On 28 January 2013 22:17, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
There is an ideal column width for readability, which is well understood in newspaper publishing but less so in books and even less so on the web. I think its around 10 words.
Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and have pages, but screens are usually landscape and (the important bit) stretch indefinitely vertically. A good example of the problem with doing it like a newspaper is https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/ - brilliant article, but on a laptop screen the layout is just really confusing.
- d.