[Sigia-l] width limits for a body of text

[Oppedisano, Richard M]

You have five (5) inches of space between your eyes?  How bizarre.  But the
rest of the theory makes sense.



-----Original Message-----
From: Joy Ray [mailto:JRay at zentropypartners.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 12:59 PM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] width limits for a body of text


I'm not sure where I heard this, but I once heard that the optimum line
length was about the distance between a person's eyes (around five inches).
This meant a person could read a column of text with the least amount of
head and eye movement.  This does make sense to me - I find content sites
that do this (like Salon) very easy to read.

Has anyone else come across this?  If so I'd love to know where it came
from......

Joy

-----Original Message-----
From: Livia Labate [mailto:labate at mackenzie.com.br] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:59 AM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] width limits for a body of text

: I am constantly asked by my clients to extend the width of a body of text.
: Are there any rules I can use when laying out text?

All the links eveyone has sent are really good sources. I'd also refer to
"The Yale Web Style Guide" ( http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/ ), within
the Page Design chapter. The main consideration for width definition as
Patrick Lynch defines in this book/website (i have the printed version), is
optimal width for printing, which is something you should consider depending
on the purpose of your website.

Livia Labate



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