[Dalewyn]

Information density as we had it in the 90s and 2000s was far too dense, let's be real. We might have liked it, but most people essentially saw an insurmountable column of text and immediately keeled over, eyes glazed. The response to reduce information density in and of itself is reasonable.

What isn't reasonable is how low information density has gotten. Yes, information was too dense before, but now we have the opposite problem: It's not dense enough. There is a fine balance in density that designers seemingly can't seem to find.

[anthk]

Not too dense if you were used to read newspapers and magazines.

[nofunsir]

Or, ya know, books.

[anthk]

Magazines and newspapers interleaved articles and news; books were just either straight stories or short tale compilations, there were no short tales in the middle of a page or at the bottom/top/edge placed sides.