document: April Fools in Tech Land : Comic Sans and Google Motion - Digits Ah , April Fools Day -- when Google introduces a search tool that reads your mind and video links across the Web force people to watch Rick Astley singing . This year 's crop of tech April Fools jokes is corny as usual , but the tech April Fools master -- Google -- stands above the rest . The Wall Street Journal 's homepage rendered in Comic Sans using the Google Chrome tool . Eek . The search giant Friday morning launched an all-out campaign to promote the font Comic Sans on the Web . For those who do n't know , Comic Sans is the typeface that looks kind of like neat printed handwriting -- and it 's widely ridiculed by graphic designers and Internet denizens . It was the subject of a Wall Street Journal article in 2009 -LRB- Headline : A Font of Ill Will -RRB- , and it makes Web pages basically unreadable . But the Google webmaster team said Friday that it would be rolling out Comic Sans as the default Google font across all Google products on April 4 . They said experiments had shown that users '' `` thoroughly read every piece of content displayed in Comic Sans '' '' and that it is '' `` the most effective way to achieve user happiness . '' '' They also introduced an extension for the Chrome Web browser that turns all text on all Web pages into Comic Sans . -LRB- Try it . It 's horrifying . -RRB- And they provided a special little treat for those of us who search for '' `` Helvetica '' '' -LRB- another font -RRB- on Google . Not to be outdone , the Gmail team said it was introducing something called Gmail Motion -- gesture commands for email users . They even produced a snappy video and a printable guide to sample gestures . -LRB- To reply , you point backward with your thumb . To reply all , use both hands . -RRB- And the company posted a job listing Friday for an '' `` autocompleter , '' '' someone to guess what users are searching for and type in the rest of the word before they can , so it will be added to the list of suggestions given by Google . Other excellent pranks today include an email sent out by the Huffington Post claiming that the website was going to erect a paywall for New York Times employees only and a subtle joke that replaced the normal `` people you may know '' suggestions on LinkedIn with names like `` Albert Einstein . '' If you 're hankering for more April Fools jokes , TechCrunch is keeping a comprehensive list . Alas , the Journal does n't let Digits run posts about fake news -- something about being a '' `` serious '' '' news organization -- so here are the April Fools headlines you 'll never get to see . 10 . This Just In : Birds Check Into Rehab for Anger Management 9 . Apple Makes Friends with Adobe 8 . Mark Zuckerberg Shows Up to New Facebook Offices in Suit 7 . Exclusive : Twitter Removes Character Limit 6 . Sprint , Verizon Chiefs Give Three Cheers for AT&T , T-Mobile Deal 5 . Glut of iPads in Stores Leads to Drastically Reduced Prices 4 . Movie Studio Execs : ` It 's Time to Give It a Rest With 3-D ' 3 . New App , ` TBD , ' Raises $ 56 Billion Before It 's Even Conceived 2 . President Obama Ditches BlackBerry for Windows Phone 7 And the number one April Fool 's Day Digits News Headline ... 1 . Apple : Our Products Are n't '' `` Magical '' '' After All Readers , give us your best tech April Fools Day headline in the comments . -- Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Lauren Goode
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