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You can keep the rhythm and still fill the monitor by using multiple columns. Newspapers do it.

• kqr 8y ago
  How do you flow text from one column to the next, using as many columns as there is room for?
  • megous 8y ago
    CSS column.
    • kqr 8y ago
      I'll be damned. I did not expect browser support for that to be as good as it is: https://caniuse.com/#search=column https://caniuse.com/#search=column
  • Eiriksmal 8y ago
    kqr, there are a lot of usability problems that come from stretching columns across the screen. There's a thread talking around some of them here on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19621284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19621284 My thinking is that most programmers love information-dense displays. But designers have shown that empty space is vital to creating a truly usable design. If a website used some minor CSS to add a bit more line-height and slightly-larger font than most browsers ship with, then fills 3840 pixels with wall-to-wall-text, you'll successfully achieve the most information-dense possible site, but utterly sacrifice readability. Again, I don't think it's accidental that books don't use multiple columns of 66 characters in a landscape-style aspect ratio. In true HN fashion, commenters are searching for a local maximum (use more of my big monitor) that defies how ordinary people interact with the written word. :)
    • kqr 8y ago
      Thank you for the kind advice. Don't worry, I won't use it on any sort of content-heavy websites!