On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 15:15:22 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic
wrote:
Yes, there were numerous studies about line length (I don't
have any links to back this with but I'm sure that searching
for "web typography line length" on google would provide some
useful articles). And optimal line length is some 80-90
characters (including the whitespace), I'll try not to cross
that boundary much.
This isn't specific to the web. The typographic rules about line
lengths are probably as old as the printing press itself.
It annoys me that tried-and-true typographic best practices are
constantly and blatantly ignored by web designers.
Relevant:
http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
http://webtypography.net/toc/
