SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: Screen Text Width Readabili
RE: SIGIA-L: Screen Text Width Readability
From: Kathleen Klein (kathleen_at_kleininfodesign.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 18:38:46 EST
Hi Katie:
In print, column widths beyond 22 picas (220 pixels) are harder to read than
narrower columns. Note that online newspapers use columns rather than
full-screen widths. You can't translate that into a hard-and-fast rule, but
it might give you some ammunition.
Source: "Redesigning Print for the Web," Mario Garcia of the Poynter
Institute for Media Studies.
- Kathleen Klein
Klein Info Design
information architecture/project management
kathleen_at_kleininfodesign.com
www.kleininfodesign.com
206-781-2615
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sigia-l_at_asis.org [mailto:owner-sigia-l_at_asis.org]On Behalf Of
Katie Ware
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:30 PM
To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
Subject: SIGIA-L: Screen Text Width Readability
Hi -
I've been trying to find some research on screen text width and readability.
I personally find full screen text to be difficult to read and need to find
some compelling arguments against it. Unfortunately, many of the Web content
writing sites are full screen.
Can anybody help?
thanks,
Katie Ware
P.S. I started the thread "Internal IA" last fall when I was unemployed (how
to bring it internally to a corporation). I've landed in a usability
position with a large company and am having a little bit of success
(hopefully more in the future) in promoting IA.
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