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> Humans are good at reading columns at around roughly 80 characters Do you have some evidence backing this up? Thanks.
by zvmaz 4y ago
> Humans are good at reading columns at around roughly 80 characters
Do you have some evidence backing this up? Thanks.
- eslaught 4y agoThis is the sort of thing you can Google, because it is extremely common advice. A few of the top hits: https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-2/text-typography/length-column-width https://www.fonts.com/content/learning/fontology/level-2/tex... https://pimpmytype.com/line-length-line-height/ https://pimpmytype.com/line-length-line-height/ https://material.io/design/typography/understanding-typography.html#readability https://material.io/design/typography/understanding-typograp... (see under Line Length) I don't have any studies at hand, but I think it's been pretty well established.
- mort96 4y agoI collected a few links here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972710 80 is somewhat arbitrary, I could've said 50 or 70 or even 100, but it's in the ballpark of what studies find. Studies never find 400 characters per line to be optimal.