Welcome to the Frutiger Aero Archive, a website primarily dedicated to archiving wallpapers, music, videos, and other media from the Frutiger Aero aesthetic and the early and mid 2000s. More than that, it also features various entertainment such as flash games, a music player, a forum, a chatroom and more. I hope you will enjoy your time here. If you did, feel free to say hello on the site's Guestbook.
For those that may not be aware of what Frutiger Aero is, I will explain it briefly here:
Sofi Xian of the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute coined the term in 2017. It indicates the corporate tech aesthetic from approximately 2005 to 2013. You might have seen it in Windows Vista, Windows 7, the Wii, the PlayStation 3, or even on advertisements and certain toys such as the iDog.
Notable elements of the style are bright and vibrant colors, glossy textures, glass/transparent materials, aurora borealis, skeuomorphism, bubbles, bokeh, macro photographs of grass, futurism, and humanism.
Frutiger Aero derives its name from the Frutiger fonts designed by Adrian Frutiger, which inspired the Segoe UI fonts, and Aero, the visual design and user experience guidelines of Windows Vista and Windows 7, which stands for "Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open."
There are also subgenres of Frutiger Aero that have been identified by the community, here are some of more popular ones: Frutiger Eco, Helvetica Aqua Aero, Frutiger Aurora, DORFic, Dark Aero, and Technozen. You can take a look at the History section of my site to learn more details about its evolution through time. Scroll down for a few visual examples of the style.
