Thought I'd share this one with everyone, we received a list of
corrections today from one of our clients, and we found a particularly
humorous snippet. This correction was given in relation to paragraph
line length.
It makes it hard for people to read if they have to keep moving their
eyes
Hi Chris
This is an important point they have raised - they are looking at
peripheral vision. We see a circle of about 6cm on screen in one go -
anything larger we have to move our eyes to take in more. This is why
newspapers tend to be in columns etc etc.
The Zed man has some good writeups
Of course James, I know that for sure, just thought it was a funny way
of putting it.. the paragraph is under 500px wide anyway
I've tried to read without moving my eyes and its pretty hard.. ;)
Chris
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 17:23, James Ellis wrote:
Hi Chris
This is an important point
James,
Here is some info on ideal line length:
The ideal line length for text layout is based on the the physiology of the
human eye... At normal reading distance the arc of the visual field is only
a few inches - about the width of a well-designed column of text, or about
12 words per line.
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Of course James, I know that for sure, just thought
