April 1st, 2011
an enginerd sister and a webgeek/designer sister talk April fool’s jokes
Alexis
ha ha ha oh no
oh man
did you see the hulu website or linkedin today?
april fools jokes
4:09 PM
Jenny
no i didn’t
but that reminded me to look at google
4:11 PM
Alexis
did you google ‘helvetica’
or notice their ‘gmail motion’ beta/
?
4:11 PM
Jenny
i noticed the motion one
i wish they would have taken it farther and made people think they actually had it
so they started moving around hahaha
4:12 PM
Alexis
I know!!! ha
google helvetica
4:12 PM
Jenny
i just did
what’s that?
4:12 PM
Alexis
a font
did you notice the font change? ok maybe this is only funny to design nerds
4:13 PM
Jenny
no i did notice it
but why helvetica?
4:13 PM
Alexis
b/c that’s like the standard plain font, what arial is based on
the original beautiful simple font is helvetica
so designers love it
but they hate comic sans!!!!
which is what the page turns into
on linked in they listed all these fictional characters as ‘people you may know’
and hulu was designed like 1996 showing only shows from 1996, LOL
4:16 PM
Jenny
oh i get it
i want to see helvetica now
4:16 PM
Alexis
LOL
what do you mean?
the font?
or the movie?