Unit deconverter - make your units less useful!
Take a perfectly useful standardised measurement of length, weight, speed or time, and convert to something far less useful (but much more fun).
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Thursday, September 6th, 2018
Sunday, June 25th, 2017
The Equilateral Triangle of a Perfect Paragraph | Better Web Type
This is a fun game (I scored a measly 73/100). The idea is to develop a feeling for the balance between font-size, line-height, and line length …just like the three sides of an equilateral triangle.
Too many of them still set line-height, font size and line width as independent features when in fact they should all be considered together. The equilateral triangle is a perfect representation of how the three features work in harmony.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Web Typography Readability Test | by the User Experience team at Viget Labs
Jackson is gathering data to test on-screen readability. Sign up and join in.
Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
The Effects of Line Length on Reading Online News
Suck it up, ya fixed width losers: your favourite escape clause has just been deflated. "Twenty college-age students read news articles displayed in 35, 55, 75, or 95 characters per line (cpl) from a computer monitor. Results showed that passages formatte