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On 2024-10-24 10:50:55, Florian Schmaus wrote:
> On 24/10/2024 09.38, Matt Jolly wrote:
> > Is anyone actually using an 80-column display in 2024? Could we look
> > at relaxing this to something more sane / modern like 120? Are there
> > any accessibility concerns, etc.?
> 
> In present days, its not about the width of the used terminal/display.
> 
> As ulm wrote, limiting the text width to something below 80 chars is 
> supposed to help with readability. I find this to be true, especially 
> for monospaced text. (For code, I usually prefer a non-strict 100-120 
> column limit.)

This isn't just a hand-wavy "it's probably true" sort of thing, it's
an established fact in typography and print design. But to answer the
original question, yes, there are still plenty of 4:3 monitors
attached to machines with no framebuffer console and it's nice to have
the letters be big enough to read.