If a text-heavy website does not constrain the width of its content, what do you tend to resize the browser to? Does it depend on text size? Or other factors?
I tend to not resize the browser ever, except when developing/testing sites to make sure they render properly on different screens sizes. I use a 27" monitor and I like reading full-width. As I said in my original comment, I find the act of syncing my eyes with scrolling text to be very distracting, whereas reading a very wide column of text to be very easy. Depending on the website's default font face and size I might use the browser's text zoom feature to enlarge the font, but I still like reading full-width.
Interesting. I would say you’re definitely the minority here, and I would still argue that limiting content width does work better for most.
When you say you sometimes enlarge the font, how many words per line do you aim for or end up with, roughly? You’re describing behaviour that aims to render text more readable, so obviously it isn’t simply a case of “I like text content to be as wide as possible”.
kmoser|4 months ago
froddd|4 months ago
When you say you sometimes enlarge the font, how many words per line do you aim for or end up with, roughly? You’re describing behaviour that aims to render text more readable, so obviously it isn’t simply a case of “I like text content to be as wide as possible”.