If you fill that horizontal space, you get a landscape display of the same height that is suited for all purposes. portraits without lots of side-art on them, sometimes because of cost - airport displays not being wider than necessary). And almost all of them leave horizontal space in everyone's visions (sometimes for a purpose, e.g. Portrait displays have specific and specialised uses. That's not true if you flip the portrait/landscapes in those sentences. Get it in landscape format and it will be wide enough to visualise two pieces at the same time at full height. If you want a BIGGER landscape monitor so you can put a full A4 piece of paper on it - do that. Together they focus on the object of interest. Photographs? Mostly landscape and certainly specified in landscape size and cameras are mostly designed for landscape operation (except when making portraits - for which we shockingly use them portrait!) But you unfold them into a landscape A5-ish or large book with multiple columns (because of the difficulty of printing very near the gutter in the middle).Ĭhildren's picture books? Almost all landscape.

And that makes it two pieces of landscape A5.īooks are portrait, I'll give you that. The only thing we use vertically is paper, and that's because we rarely consider the whole page in one go - only caring about one half at a time. Sure, I can make the case for more vertical space. My eyes are aligned horizontally, not vertically.

Windows monitor portrait mode