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[-] bignose@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not just you. For more than a quarter century, we've known that if a paragraph's text lines sprawl across a wide screen, it's more difficult for most people to read. (And the same is true if the lines are too short. There's an optimal range.)

https://jamesmattison.co.uk/method/why-line-length-matters-for-legibility/

For this reason, it's good for a website's style rules to limit how wide (measured in characters) a column of text can get, regardless of how much screen there is to expand into.

[-] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 1 points 2 months ago
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