This has been coined as a subgenre known as ' Frutiger Eco'. It was also concurrent with the McBling and Surf Crush aesthetics, and overlaps with them in some respects.įrutiger Aero also had a large environmentalist theme and ideals.

Frutiger Aero is similar to the Y2K aesthetic and can be considered its successor, as it shares a similar bright and glossy futuristic look, albeit in a more refined form. By 2007, with the release of Windows Vista (retail version) and the first iPhone (iPhone OS 1.0), this design aesthetic was completely established. It started to become more common in 20, with the release of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Longhorn Build 5048 (the first build where the system's entire UI was Aero), Windows Vista Beta 1, the Xbox 360 (Blades Dashboard), Nintendo DS Lite, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii. The mainstreaming of Frutiger Aero began in Late 2004 with the releases of Windows Media Player 10 (featuring design ideas found in Longhorn), as well as the Seventh Generation of Video Game Consoles like the Nintendo DS (first to kick off this gen, despite the Y2K-esque and Technozen designs) and PlayStation Portable (XrossMediaBar, in development since the PSX in 2003). Over time, the 'Plex' theme was updated, the earliest 'Windows Aero' glass borders (though technically not true Aero) were introduced, the glossier 'Slate' theme replaced the Plex theme, and finally complete Aero effects were introduced in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer via the Desktop Window Manager (though a registry modification was needed to make the OS's entire UI Aero).

Frutiger Aero has its roots in 2003 to 2004 builds of Microsoft's Windows Longhorn (later renamed Windows Vista).

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