I routinely use fullscreen to browse the web (without custom CSS), but line
lengths > 100 characters are unreadable for me, so a width limitation on
text would make sense for me.

  - Vin


On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:37 AM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:

> On 2022-03-05 19:47:11 +1100, David Wales wrote:
> > I'm not an expert in CSS, typography or even Zsh! However, I believe
> > that limiting the text width to a certain maximum number of
> > characters is best for readability. In fact, another page of the
> > same typography website suggests that the maximum text width should
> > be between 45-90 characters.[1]
>
> That's up to the reader to decide the best text width he prefers,
> e.g. by choosing a better width for the browser window or with
> user-side CSS. Having more text on the screen also has an advantage
> to avoid scrolling too often.
>
> > I also included `overflow: auto` for the pre tag to ensure that any
> > code blocks longer than the max-width would get scroll bars.
>
> Artificially setting a maximum width so that code blocks get scrollbars
> makes code more difficult to read.
>
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