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If you are really looking for some readability tips, might I suggest one? Via the incredibly influential, albeit dry, _The Elements of Typographic Style_ by Rob
by adregan 13y ago
If you are really looking for some readability tips, might I suggest one? Via the incredibly influential, albeit dry, _The Elements of Typographic Style_ by Robert Bringhurst[1] concerning the "comfortable measure," which I find to be the most important aspect of readable text:
> Anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as a satisfactory
> length of line for a single-column page set in a serifed text face in a text size.
> The 66-character line (counting both letters and spaces) is widely regarded as ideal.
The measure on your site is around 99 characters and that's a bit large. The best way I've found to work on the character length involves a dead simple tip I appropriated from Trent Walton[2]. If you add an asterisk at the 66 character of a line, you can easily manipulate the font-size up and down (I prefer percentages on the body element and ems on the individual elements, and then fuss with the single percentage) until you achieve an appealing measure.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Sty...
[2]http://trentwalton.com/ http://trentwalton.com/
- lelandbatey 13y agoI realize I'm catching this a bit late, but I wanted to thank you for the tips! This is exactly the kind of thing that I was hoping to learn, thank you!