Decrease line width in the original Minimum theme?

[Tomas Risberg]

I'm working on a site where there will be a lot text. As everybody else I want my site to be as easy as possible to read on all screen sizes. I use WP/Genesis as a CMS, and all I do will be in full width layouts. For the moment I have settled with a two column solution. This work for pages with little text, but when there is more I don't think it will look that good.

I use a slightly modified html5 converted version of the original Minimum theme.

The original Minimum, as well as the Minimum Pro theme, use a line width for full width content text that isn't compatible with rules for readability: Many sources say that the optimal character count per line is between 50-60(75). The full width content of the Minimum Pro on its demo site counts 150 16px characters per line. On my modified Minimum theme the full width text becomes 125 19px characters per line.

Would it be possible to shrink the line width for text in the original Minimum theme, while at the same time maintain the possibility to add images that use the full width content space? Would it even be possible to shorten the line width only for some pages or only parts of the pages, and preserve the possibility to use the full width two column solution for other parts of, or pages?

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[Tomas Risberg]

The problem was solved by janet4now in the css combat forum @ css.tricks.com

This was the solution:

.entry-content p {
max-width: 665px;
margin: 0 auto 30px;
}

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