.5.4)?

Everything else that you judge important…

Please remember that I’m a newbie about chinese type so if your answer could be short and consise, I’ll appreciate! It would probably not be possible, but…

Thanks!