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Reminded me of the "Rules of Comfortable Measure", from The Elements of Typographic Style, quoted here: http://webtypography.net/2.1.2 http://webtypography.net
by mr_tristan 5y ago
Reminded me of the "Rules of Comfortable Measure", from The Elements of Typographic Style, quoted here:
http://webtypography.net/2.1.2 http://webtypography.net/2.1.2
I always find myself fighting this on practically every website.
But it makes sense to me, that this should be something we think about in, well, most of our editors as well.
I debate about the measure of code, but I do find 100 to be a reasonable fit for most languages. The problem, is that I want code at 100, and then comments at 66. Oh well.
- urxvtcd 5y agoIronic that the lines on the page are well over 200 characters.
- mr_tristan 5y agoYeah, I chuckled that page didn't apply the fixed width that it recommended. If you just apply the width rule, it seems to mess up the right column. It's like a microcosm of how challenging CSS is to get right. The actual book this website is based on comes from print media. That website is just trying to apply those ideas to the web. And, as we see, not quite getting it right