On 2010/02/06 21:06 (GMT-0500) Brian M. Curran composed: > I'm styling my website, and noticed that at my given text size that the > line lengths are too long, because they hurt my eyes. Is there a rule of > thumb for number of characters per line that will yield the best > readability?
Line lengths should be set in em but how many depends on several factors. There are several good discussions: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/em/ http://webstyleguide.com/wsg2/type/lines.html http://webusability.com/article_line_length_12_2002.htm http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/languages/html/webstyle/wsg3/7-page-design/6-page-width-line-length.html -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
