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> When have you seen a book or mag with 1/3 margins? Magazines almost always have their text in thin columns, because long lines are difficult to follow. Books
by kalleboo 2y ago
> When have you seen a book or mag with 1/3 margins?
Magazines almost always have their text in thin columns, because long lines are difficult to follow. Books are also typically 1/3th the width of a typical computer screen for the same reason.
- gerdesj 2y agoColumns work if you can see all of the column - screens are wide and short, books/mags are thin and deep. A physical book has a ratio of exactly the opposite of your laptop. Amazon realised this quite quickly and you will note that their readers have a book shape. Look at this web site (HN) which is used by some of the most vociferous nerds ever (including you and me) and tell me I am talking bollocks! Note the styles, layout, colours in use. How far removed from white on black text, 1/3 screen width and teenager bedroom looks are we away from?
- xboxnolifes 2y ago> Look at this web site (HN) which is used by some of the most vociferous nerds ever (including you and me) and tell me I am talking bollocks! Note the styles, layout, colours in use. I use HN in a half window, so the text is roughly the same width as the website here.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoLong lines aren't that difficult to follow. And for those who find it so, they can just resize their browser window. Meanwhile I have to go mess with the dev console on half the sites I visit these days because they insist on having text in a 2-inch wide column. That is a way worse problem.