Fewer characters per line and smaller width of content

[sayanee]

Current situation

• too many characters per line which do not make it readable
• the content is too wide
• the text size is too small

Suggested situation

• reduce the content width
• increase the font-size
• ensure it's about ~75 characters per line

Checkout articles on Medium

Reference

• 4 REASONS I USE LARGE TYPE

[notthetup]

Strange. I'm guessing it's based on screen size? I'm seeing this.

~88 chars

[sayanee]

Yeah, that is because the width of the content is currently relative. We can make it absolute and fixed.

.posts .post-teaser {
    padding: 4% 20%;
}

Full-width browser on same monitor

Smaller width browser on same monitor

Same content width regardless of browser width

Where as in Medium.com, the content width is fixed: