Re:Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing
by mmis1000 on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:24PM
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Even without the line length problem, 8 character is unlikely to fit in a meaningful word. And because you need a space between each column, you actually only have 7. And nobody using random abbreviations now.
Yet, books don't work that way, even though we have the technology. Long lines aren't readable. There's a reason newspapers have columns.
See eg https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length