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I personally hate when sites make the text narrow. If I want the text narrow, I shrink the browser. (Which I never actually do BTW.)

So to me the advice makes things worse, not better. 60-80 chars per line???? Even my email is wider than that. Go for at least 200.

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Sure, for some reason standard typographic practice and tons of readability tests that show the need for narrower lines don't apply to you especially.

And? I think it's a lot more people than you realize - at the moment my comment has 7 points, and that's despite getting downmodded a few times.

This stuff with narrow lines may have been tested on poor readers perhaps? I don't know. All I know is I hate narrow lines - and I especially hate them on websites.

I mostly attribute it to self-delusion.

Also, none of those 7 even did a proper A/B/A test on what they claim --while the counter-example is well shown in tons of tests.

This, a thousand times this.

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