About

A small reference brand for calmer reading on the web.

Column Width focuses on practical readability guidance for people who build content-heavy websites. It is opinionated about defaults, but designed to stay useful in real production constraints.

What the site covers

Focused on what matters for readable layouts

Measure and line length

Practical guidance on column width, line length targets, and how to separate container width from reading measure.

Responsive typography

How to adapt type and layout across screen sizes without losing the reading surface.

Editorial patterns

Pull quotes, captions, sidenotes, reading modes, callouts, and data tables.

Implementation tools

Measure Lab and CSS-ready guidance that stays lightweight.

What Column Width is trying to do