What makes it look like

Frutiger Aero draws from several overlapping trends:

• Aero Glass (Windows Vista/7): Transparency, reflections, soft gradients, rounded corners.

• Glossy design: Buttons and surfaces with shiny, gel-like finishes.

• Stock photography: Clean, bright nature imagery — water droplets, green leaves, clear skies, and "eco-tech" visuals.

• Skeuomorphic UI design: Interfaces with realistic textures or material-like visuals (before the flat design trend).

• Corporate and tech ads: Companies like Microsoft, HP, Sony, Nokia, and Dell often used this visual language to suggest a clean, hopeful, high-tech future.

Basically this style got stronger when OS(Windows,MACos) started to support Desktop Compositing Engine (DCE), they started to be more rendering capable.

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