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.
