Talk:Line length

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Useful references

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This article by Bob Bailey from 2006 discusses the history of line length research and some results. It includes a useful bibliography of its own.
https://www.usability.gov/get-involved/blog/2006/08/line-length-and-onscreen-reading.html

This article by Peter Orton was cited by Wikimedia as a deciding factor in limiting line length on Wikipedia.
https://cdn.tc-library.org/Edlab/eye-tracking%20article.pdf

At the time I write this comment, these sources have not been included in this article, but they seem potentially useful to me.
--192.31.106.42 (talk) 14:20, 24 September 2020 (UTC)Reply