Also, if you're looking to reduce eye–strain then you shouldn't reduce the contrast of the text with the background color.
Also, I hope you do buy a monitor with more than 480p res to understand that the world has moved on and there actually is more content on the monitor than you see rn.
Also irrelevant: https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
> Making an unfounded assertion that long lines cause eye strain doesn't make your css any better. I certainly don't suffer from such a debilitating limitation. Anyone who does can just make their window narrower, or bump up the font size in their browser.
He/She is certainly not providing any critical feedback.
I do apologize for lashing out, and I don't have any excuse to put in for that.
Keep in mind the phrase "the customer is always right". This was written down by a product designer early in the 20th century (whose name I have sadly forgotten). This was the pithy phrase he used to summarize his primary point, which was that a product designer cannot allow himself to be angry at consumers for purchasing his competitor's products. If you think that your competitor's products are ugly or badly designed but consumers are purchasing them any way, you cannot simply write off the consumers as uneducated or lacking in taste. Instead, you have to recognize that you are the one who is wrong. Perhaps your elegant design has hampered the actual usability of the product, or increased the cost of the product beyond what the market can bear. Or perhaps your taste is simply different from the tastes of most people. Regardless of the reason, the consumers are spending real money on things so they're the ones who have the right to decide which design is better.
Now let's look at what your source for short line lengths says:
> It turns out that the subconscious mind is energized when jumping to the next line (as long > as it doesn’t happen too frequently, see above bullet point). At the beginning of every new > line the reader is focused, but this focus gradually wears off over the duration of the line > (“Typographie”, E. Ruder).
This must be the funniest thing I've read all month. The "mind is energized when jumping to the next line"? What tripe. If that's an accurate quote from something this E. Ruder wrote, then I know that E. Ruder is purely a BS artist. If it's a bad summary of what E. Ruder wrote, then the author of this "article" is a hack. It is quite probable that both are true. You're not going to become a great designer by reading this pre-digested pablum. You must perform your own research, or at least read the primary sources from people who have.