[jccalhoun]

yep. I hate it. I've seen people say this is a result of studies but I've never been able to find the studies that claim this is better. It seems to have been stated in elements of typographic style and taken as truth http://webtypography.net/2.1.2

[iLoveOncall]

Well you must have not searched very hard if you didn't find studies, because it took me a grand total of 3 minutes: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Optimal-Line-Length-in...

There are many citations that lead to other studies on the same topic.

[jccalhoun]

Thanks.