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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6313037" data-attributes="member: 13107">That line length study seems very limited.Also, 95 characters is woefully short.  While I was reading the study, I was easily fitting 160+ characters per line.  And that is just on a laptop.Just from a personal POV, I find lines over a certain length to be very hard to read, in part because paragraphs tend to disappear, and because of the long travel distance to the beginning of a line.  Generally, line length makes a huge difference as to my comfort while reading.  Reading the linked article, 50 cpl is too small for my comfort, while 95 cpl was getting to be too long.But other factors matter, e.g., intraline spacing, font, what else is on the screen.It's quite interesting to see how this very limited study (it had only 20 subjects) was referenced as a definitive work (see <a href="http://viget.com/inspire/the-line-length-misconception" target="_blank">http://viget.com/inspire/the-line-length-misconception</a>).  The more I read, the less I'm convinced that there is very much definite research underlying the opinions.  Here is an example which references a style guide of uncertain authority: <a href="http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/em/" target="_blank">http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/em/</a>).This, although with horrid blue bold insets, seems to offer more depth: <a href="https://www.msu.edu/user/webbsuza/atw/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.msu.edu/user/webbsuza/atw/index.html</a>.  Although, the referenced page on this subject no longer exists, leaving me with an uncertain feeling in regards to the depth.Maybe: <a href="http://www.typophile.com/node/78173" target="_blank">http://www.typophile.com/node/78173</a>, but that also references the originally referenced study.Anyways, an interesting aside, but hard to get solid answers and perhaps harder to apply.Thx!TomB</blockquote>

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