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Are you sure making things wider actually makes it easier to read? Very long lines have make it hard for your eyes to track the start of the next line when you'
by mediumdeviation 10y ago
Are you sure making things wider actually makes it easier to read? Very long lines have make it hard for your eyes to track the start of the next line when you've reached the end of one. This is backed up by solid research, and is the main reason why books, magazines and a lot of websites have the width that they do.
- ebrewste 10y agoNot all text is about maximum readability at the expense of everything else. If there is a long doc that I need to scan to find out where the useful bit of info is, I want to see more on the screen, even if it goes against some study saying I don't want to. If I'm reading every word of something, maybe the oft referenced studies are valid. In any case, I would certainly prefer that I had the choice to lay it out how I prefer. When making a doc platform like this, it doesn't seem like a ton of work to cater to different opinions, even if they think the customer is wrong.