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I hear people say that shorter lines = better, but when I check the primary sources, I find that they have no primary source or that longer lines are arguably better. Is there an actual study on this that studies reading "long" lines that finds that they're obviously worse?pic.twitter.com/zxWSJucVPT
If you actually read the sources from the "well sourced" wikipedia page, you'll find that it's common that the longest line length tested = the highest reading speed. This is consistent with studies not linked from that page. http://www.makinggood.ac.nz/media/1266/ling_2006_fonts.pdf … https://web.archive.org/web/20150619221256/http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.asp …
There's obviously some limit -- a 40 foot long line surely reduces reading speed, but it seems like no one's tried to find the limit? When I talked to designers/typographers, they pull rank and tell me that "experts" know that shorter=better, but they also can't refer to sources
So you’d rather trust nerd-driven studies conducted by a few random academics and institutions than results from trial-and-error tinkering and centuries of experience? If you’re looking for authority on the subject, see work of Jan Tschichold.
This is the same argument people used against bringing data analysis into sports, trading, and (a very long time ago, phrased differently) various kinds of manufacturing, etc. What could nerds possibly know about the real world?
i wrote about this not TOO long agohttps://twitter.com/emilyst/status/1074214370278658048 …
There's a kind of rationale having to do with being unable to saccade effectively with longer distances to cover (once your periphery loses track of where you're saccading to, you tend to have to search a bit).
It comes mostly back to print typesetting and all the lessons learned there. Depending on the layout you go for, it's between 40-70 characters per line. Keep in mind that that also needs proper size, line spacing and letter spacing.
Obviously for screens the rules change slightly. There's at least this study about the effect of font sizes and some other settings: https://pielot.org/pubs/Rello2016-Fontsize.pdf … I vaguely remember Bill Hill, of ClearType fame, discussing relevant bits in the past, see e.g.https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Dan/Bill-Hill-The-Future-of-Reading-on-the-Web-Part-1 …
The discussion part of this paper is pretty good. Paper vs screen and character density vs line size, margins and faster reading up to 100 characters. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060729105544/psychology/images/e/eb/Dyson,_M_C_(2004).pdf …
There are also papers on how experts vs novices read code differently. Also, the lack of readability hampers people’s ability to code not problem solving ability http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.721.5852&rep=rep1&type=pdf …
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