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Body text lines are too long

design/line-length-longwarnvoid designupdated

Why it matters

Beyond ~75-85 characters per line the eye loses its place returning to the next line; reading slows down.

How to fix it

Constrain prose containers to ~60-75ch (max-width: 65ch or a --container-prose token).

Example

css
.prose { max-width: 65ch; }

void design reports 19 rules in this category. Measured design heuristics from computed styles: font families, type scale, line length, palette and accent sprawl, spacing grid, radius sprawl, dark mode and the tells of generated UI.