Frutiger Aero Iceberg Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2025
- I explain how something is frutiger aero on this massive iceberg filled with 90+ entries.
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Music List:
Wii Theme- Nintendo Wii
Dreamscape- 009 Soundsystem
Sweden- C418
Want You Gone (Instrumental)- Portal 2
Good Egg Galaxy- Super Mario Galaxy
Aquarium Park (Act 1)- Sonic Colors
Rainbow Road- Mario Kart Wii
Blissful- de Blob
Gusty Garden Galaxy- Super Mario Galaxy
Mushroom Gorge- Mario Kart Wii
Planet Wisp (Act 1)- Sonic Colors
Staff Roll 1- Mario Kart Wii
This is basically what the world looked like during high school + early 20's for me. Never thought I'd miss this look but i'll take it over flat minimalism any day of the week 🤷♂
Yeah ui and stuff is boring now! I grew up with it so imagine those rose tinted glasses
@@eko9554minimalism can work but it often isn't nice to look at
@@eko9554 tbh I'd have to look. I like Spotify's UI but eh.
@@eko9554 I find it funny that you're talking about being blinded by nostalgia, yet you have a pretty nostalgic pic of Gerard Way when he was younger. Because he sure as shit don't look that good anymore lol.
@@eko9554 You can like it without being passive aggressive and slightly pretentious. Everyone likes what they like.
Frutiger aero needs to make a comeback.
If it’s profitable, sure.
It’s a very nice and polished design style.
it already did, sort of.. not commercially, but people in the aesthetic community are making frutiger aero inspired vaporwave albums and/or vaporwave inspired frutiger aero albums..
It already is!
already has on linux with KDE plamsa. all the way from windows XP to windows 1 to 1 clone themes.
PinkPantheress kinda brought back Frutiger Metro in her latest video, and there's some Frutiger Aero + Metro edits around TH-cam and TikTok.
This style influenced so much of my childhood. The UI of computer I used as a kid, the home screen of my first phone, the look of ipods as well as the ads for it at the time, old toy designs… god just seeing it makes me feel happy and refreshed.
indeed😅
I hope Frutiger Aero will be popular again in the next decade and since then it will never disappear.
I'm glad to see Sonic and Mario on the thumbnail and video. Both franchises (specially main Sonic platform games) were sooo Frutiger Aero in the 2000's that I cannot help but be amazed! (I mean, the friggin Window XP background appears on a cutscene on Sonic 2006)
Another videogame that is iconic as Frugiter Aero is The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. Honestly, I won't be surprised if these games made grow a liking to this aesthetic!!!
somehow i feel like mario galaxy 2 was way more frugiter aero than 1 and the sonic riders games are weird zero gravity and the orginal both feel way more y2k than frugiter aero even tho they came out in the late 2000s rather than the early 2000s like most people say y2k was around for free riders tho defiantly feel frugiter aero
@@TheLetterS_Rebooted Same. Personally, Frutiger Aero and Y2K are mostly set in the 2006 to 2014, because tecnology was more modern than webcore (the Window XP) but not as it is now post 2017. That's why some older videogame models or renders might look more Y2K compared to now, examples: The Sims 2 artstyle, Sonic 2006 and Sonic Free Riders artstyle, Mario Wii Games (especially Mario Kart Wii in my opinion) Project Diva and The Sims 2 (even tho this came out in 2004).
@@Sheik-yo9fjWindows XP coming out in 2001 doesn't actually use Frutiger Aero it actually uses Y2K
I still have the Sims 2 CD roms for PC with some dlcs! Unfortunately, they don't work anymore on my PC, but I'm sure will work on older ones.
@@rainy5517 than you might wanna own the console versions just saying
You forgot to mention that Limewire became victim to SIIIIMPLIFICAAATIOOON 😱😱😱
I know it's mostly known as a one hit wonder group/one guy, but Owl City's Ocean Eyes is THE Frutiger Aero album, every track is so good. I don't know if it was just the first print run of it, but the album didn't have a regular plastic jewel case, it was sheen cardboard with some plastic bits to it, eco modernism style. The initial DVD release of WALL-E had the same type of case, and I know it's just the style of the brand but I like to imagine the smooth cardboard case of the movie's recent Criterion Collection release is a callback to that DVD eco modernist case.
He isn’t a One Hit Wonder, he actually had quite a few big hits. But I agree, Ocean Eyes screams Frutiger Aero.
Oh my gosh, I LOVE Owl City! I always wondered why his music and Frutiger Aero goes so hand in hand.
Ocean Eyes is a serious contender for greatest Electronic album of all time in my opinion. To this day I’m still baffled how it (and most of Owl City’s other albums) only received middling review scores.
@@thesalamanderking3475 I know, the clever, punny lyrics to tracks like Dental Care still surprise me going back to it
Owl City was my favorite band when I was in 7th grade ❤❤
Man that era was simply just beautiful
Frutiger Aero is still prevalent in poorer countries where older designs live longer.
@@lol-ih1tl in my country, frutiger aero died all the way in 2017, so the less advanced the country, the more it lives
@@davidelectrictreadmillguy but that also means that minimalism will last longer after we jump to the next major aesthetic.
@@lol-ih1tl yes unfortunately, i got tired of this minimalism
I always did prefer unique styles like these over boring old simplistic ones. People can say I’m blinded by nostalgia all they want but you gotta realize that not everyone will have the same tastes as you. I also understand why some people like simplistic designs more.
I personally love FA nostalgia aside, because of the nature, and animals (I also love bubbles) It also makes me feel optimistic about my future
@@SidVacant69and It had a goddamn soul not just a boring ass minimalist ones.
I refuse to let go off frutiger aero
I feel like some older PopCap games, especially ones like Bejeweled 2 and Bejeweled Twist, as well as AstroPop, could have definitely made it onto this list
Agreed, though they also give some Y2K vibes too in my opinion, especially AstroPop
Probably because they share the space exploration thing
i didn't know the name of this particular style! It's so nostalgic to me so thanks for this :)
I miss this, we were literally happier back then. Fucking prove me wrong, you can’t
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I recently got into this Fruity stuff and I felt a deep nostalgia, I can't get over this because I miss my childhood so bad... I'm almost 25 and Frutiger Aero reminds me the good old times when I was just an unbothered kid... Thank you a lot man...
i just realized that frutiger aero was what made me happy in life.
I thought you had at least 10k subs judging from the editing. Very impressed.
The defunct cable channel, The Hub, (which I grew up with) had a fruitger aero aesthetic during it's first era from October 2010 to June 2011
you made me remember things forgotten in my mind but brought back to life with some things in this video. One example is the Robots movie, which i somehow recognised, even after all those years
great vid, really surprised it only has 10k views. Frutiger aero is was the peak of human race tbh
4:36 made me subscribe. Im surprised that I'm only your 400th subscriber given how good the video is
Theres NO way you have 500. Thats so little for such a great content creator!!!!
What a video friend! You did an awesome work here, thanks for inviting us to join to that server, IT SOUNDS AMAZING!
YOOOO seeing FUNKEYS of all things in the thumbnail blew my mind, I legitimately thought I was the only one who remembered those things
I had the Speed Racer movie tie-in Funkeys, I played the hell out of it
Great video, but one gripe I had was you spoke a little fast at times. Hugely underrated.
One of the. Best videos I’ve seen I can’t wait for more
Want the top of the iceberg: The first season of Fortnite: Battle Royale unexpectedly contains Frutiger Areo. Some of people compare this style to Lazy Town in some form.
You want the very bottom of the iceberg, look at Genki Rockets: Tetsuya Mitzuguchi’s virtual musical band. Their songs, videos and even their own video game (Child of Eden) contains as much Frutiger Areo as you can taste.
HOLY
Rolling Green Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy is peak Frutiger Aero for me
This is the best video on frutiger aero I've seen very nice
bro thank you so much for putting sonic colors in here, my favorite game by far with an amazing soundtrack that fits perfectly with the vibe of frutiger aero
4:33 best mario game ever not even as a joke straight up the goat of mario
Not only do I miss Frutiger Aero, I also miss Y2K aesthetic, the zeitgeist, music and media in general.
we still have music and media-
This is a hidden gem.
It voice makes it sm easier to watch this TYSM 😭👍
Pikmin 2 and 3 really fit the feel too in the menus, especially the piklopedia i feel. Love the video! : )
The 009 Soundsystem track became so popular on youtube videos because when you could add music through youtube, they were alphabetically the first artist to pop up, thus the default
The graphic designer in me is screaming. It's not the fault of the video as the presentation was very good, but this "style" or "aesthetic" is so vague and encompasses multiple different styles that aside from being commonly used in the early 2000's era seem to have very little if anything in common. I'm not even convinced the people who coined the term know what they named the style after because the font shows up few times in these examples, and it also includes the design language that replaced Aero which would seemingly make it not fit this style at all aside from it being created roughly around the same decade.
I'm not trying to hate on the video and I hope you don't take this the wrong way. The editing is pretty decent and the pacing was good. I hope you continue to make videos and improve at doing so. I just can't say I enjoyed it for the subject matter.
Mark my words.
*THIS WILL EXPLODE.*
Epic video dude :)
Thank you :)
@@voidoceans Yw :)
Mfs will really say that anything they're nostalgic for is frutiger aero.
It went from an actual design aesthetic to just "damn bro you remember that game from the 2000s that shit is so frutiger aero bro" theres nothing tying most these entries together aesthetically. Its just a 2000s nostalgia circle jerk
Can you tell me some of the things that you found to be "2000s nostalgia circle jerk." I'm working on a follow-up.
Mainly the section about the wii. While the main menu aesthetic can generally be agreed to be frutiger aero, many of the games you listed lack any qualities that would really make them frutiger aero imo. Like the visual design of Nintendo games has not changed a lot since the days of Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros, and Mario Bros Wii, I don't really see what makes these wii games truly frutiger aero. Smash Bros in particular even goes for a fairly realistic artstyle compared to Nintendo typical more cartoony artstyle. Wii sports even uses fairly realistic artstyle outside of the menus and the Miis themselves
I'm also not certain why C418 is in the video, frutiger aero is a visual design aesthetic so his music while being nostalgic for late 2000s is not necessarily frutiger aero. I'm not necessarily certain what to call his music genre, vaporwave is the what it is closest to but even that doesn't feel right
Mostly though, it was a fairly well produced video. Just a few entries didn't fit imo. When I said 2000s nostalgia circle jerk it mainly was meant to apply to the discourse people were having in the comments where people just reminisce about their nostalgia and call it frutiger aero even when it has zero relation to the design language used in frutiger aero works
If you're looking for reccomedations for any entries in the next video, you should look into Electroplankton. It was a DSIWare game that I feel fits the aesthetic well
Good luck on the follow up ❤
I'll be honest that little section was just me bragging about my Wii collection.
I think what most people think of "Frutiger Aero music," as is atmospheric which I think C418 does pretty well at.
Eh, I don't know how I feel about that, I just think it was a little rude from my perspective. I think some people need to focus of the design aesthetic rather just reminiscing on the past which I kinda helped fuel. You're all good now tho :) (if you don't mind can you tell me what you didn't think fit in the iceberg)
I've also been fascinated with Elctroplankton so I think that could be a good one to cover.
Thank you ❤
I love that style it's my one of my biggest nostalgia.
8:47 Windows Longhorn was a never released operating system, it got scrapped in 2004 and replaced with Windows Vista.
oh my god the funkeys game. i literally started crying when i saw it in the thumbnail. Let me tell you a story
when i was a little girl my mom used to take me to the thrift store to buy affordable toys. well one day i found this toy that I didn't know anything about with a little tiny code at the bottom (it was a funkey) i brought it home, booted up the old desktop she had, and joined funkey. that game was my shit as a kid from then on. it was my absolute favorite thing. thank you for reminding me
6:22 im glad im not the only one who still uses the wii mini
Living in the Age of Airplanes is a 2015 Documentary Movie how airplanes change the world of transportation, This Movie should in the iceberg or the aesthetics.fandom, The film style used Frutiger Aero, Eco, & Metro, at the same time, makes it a unique movie is such a underrated movie.
Excellent video, dude. It had nice pace, excellent summaries, and the Weezer jumpscares got me good. Overall really nice
Vaporwave for zoomers
true
Pretty much
frutiger aero is 2004-2013.
in 2011 a new aesthetic came out called frutiger metro which quickly killed frutiger aero by 2013.
and then frutiger metro was quickly killed by oversimplification by 2016.
although minecraft came out in 2009, it had nothing to do with frutiger aero (yes that includes the music even though the music is beautifully nostalgic)
windows vista is the first frutiger aero version of windows and it died with windows 7. (windows xp is not frutiger aero)
not everything followed frutiger aero's design during the frutiger aero era. it has a VERY specific look and it isn't just about not being simplistic. even the shading was extremely specific. there had to be a crisp shine to it and it HAD to be otherworldly and futuristic.
Metro and aero are on the same tier, metro never killed aero but oversimplification did kill both. Frutiger aero music has a sort of empty vibe which minecraft kinda does. XP was just on the iceberg so i had to cover it but I get what you're saying.
Metro definitely killed Aero
HE ONLY HAS 70 SUBSCRIBERS!?!?!?!?!? HE DESERVES MILLIONS!
Subscribed at the 'SiMpLIFICaAAtIon' absolutly outstanding lol on that one chief thnx
9:38 well that caught me off gaurd. I forgot how much the base game looks so frutiger aero, but it looks so clean. Cant wait for 2.2
YESSS IM SO HAPPY THIS VIDEO EXISTS THANKKK U :D
I sort of got a feeling of the glossy/skeuomorphism vibe when watching nascar as a kid? Like the logo and the names and positions of the drivers that hover at the top of the screen during a race?
1 Windows XP is actually Y2K
2 Wii U came out in 2012
a modern song i really do recommend is verdent green by nelward, it really does resemble parts of fruitger aero
i just saw one thing... ALL OF MY FAVOURITE CONSOLES, GAMES ETC. IS FRUITIGER AERO!! is it what my life is?
Im shocked cool math games is not on the iceberg
O2 still somewhat uses the bubbles in its branding.
i still have a hard time to accept the frutiger aero as something on the lvls as 80s and 90s memphis design. when i think of the early, mid 00s, i think of dark menacing depressing suburbs and music. nu metal, emo, metalcore.
I can agree that frutiger aero is distinctive in the late 00s in electronic devices and the electronic medium as a graphic artstyle, but it was not visable in the physical world.
i still think its a fad aestethics compared to y2k and memphis design.
nice choice to use de blob ost, i'm surprised that game wasn't here. it fits a lot better than a lot of the other ones lol
This guy is so underrated he should definitely have over 10K subs
I really want Frutiger Aero to come back sooo bad
This kind of nostalgia is how my parents feel about the 70s and 80s. I get it now
I miss using MSN, Skype, ICQ so much :(
In all honesty I wouldn’t be surprised if the rising anger towards technology from older generations is the complete abandonment of humanism and fruitiger aero in UI design. They were able to master the dumb phones and windows XP/7, but since 2012 they have been unable to resonate with or feel welcome in learning the newer technologies.
I can relate entirely, even though I’m 24. There’s no excitement or feeling of refreshment when you look at iOS/MacOS/Windows/Consoles interface compared to 15 years ago. Tech went from being a tool designed to support your endeavours with a lovely interface to this minimalist slab of information that controls your life.
More like you guys let it control your life. : |
More like you guys let it control your life. : |
As soon as I heard the word portal and heard want to you gone I immediately started screaming the lyrics
You seem to confuse skeumorphic design with frutiger aero a small amount at the beginning. Being realistic, detailed or including gradients doesnt necessarily mean frutiger aero. The images of company logos for example didnt feauture a single frutiger aero design really.
Windows XP has gradients and plenty of detail, but isnt really frutiger aero. Frutiger aero has a focus on natural patterns, glossiness / reflections, and the futuristic style of the mid 2000s - early 2010s, in a sense being a type of retro futurism. I think the crystal project / crystal remix icon set are probably the most typical frutiger aero designs ive seen.
Dells “aero” background that comes with many dell computers / laptops as the default wallpaper is also definitely frutiger aero with its glossy textures, but a bit abstract like vistas default. This wallpaper was originally made for windows 7, but at least still comes as the default on their inspiron line of laptops, which i found slightly nostalgic and actually looks really good with windows 11 and 10.
yeah i realize that now
the little smiley face gag at 2:27 ws so funny is subscribed to the channel
I'm so glad someone else remembers sushi pack. I really hope this aesthetic gets more and more popular. Genuinely gives me hope.
I loved Sushi Pack, I legit always acted like I was the only one who remembered that until now.
Tier 1:
0:36 009 Sound System
0:56 2005-2013 TH-cam
1:10 C418
1:32 Glossy Appearance
1:45 iDog
2:12 iOS 1-6
2:48 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
3:06 Nintendo DS
3:25 NOW That's What I Call Music
3:32 Portal
3:51 PS3/PSP XMB Menu
4:06 ROBLOX
4:20 Skeuomorphism
4:35 Super Mario Galaxy
5:12 Sonic Colors
5:29 The Office
5:49 WALL-E
6:01 Wii
6:24 Wii U
6:44 Windows 7
6:58 Windows 7 Wallpaper
7:09 Windows Aero Glass
7:14 Windows Vista Wallpaper
7:26 Windows XP
7:38 XBOX 360 Blades
7:50 Eco Modernism
8:05 Frutiger Eco
8:18 Frutiger Metro
8:34 2000s Disney Design Aesthetic
Tier 2:
8:44 ABC 2007-2013 Logo
8:47 Aero in Windows Longhorn
8:55 CN Noods Era
9:07 Deviant Art Emoticons
9:27 Free BSD
9:38 Geometry Dash
9:47 Lazy Town
9:58 Mirror's Edge
10:08 Nickelodeon Movie Intro 2004-2006
10:20 2003 Pepsi Logo
10:24 Purble Place
10:34 SORRY
10:50 Antlantis Squarepantis
11:02 Windows Dreamscene
11:10 Windows Media Center
11:18 Wow Wow Wubzy!
11:30 PG WWE Era
11:40 Ocean Eyes Album
11:54 Funky Seasons
12:10 Android Versions
Tier 3:
12:29 Ariel Pods
12:39 Bubble Guppies
12:47 flOw
12:58 Mac OS X Snow Leopard Wallpaper
13:18 Robots (2005)
13:30 Samsung Touchwiz
13:45 Skylanders
14:07 Sony Ericsson
14:15 Spore
14:26 Hexbugs
14:37 Solarpunk
Tier 4:
14:48 .detuned
15:03 Acer Wallpapers
15:19 Discord Frutiger Aero Theme
15:36 O2 Store
15:47 Limewire Logo
15:52 OneTrueMedia Logo
15:55 THX Musical Wisps
16:05 UB Funkeys
16:23 THX Amazing Life
Tier 5:
16:36 iTools
16:59 MobileMe
17:17 Pinocchio 3000
17:31 Unused Internet Explorer Logo
17:40 Tetley Tea
Tier 6:
17:52 .mac
17:57 Fruit Shoot
18:04 Welcome To Kitty City
18:17 Sushi Pack
Good job on this video! you deserve way more subs!
Do you guys remember when people used to put effort on making things, logos or icons?? :00 (take me back to the 2000's)
Honestly: I think that our current minimalism is gonna be remembered fondly when it's gone, and honestly, i prefer it
I hope the sekumorphisum/areo society once had in the 2000's and early 2010's returns one day! :D!
should've called it "things from the 2000s iceberg"
The best aesthetic and my childhood it was a great time fr
White/light cool color dominant color schemes and glossy design just looks good. Reminds me of some of the sets from Drake and Josh or iCarly
Good one iceberg, like it
Actually authors of iceberg doesn't count Android, because it's other astethic - Holo (other words, dark frutiger aero)
half of this stuff isn't even frutiger aero and is just 00's nostalgic stuff lol.
the office features more than just "a couple people", and they never used longhorn. longhorn was never a public windows release. also, the dunder mifflin website is definitely not frutiger aero, just really early Y2K-ish.
windows XP definitely doesn't use frutiger aero very heavily in its design, again being more Y2Kish. although some icons and Bliss are a bit more in line with what's seen in frutiger aero design.
idk how cyriak's work was counted as frutiger aero here. it has no features of the aesthetic. his work is almost always surrealist and abstract.
i also dont get why there has to be loud memes every few minutes, and idk why the guy didn't finish the script instead of trying to be meta and quirky with the "i was too tired to finish the script lol".
ok fine i won't be quirky anymore :( on a serious note thanks for giving me some info, also i've seen you've replied to another comment and you seem to know your shit, you mind helping us?
@@voidoceans hi. sorry if i was being rude. i didn't realise you were so new and it's easy to forget people are people on the internet. what would you like help with? i've followed you on twitter if you're ok to DM.
Eurovision 2005 had a very frutiger aero Intro. Also the intro before a country would begin their song was also very frutiger aero
YESSS UB FUNKEYS MADE THE THUMBNAIL
theres bugs crawling in my skin
Wall-e was pretty fruitger aero, especially the ending. What stood out to me most was the contrast between Wall-E who looks kinda like a cute Caterpiller or some other classic construction equipment vs. Eve who looks like an iPhone or Macbook style robot (kinda like those iDogs or whatever they were called). Also Wall-E is obsessed with the film Sound of Music. This kinda represents a marriage of the 20th and 21st centuries which fits with the general theme of optimistic futurism of Fruitger Aero.
15:18
We had ACeRS at my elementary and I remember pulling off the letters during standardized testing
12:00 weezer combo
the game "Flower" on PS3 has heavy fruitger aero/metro vibes. the PS3 in general and many of the games on it (Playstation Home, Little Big Planet) were very fruitger aero/metro.
Blud was just flying through the video tryna get it out
The future we were promised but never got. I get so angry at literally EVERYTHING these days since everything doenst have personality or pop. Its one of the main reasons why i believe that nintendo truly died with the 3ds along with the whole aesthetic of frutiger areo. Everything is too corporate and flavorless. If i could go back in time and make this the future of the planet, i would rip the universe apart to do so because theres less and lees hope for the future being interesting and ACTUALLY progrossive.
I just wanna go home to windows 7 man i hate it here so frickin much
This list reminds me so much of WildTangent games i used to play, Blasterball 3 seems like textbook Frutiger Aero to me
Ocean Eyes by Owl City is to Frutiger Aero what Floral Shoppe is to Vaporwave
Also fireflies by owl city sounds like frutiger aero...
Can’t believe Flower didn’t make the list.
OMG UB FUNKEYS!! I HAD TO CLICK THIS VIDEO
Is this the neo Vaporwave?
i am manifesting my room to look like a 2002 frutiger aero teens room
1:00 id argue the old youtube homepage was way more simple to be honest
The Lipton ice tea powder container also uses Frutiger Aero!
I have found a diamond.
thank you mr or ms frutiger aero, such an honor
@@voidoceans ⫱⫶⫱
They shoulda put DeBlob
Excellent video man :)
I can’t believe Ocean Eyes (Owl City) is a part of Frutiger Aero