# Aero (エアロ)

> The translucent glass UI of Vista and 7: frosted window frames, live thumbnails and GPU-composited depth making 'through glass' the OS's standard vocabulary.

- IndexStyle No.441 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/aero
- Kind: Style · Family: Microsoft UI · Era: 2006–2012
- Mood: Futurism, Luxury, Technology
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Frosted frames
- Reflections and highlights
- Live thumbnails
- GPU-composited depth

## Best used for

- Comparing primary sources and canonical works
- Extracting principles that transfer to other media

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process

## What to avoid

Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Frosted frames
- [ ] Reflections and highlights
- [ ] Live thumbnails
- [ ] GPU-composited depth
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Luna (ルナ)** — Windows XP's look: blue taskbar, green Start button, rounded windows and a meadow wallpaper repainting the gray office machine as household optimism. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/luna
- **Glassmorphism (グラスモーフィズム)** — Shows depth and hierarchy through translucent layers, floating information lightly. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/glassmorphism

## Further study

- Windows Vista, 2006
- the Aero Glass guidelines
- the return in glassmorphism

## Reference works

- GUIdebook — Graphical User Interface gallery — https://guidebookgallery.org/

## AI interpretation

An AI-generated interpretation image exists for browsing convenience only — it is not a reference work: https://indexstyle.org/ai/aero.jpg

## Source of record

- GUIdebook — Graphical User Interface gallery — https://guidebookgallery.org/

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/aero
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/aero/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

Windows Vista/7の半透明ガラスUI。すりガラスのウィンドウ枠、ライブサムネイル、GPU合成の滑らかさで「ガラス越しの奥行き」をOSの標準語彙にした。

特徴: すりガラスの枠／反射とハイライト／ライブサムネイル／GPU合成の奥行き
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。