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    This is What Fonts Would Sound Like if They Had Voices

    By Annie Colbert | Mashable – Sat, Aug 11, 2012

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    Fonts may just look like letters on a page, but the type styles definitely have distinctive personalities.

    Jonathan Garcia, the user behind TheMinuteVlog on YouTube, imagines the voices of Times New Roman, Comic Sans and others in the video above. After watching, you may never look at font options the same way again. Can’t be unheard.

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    Reddit Photographer Captures Candid Marriage Proposal

    Joel Bush didn’t know anyone was watching when he got down on one knee to propose to Jennifer Orr. But photographer Patrick Lu happened upon the couple on the capital grounds in Austin, Texas and shared his beautiful picture to Reddit: “Did any of you propose at the capital last night?” The post made it to the top of /r/Austin with 1,400 up votes (the highest of all time in that subreddit), and Redditors offered many suggestions on how to locate the mystery couple. It turns out, Bush himself discovered the post and tweeted his elation that the Internet had shared in the couple’s happy moment.

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