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That is done on purpose. Ideally, one's eye's horizontal angle span will be less than 30 degrees when one is reading something. WPM drops if the eyes or neck ha
by anonytrary 8y ago
That is done on purpose. Ideally, one's eye's horizontal angle span will be less than 30 degrees when one is reading something. WPM drops if the eyes or neck have to do too back-and-forth work.
The brain doesn't require the eyes to hit every single word to extract the full text thanks to peripheral vision, but this optimization is not as effective when the width of the text-line is too large.
I am surprised you didn't mention the FOUC, though. For a while you see raw, minified, un-styled text on this page.