Re: Length of line

The LVTF referred to news print as in news papers only as an example,
not the reason. If you check the New York Times, LA Times online print
ready editions you find columns about 25-30 characters. News print
demonstrates that significant information can be conveyed in 25
characters.

LVTF chose 25 characters because 18  characters is one standard
deviation from the mean word size in German and Russian. This means
for almost all languages single lines with one split word would occur
less than 1/6 of the time. Actually, in real text the extremely long
words occur with less frequency. So, 25 characters is enough space for
meaningful information.

The second reason is because media queries can be based on em or rem
units.  These change with browser zoom operations. em is not equal to
character count, but tables for font families and sizes are easy to
construct.

Received on Friday, 3 February 2017 18:53:20 UTC