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style question - italics
Feb. 2nd, 2012 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
esskayActive fl editors, a question for you:
It seems like I'm seeing -- or maybe it's just noticing -- more long sections of text in italics on fanlore pages, especially in the "recs and reviews" type sections of fanworks pages, or in other quoted material, such as on writer style, etc.
In "Writing for the Web" stuff, I used to be taught that on-screen (prior to paper-mimicking screens like the current e-readers have), italics are noticeably harder on the eyes to read than in print, and that on webpages limiting the use of italicized text to several words or a line or two at most was important to prevent eye fatigue.( Read more... )
It seems like I'm seeing -- or maybe it's just noticing -- more long sections of text in italics on fanlore pages, especially in the "recs and reviews" type sections of fanworks pages, or in other quoted material, such as on writer style, etc.
In "Writing for the Web" stuff, I used to be taught that on-screen (prior to paper-mimicking screens like the current e-readers have), italics are noticeably harder on the eyes to read than in print, and that on webpages limiting the use of italicized text to several words or a line or two at most was important to prevent eye fatigue.( Read more... )