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by esmooov 4429 days ago
I don't understand why designers refuse to pay attention to typographic guidelines. 95 characters per line is not very readable. To be fair, Wikipedia already suffers from this problem. Between 100-character lines and sans-serif body copy, Wikipedia's current typography is abysmal.

Otherwise this concept is fine. I'd love to see Wikipedia reset in Meta Serif or Tisa at 66-72 characters-per-line.
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dublinben 4429 days ago
Reducing the number of characters per line on Wikipedia is as easy as making your web browser narrower.
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jakub_g 4429 days ago
I hate resizing my web browser (it's always full screen), but I abuse the sidebar [1] precisely for that.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/all-in-one-si...

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cliveowen 4429 days ago
You'd be surprised how many times I have to fire up the Dev Tools on websites just to have a sane line-length.
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jakub_g 4429 days ago
You may want to install Stylish, create an empty stylesheet with sth like

  html * {line-height:170%;}
and enable it when needed - that's what I do from time to time; I also have one with

  html * {color:black !important;}
and one with

  html body, 
  html div,
  html span,
  html p 
   {font-family:Georgia !important;}
With this, tightly packed gray-on-gray websites with unreadable typeface no longer bother me.
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