Friday, April 1, 2011

Be passionate - April fool's joke from Google

How many of you got fooled yesterday? I know I sure fell for this one. I even have the instructions downloaded on my computer. Here's Friday's big joke released from Google about an extraordinary new way to control Gmail with your body :


video from http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

Furthermore, google.com is playing another joke between Helvetica and Comic Sans. As we know that Helvetica is a significant typeface that being widely used on almost everything: signage, subway, advertising and so on. On the other hand, Comic Sans looks cheap and it is a font that designers always avoid to use. However, if you googled "Helvetica", the font on the google page will all turned into Comic Sans.

more reading: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/promos/motion.html
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/04/april_fools_day_joke_for_type.html

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