Readability and legibility
Saturday, 17th March 2007 by Liam McGee
Readability/legibility are functions of margin space, leading (line height) and line-length. Traditionally, a line-length of approx 3 alphabets (the actual em-width of this will vary according to the font) seems to be ideal in balancing the number of new-line interruptions (for which longer lines are better) with the ease of returning to the beginning of [...]