Well, according to this, the optimal line width is about 75 characters. It’s behind a paywall for me though. I also found various blogs about typography and web design which agreed with this.
However, according to this, text that extends to the full width or two thirds of the width is read faster than text that is one third of the width. I can’t see more details since this is also behind a paywall.
Getting rid of the grey bars on the left and right (outside of all of the content) would get more horizontal space on wide monitors...
But it would decrease readability for most people.
I think you have a source that can be cited. Can I have it?
Well, according to this, the optimal line width is about 75 characters. It’s behind a paywall for me though. I also found various blogs about typography and web design which agreed with this.
However, according to this, text that extends to the full width or two thirds of the width is read faster than text that is one third of the width. I can’t see more details since this is also behind a paywall.
… But the current style holds neither character count nor percentage of width constant over variations in font size.
How so?