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Every day a food van comes to our office and honks it's horn.
We have a Danish guy in our office who visits this van every day.
I found a similar sounding horn sound on t'interweb and just played it loud across the office.
Off he went to get his sandwich from a van that wasn't there.
Oh the hiliarity.

I will be going to work on my day off

I filled up a female colleagues small plastic lunch box with the small paper circles from the bottom of a hole punch, hoping that when she got home to wash it they would go everywhere. Someone grassed me up tho. They dont get it these austrians.

^

That's not quite what April fools is about though!

Oh my god!! Maybe not. But I was just trying to have a laugh BR

Thats better

Go to Google and search for helvetica font :)

I'm about to go renew my ST. I think that makes me a yearly fool though.

Looks like the Daily Mail were caught out by the Sun's marshmallow story:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3503279/Police-quiz-boy-aged-13-over-assault-with-marshmallow.html

The Daily Mail ran with it (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=marshmellow&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=SQ0&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbs=nws:1&q=marshmallow+daily+mail&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=b0716fd9ca23fd81) and has now pulled it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/error/notfound.html

I don't understand

if this was anywhere other than america id say it was 100% april fools, but this could just be true
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/31/radioshack-tv-gun-offer

also another good one
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

If you typed it in it changed the fonts to comic sans. Doesn't seem to work now though

Thats just mental :)

We spent most of the morning using No More Nails to glue most of our absent housemate's possesions to his desk, that'll learn him not to lock his room.

The fact it's AFD is merely a bonus.

Our team have been playing an April Fools joke on us fans all season, and it's not at all funny you bastards

It's still working.

I thought it was pretty funny, but then I'm a bit of a geek. And geek's don't like shitty fonts like Comic Sans.

My favourite font is Calibri

This thread is about to go geek-tastic.

Calibri is the new Times New Roman i.e. shit.

Garamond for me

Such nonsense

Calibri is sexy

Yes. But at some one else's expense!

Imagine this. One day in the future, you open your small plastic lunch box and lots of small paper circles from the bottom of a hole punch fall out of it.

Imagine that....

not so bloody funny is it now young man? Think on.

This man speaks sense.

10pt Veranda FTW

Depends what you are using the font for. Helvetica Neue is a classic headline font, will never date, perfect for headlines/titles and comes in a shed load of different weights. Arial will do a job.

Glasgow is fucking sexy, Din is an old favourite. Personally I prefer Minion or Bembo over Garamond.

Picking the right font for the job is only the start though. You still need to adjust your leading and H&J's depending on the size you intend to use the font and your column width, until it reads perfectly and draws your eyes across the page.

I love typography.

Some of these are lush:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/08/80-beautiful-fonts-typefaces-for-professional-design/

http://www.100besteschriften.de/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6djQHeqMwQ

Surely nobody fell for this

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3503234/Gorillas-get-iPads-to-aid-alertness-and-keep-them-happier-in-zoos.htmla

I would piss my pants with laughter, and say "grrr pesky colleagues"

You probably wouldn't get much use out of a Veranda that small.

Verdana on the other hand...