80-85 is what I prefer. I've worked at places where the style guide said 100, but j still kept my lines below that. 100 is too many characters on one line. Sta

80-85 is what I prefer. I've worked at places where the style guide said 100, but j still kept my lines below that. 100 is too many characters on one line. Standard typographic convention is 2-3 alphabets on one line. It doesn't quite apply with a mono space font, but 3 alphabets is 78 characters. When I'm writing hard line wrapped prose, I even prefer to keep it to 72.