[Looks like Koji accidentally appended this to an unrelated thread. I'm pulling it out, and I've trimmed the text around it to be just Mustafa's email.] On Apr 21, 2014, at 12:50 AM, mus@designtoday.co.uk wrote: > Hello everyone > > I was wondering if their was anything in the CSS spec for dealing with > Characters Per Line. Currently I've made a couple of prototypes using > JavaScript but this can be a huge performance hit on pages with large > amounts of text. As CPL is a huge part of read-ability for text and the > fact we live in a responsive web world maintaining a legible character > line is almost impossible. > > The general rule in typography is the CPL should be between 55-75 > depending on the typeface family and its subsequent fonts. As each font > has a different character width this can make a huge difference. So the > idea would be something along the lines like > > P { > cpl: 75; > } > > The effect would be that the paragraph of text would never go beyond this > amount, dropping to a newline, thus maintaining readability. I thought > about perhaps a max-cpl or min-cpl but wanted to fire you guys an email > first to get a feel if this is something that would be reasonable.Received on Monday, 21 April 2014 17:13:47 UTC
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