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by mdani 1686 days ago
If you have done any typesetting, say for a book, you'd realize that there is a sweet spot between the font size and the number of characters in a line. This has changed little over the hundreds of years. I think some of that effect is what we're seeing on the screen here in this post. There is a lower limit though, if you set the line too small, you'll be scrolling very often as the other comments have pointed out.

https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability