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Jonta New user 9 Posts |
"Anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely-regarded as a satisfactory
length of line for a single-column page set in a serifed text face in a text size. The 66-character line (counting both letters and spaces) is widely regarded as ideal." - The Elements of Typographic Style Perhaps that's not true for screens: https://www.viget.com/articles/the-line-......ception/ Nevertheless: At 100% zoom, the skinniest the site will go is about 95 characters per line "But that's within the boundaries of 100 cpl, mentioned in the very link you posted" Sure. But that's the site at its thinnest. Maximised on a 1920px-width monitor, I get about 220 cpl. I wager that the vast majority of TMC-users doesn't know about cpl + readability, and that it therefore doesn't occur to them to blame that when they're having trouble reading long lines. And readers shouldn't have to adjust their viewport widths for different sites anyway. (Post manually formatted to ~66 cpl, to illustrate. People shouldn't have to do that either, of course =) |
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