The act of spacing out lowercase type is often associated with Frederic W. Goudy’s infamous quote about stealing/shagging sheep, but a definitive source has yet to be documented, and the original quote could have actually been about spacing out blackletter type specifically.
See also: loose letterspacing, loose wordspacing, and condensed face with loose letterspacing.
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