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Typography/Body Copy - Line Length #10

Open jinky32 opened 9 years ago

jinky32 commented 9 years ago

Requirement: the width of a block of text (with default settings in common browsers) should not exceed 80 characters.

Why is this required? People with visual impairment and dyslexia find it difficult to keep their place in blocks of text displayed in long lines.

papafed commented 9 years ago

This is a nonsense requirement that we can never adhere to, because how wide is 80 characters? How wide is an M and how wide is a I? Clearly written by someone with absolutely no of typography or CSS. There is no way in CSS to restrict width by characters anyway, only metrics (pixels, percents, etc), so it cannot be achieved.