There’s this thing websites do where they correctly take to heart that a comfortable reading width is a certain fixed length relative to the text size, but then they cram it into a single endless centered column that can’t do anything with the space on either side without adding some extra elements or sticky-outy images. It’s not strictly *bad,* but I don’t think it’s interesting or creative, and it may be frustrating when your screen is much wider than it is tall.

My preference is to follow in the steps of what the field of printing figured out centuries ago: Columns.

It is possible (though frustrating) to do 100% CSS wrapping columns, so that your text fills the full viewport height, and then wraps to a new column, scrolling to the right instead of down. I think this is a much more natural and useful layout, and it can use the space in a more aesthetically pleasing way

@vy hmm I think you could do a flex box with flex-wrap? Would only split on elements of course but that could work

@vy hmm that kinda works
https://cthu.lu/uploads/168629608a815a3a.html

@vy hahah oh no I looked this up https://css-tricks.com/pure-css-horizontal-scrolling/

and that's so cursed

@f0x oh, uh, my proof of concept for that is considerably *less* cursed, though it takes a particular set of incantations that I don’t have handy.