The best online April Fools' pranks of 2011

4. Google goes Comic Sans

Poor Comic Sans. Times New Roman is the standard font, Baskerville is the elegant font, and Comic Sans is the butt of everyone's jokes. Witness the latest Google Chrome innovation: A plug-in that renders every page in Comic Sans.

"Following some rigorous user testing of 41 different fonts," Google reps wrote today, "investigating how each affected user experience, we discovered one font consistently outperformed all others when it comes to user satisfaction, level of engagement, understanding web content, productivity, click-through rates and conversion rates: Comic Sans."

Click here to get the plug-in.

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