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Line length readability suggests that each line should have 50-60 characters (or 75 max) per line for optimal reading experience.
The left paragraph has ~100 characters per line, whereas, the right one has ~50-60 characters per line. I find the right one to be easier to read.
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Internet users are very much used to one (text) column layouts. Depending on your target group (e.g. web developers) you might want to break with this convention to underline individuality.
For the web, mainly consumed with desktop computers, yes, this layout is never going to work as well as other possibilities. The experience may be better on tablet ...
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Very long lines of text are hard to read, and people tend to make mistakes when finishing one line and wanting to move to the next line. Multi-column formats help deal with this problem, but multi-column layouts are not appropriate for every situation.
Multi-column articles work well when you don't have to scroll to see the bottom of each column. Think of ...
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Maybe Paul Lewis wants his blog look like a newspaper to make it more institutional. If so he should have used drop caps and indented lines, and not a (sub)title to start the article.
Those elements serve the reading, that is why they are still used in nowadays newspaper , they are less about aesthetics and logic than readability.
Also he might think ...
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