Frutiger Metro is so underrated. I always loved this aesthetics so much and saw it a lot in the early 2010s on DeviantArt and had few of those wallpapers on my PC at the time. I never knew the name of it because I had MLP, Emo and Scene Wallpapers in that style and just thought it was a Internet Emo/Scene style. now with a name attached to it It has open up a whole world to me on things I never noticed but seen in my everyday life back then. it has even inspired me to make some Frutiger Metro stuff myself today now.

@xX_TIAMW_Xx

8 ай бұрын

took the words right out of my mouth!!!!

@usOk04

7 ай бұрын

Same. Frutiger Areo and Metro are so nostalgic to me. I wish I knew how to make wallpapers for my phone lol or had the option to change my app icons to more 3d dimensional. Best believe when I get my own house one day it's going to be heavily influenced by Frutiger Areo 😂. Basically create the world I wish we were still in.

@Tonysopranoyafinook

7 ай бұрын

I miss scene. Hot topic was the best during scene Era. These days scene isn't the hot topic so naturally HT has changed... But I stll miss it.

@growingup15

7 ай бұрын

@@Tonysopranoyafinook Scene has come back strong. I dove head first back into the Emo/ Scene....uh scene. It's evolved its been more modernized with Modern internet culture, more anime inspired now. I love it. also Yeah Hot Topic has been bringing more and more old school stuff back lately also. I have been shopping at Hot Topic like every weekend to buy a new tee.

@lefishe809

6 ай бұрын

back when deviantart wasnt full of fetish? Yea most stuff that is actual art is from 2010s there

Frutiger metro is a teenager version of frutiger aero imo

@kaxcommentssomethingREAL

6 ай бұрын

Frutiger Aero: Young adult who sees only good things coming forward and appreciates the little things in life Frutiger Metro: Teenager who has no care for what others say and does it's own thing, you got to roll with it

@NicholasFrancoeur-tt7ed

2 ай бұрын

Metro: Flat Lame Depression

Vector Vomit is definitely what Im calling it from now on.

@humanbean7884

4 ай бұрын

Haha yeah it's so nostalgic but at the same time so cheezy and overwhelming 😂 Kinda love it, but yeah.

When I see Frutiger Metro or Frutiger Aero I get overwhelmed by nostalgia. It's not like if I see a liminal space where it's just a distant familiarity, I mean I can't even focus on anything else, I just have this extremely vivid sense of familiarity. If I could go back to any time, it'd 100% be 2000-2017.

@user-vs8nu8id5q

5 ай бұрын

2000-2014 for me

@donttrustthissoupitisevil.

5 ай бұрын

Wow,, this is exactly how i feel

@kitt3h

4 ай бұрын

Omg yes, same

I did not expect Jerma to appear in this video

@L1ttlef0ot

7 ай бұрын

I’m glad to not be the only other person who noticed. Literally the last place I would have expected a wild Jerma to appear

hi, i loved this video. i'm the creator of the frutiger metro article on the aesthetics wiki. i chose the name literally just based on the Reddit post stating he made it up, and i personally felt it fit at the time as it does share a lot of similarities with frutiger aero (the colours, flourishes, humanism, nature, etc). i agree with the points you made about the name, especially the metro part, as ive always thought frutiger metro and the metro design language don't really have much in common. however, i feel the name has come to stay and its honestly quite charming and endearing. there's a ton of frutiger aero subgenres on the wiki now, most of which ive made a lot of contributions to. anyways, i subscribed, i would love to see more content like this from you as not much people talk about frutiger aero in-depth on youtube.

@OhioanOrganDonor

10 ай бұрын

glad to hear you enjoyed it. thank you for all the work you've done. i do archival / source compilation stuff on other parts of the internet and i know how difficult it can be. i do enjoy the name as well (despite the fact that it was literally pulled out of some dude's ass). i think it gives the aesthetic a very broad / subjective reach, and i tried to emphasize that.

this video reminds me so much of something my friend said when i was showing her frutiger aero/metro aesthetics :o "I JUST FIGURED IT OUT" "The difference between Areo and metro is that Aero has a Focus on humanism and nature" "While Metro has a Focus on rebeldy, Urban life and art"

honestly this should be renamed to "Speakers And Paint Splats That's Literally It Maybe Occasionally Stars And Chevrons And Skateboards But There At Least Have To Be Speakers/Speaker Like Symbols Or Paint Splats Somewhere In It And If You Can't Use Speakers Just Use Circles Inside Of Circles"

@coltrv

7 ай бұрын

Agreed

@legitusername-zl7to

6 ай бұрын

more like graffiti teen stuff in the 2000s

@fllowerknight

6 ай бұрын

"And the occasional flat silouhette of some teens jumping"

@clubkiddxx

6 ай бұрын

It’s already called “superflat pop”

i love frutiger metro so much. not only is it visually pleasing but incredibly nostalgic. i love bright colours and loud, obnoxious designs, so the calm, nature-adjacent aesthetic of frutiger aero is still nostalgic and comforting to me as someone who grew up in the 2000s, but frutiger metro is so much more visually exciting and pleasing. ithink it really encapsulates a lot of what i love about old vector art and the early internet as somebody who grew up on youtube, deviantart and whatnot. also as a scene kid, frutiger metro basically describes my entire aesthetic just with a few images lol. it just feels like a reflection of my soul and i hold it very near and dear.

@Fopenplop

7 ай бұрын

bro i lived through this era and it was incredibly ugly to me

@soledesertion

6 ай бұрын

@@Fopenplop ok?? no one asked

@kaxcommentssomethingREAL

6 ай бұрын

​@@Fopenplopcool opinion, i respectfully disagree 👍

@sharkvinny

6 ай бұрын

​@@Fopenplop bro's here jst to hate🔥🔥

@Fopenplop

6 ай бұрын

@sharkvinny it's me lifeblood. Along with pesticides.

ahh this aesthetic was my entire childhood...im still trying to find that one ringtone that I INTENSLY associate with the Frutiger Metro looks

My elementary schools website had links to online child friendly games. I would give anything to have those links again, but one in particular. It’s this game where you choose a certain color, then when you move the cursor different frutiger metro designs using that color would be created. Triangles for orange, leaves and stems for green, ect. This video really reminds me of that website

@creeperlamoureux

7 ай бұрын

Someone might have archived the website on the internet archive?

This aesthetic brings me back to the days when all I ever cared about was playing mobile games on my old android phone, discovering encarta on our pc as a kid. It fills me with innocence, curiosity, hope even. I'm glad that this aesthetic is celebrated along with other design styles with the resurgence of the y2k aesthetic.

so much nostalgia seeing this. This was the style of the early 2010s, every techo music video, deviantart, newgrounds..

Take me back. 10 years ago was absolutely so simple

@indigo_reji

6 ай бұрын

man, i'm with you

3:04 Always loved these wallpapers with Domo, Danbo, and Bugdroid. Have been looking for a name for this kind of look too but I doubt one can find a term to encapsulate it all. My mind just defaults to "late 2000s deviantArt edit" as they're mostly edits of existing photographs set to a bleached colortoning or, in the case of the first two examples, Cinema4D renders which I think could also be linked to a bunch of Minecraft wallpapers made in the same program.

I like how they literally brand the t mobile side kick as "edgy" ahha

Frutiger Metro and Urbling have been my favourite aesthetics since before I knew their names . As a lil kid I really wanted to move into the big city, so i guess thats where my love of the aesthetics came from, lol. Very stylish. Reminds me a lot of the game De Blob. Vibrant & rebellious, holds a strong association with music & art.

Thanks for making this video! It really bordered me how "Frutiger Metro" is portraited on the internet. In the beginning, I thought it was pretty neat, being a mostly flat aesthetic that also have the motifs of Frutiger Aero, like the Windows 8 wallpaper that you showed in the video. But looking at the images that people associate the aesthetic with, it really confused me, since the images seemed to be more urban-focused than nature and humanism. To me, the visuals seemed inconsistent and not representative of what I think of "Frutiger Aero". Hance why I added the other name "Vector Metro", since, in my opinion, it represented the aesthetic better. I'm also responsible for creating the "subcategories" section of the Frutiger Metro page, to better organize this rather broad style. Also, I believe that Vectorbloom is the true predecessor of Frutiger Metro, since its visual motifs are strikingly similar to it, and Microsoft's Metro UI is kind of a simplified swan song for the aesthetic. This video really captures most of my thoughts that I have about the name and characterization of "Frutiger Metro" on the internet. Great video! :D

@BinglesP

5 ай бұрын

I agree! (Also I see your Alphes Style Sanae pfp, that's cool)

I'm glad that you made a video about Furtiger Metro. Also thanks for including my Grungy Metro graphic design too.

So that's what it was called! I loved grungy metro and apparently so do my sisters since they stole my clothes with those designs (not that they fit me anymore). The 2000s are trendy again I guess.

The grunginess/stencil graffiti I think draws similarities to this so-called "UrBling". That was the peak aesthetic when I was in later years elementary school and middle school. Like Piraka from Bionicle, G4 Tech TV in the late 2000s, Ecko Unltd, Jay-Z/Linkin Park Collision Course, etc.. And even Hybrid Theory all the way back in 2000. Never was into this "frutiger metro", because I never considered it edgy or cool. Edit: Hybrid theory had no "bling" aspect, I think. I prob got it mixed up with the 20 anniversary edition in my mind. Sry. But the graphic design definitely feels more overall 2000s as opposed to overall 90s despite being from 2000.

@aladdifrm8266

6 ай бұрын

UrBling is legendary it showed the more Hip Hop/Grunge style of the 2000s while also having games like Saints Row, Ecko’s Getting Up and brands like Southpole, Ecko, and all of those Hip Hop/Grungey brands. Top 2000s Aesthetic for sure sure in terms of its impact to the modern day Street style

Also this is my favorite aesthetic cus this style played a HUGE part in my child hood during the early 2010s

I have some specific memories of the Frutiger Metro aesthetic, I saw it in my city, but in my country it was mostly urbling, but I remember when I visited Berlin as young I saw this aesthetic everywhere, idk why but when I think of Frutiger Metro I think of Berlin. It was not in the grungy areas but like very specifically residential areas but a bit on the lower end. It tried making everything feel nice awesome and like home, but nothing really looked inviting like on the paper filled with frutiger metro.

JERMA????

As a Sonic fan, I see Frutiger Metro and think Sonic Generations. Its graphic design did a great job of blending the old (the bright colors and abstract shapes in Japanese box art of the Genesis games) and the new (motifs common to frutiger metro such as the patterned circles and star shapes), bringing the game's vision forward.

I've been planning on making an art book for sneaker customizers to reference and get ideas for their projects. So I've been trying to find as many art styles as possible. The problem I ran into is names and core elements of each given style. This video has been such a big help and I appreciate you greatly.

I used to find Frutiger very ugly and unappealing to look at when i was a kid, especially since it was seemingly everywhere especially on school essentials/materials. But i guess partly due to nostalgia, it gives me a sense of calm whenever i see the aesthetic now. Perhaps i was too harsh on you Frutiger Metro

this video was really awesome, this is one of my favorite art styles!

i'm watching a video essay about frutiger aero then suddenly, jerma

6:59 that used to me my pc wallpaper lmao. I never actually thought I'd see it on here

i remember having a pink desktop background in this style as well as a note book and fabric binders like this when i was younger. thanks for making this video it brought back some good memories ❤

hell yeah i wanna get geeky about it. thanks man

There is already a name for this aesthetic called “Superflat pop” but people just took frutiger from frutiger aero and put metro in front with it and ran with it

@OhioanOrganDonor

6 ай бұрын

yeah superflat, urbling, and frutiger metro are pretty obviously under the same umbrella. when i think superflat, though, i think more about thick black borders and less about defined, humanoid silhouettes and detailed floral compositions. just my 2 cents.

Great video btw i love this niche categorization of aesthetics

1:55 whoa, that looks good. Never thought flat could be this appealing.

The ps vita theme slaps

i love the term "VectorVomit" i wish that was the common term for it

2:33 wait Jerma?? LMAO

@Jvd1925

5 ай бұрын

I thought I was the only one who caught it

reminds me of playing Just Dance on the wii

Ahh, the Vitas home screen background music!

Gives me so much 2008, 2009, 2010 vibes

Watching in 240p to stay immersed 💕

they were everywhere and still are on my notebooks, now more on music notebooks than other notebooks

So basically an English student book aesthetic in language schools

You earned an instant sub man. Anyone going this in depth about frutiger metro or aero is someone who’s content i want to keep seeing !!! So cool

The xbox 360 menu has a Frutiger Metro aesthetic to it and it's PEAK 2011

I've been preparing a project to really encapsulate Frutiger Aero/Metro into music. I'm hoping I can pull this off.

so underrated man i hope i get to see you become big

Really great video explaining this!

When people talk about "Frutiger Metro", it makes me think of those Character and Scenes wallpapers from Windows 7.

The grunge and rave sub-aesthetic combined make frutiger-emo

There is something about Frutiger Metro that reminds me of emos and that overgrown hairstyle that they have, posing against a wall with one leg folded up and standing on the other. It reminds me of old Instagram and Pizap(now dead). It somehow irks me but at the same time makes me feel nostalgic. Like an unwanted memory that keeps popping up out of nowhere. I don't think the design is inherently bad. I just think it reminds me too much of cringey things.

@wigwagstudios2474

7 ай бұрын

it's very high school musical "first day of school!!!" notebook/folder kinda "so like i have this crush on this cute boyyy omgggg!!!!!11"

@ricenoodles632

7 ай бұрын

Like the Chinese shamate gang lmao

@DennisTheSage

7 ай бұрын

​@@wigwagstudios2474zoey101

@boojersey13

7 ай бұрын

Ummnmn ur issue here is viewing those things as cringe rofl (kidding dw)

@TC64X

7 ай бұрын

@@boojersey13LOOOOL ikr, I was about to say that sounds cool af until they said it was cringe💀 Lmao this is not even close to cringe at all

Frutiger Metro got them cool speaker-diaphragm circle symbols, Frutiger Aero has skeuomorph bubbles. Metro has grunge, Aero has purity. The differences aren't really that hard to understand, in my opinion.

gosh, i remember this being seen on my class members' notebooks back in like 2015 or so, Funky Metro/Grungy Metro especially. such a nostalgic style, i LOVE IT 8:39 AGHH MY HEART, it hurts so much seeing the Xbox menu in here, such a big part of my childhood ),:

Fantsastic video. Loved how you got right into it.

@OhioanOrganDonor

6 ай бұрын

thanks! lmao ironic how im getting this compliment from a dude named “slow_start”

Really well done video

4:24 OMG my middle school yearbook has that same cover didn't know it was universal 😮😂😂😂

shawn white target clothes aesthetic

song at 6:28 is so fitting for this video XD

Love content like this

6:42 I did not see homestar coming LOL

Very high quality shit

This just made me go crazy

Correction: Google now is material design not metro

@OhioanOrganDonor

8 ай бұрын

was struggling to find similar stuff to metro at that point. for the record, Now was released in 2012 but material design was a continuation of Now and released in 2014. ofc google’s stuff isnt part of microsoft’s metro, but i felt as if the card-styling was similar and could be mentioned

@lovelydolltime8006

6 ай бұрын

Actually, I'm pretty sure Google now is stupid flat design.

Oh my God. Finally I have a name for the other Aesthetic type that made up my childhood. I remember little kid me buying those “teen” magazines, because I wanted to be cool and like the other girls haha. But I remember various pages of my old copies Girlfriend magazines where they had Advertisements with all these flat colourful designs. Same thing when it came to websites and posters. All filled with Frutiger Metro!

the late 2000s/early 2010s just hit different

I like your funny words youtube man

im the only person that likes the metro design it feels like, the peak was windows 10 beta which still used the tiles but also had the start button

I love Frutiger metro.

What an obscure aesthetic, because i hated this artstyle in Wallpapers back in the day

Ah yes, the late 2000s generic EDM playlist cover type artwork

This is what San Francisco felt like as a kid

Could’ve been called Frutiger Urban, considering it’s about street art and has some urbling and corporate grunge vibes you’d see from the 2000s

LittleBigPlanet, 3DS, Hannah Montana and Doodle Jump are the embodiment of this aesthetic for me. Weirdly enough, the Wii U reverted back a bit to Frutiger Metro but games like Splatoon and Tokyo Mirage Sessions: ♯FE had a combination between both aesthetics. You could almost pinpoint the time when the shift over to Metro began on Nintendo consoles. Never was too big a fan of Frutiger Metro but I do hold some nostalgia as I grew up with it. 2012 marked a noticeable stylistic change. Overall a bittersweet feeling. A bit corporate and washed.

@braziliantsar

8 күн бұрын

I agree with you. The Wii U already had many minimalistic takes, as it was released already by the end of this design era. It's interesting how it was more vibrant and cheerful than the Wii, and yet had some more simplified icons and logos (but considerably more colorful). I also didn't like frutiger metro that much back in the day; maybe because I moved to an urban center quite early on life, and a good part of me really disliked it lmao; I ended up being a classical wannabe child, trying to reject modern stuff in favor of old aesthetics. Nowdays, I miss it all greatly.

Robotics Notes JAXA music ❤❤❤

@OhioanOrganDonor

7 ай бұрын

the game is the GOAT

i literally had the 'boxman in the rain" desktop in like 2012

wild grinders (or at least the intro) is very much this

GTA IV had some urbling vibe to it

This is the better version of the modern flat design

metro just reminds me of the cozy Xbox 360 wallpapers

finally found it

BRING BACK MAXIMALIST AESTHETICS

PERSONA 4!!!!!!!!!

I miss it

3:03 my wallpaper is in here

Frutiger aero is just a newer version. And more nostalgic

Let me just say, this is the last place I expected to see an image of a certain Twitch streamer. There is no escape.

It's like the aesthetic of language books from my middle school days

great video, i love the language you use and the editing, although i would ask if you could leave text up for a little longer as i can’t read it fast enough 😭(unless it’s a design decision)

@OhioanOrganDonor

7 ай бұрын

definitely was a decision by me to go as fast as possible. some ppl have told me to slow down and i’ll be keeping that in mind in the future.

I think that some of the just dance games exasperate rave metro, at least some of the older ones.

Idk if you heard of them, but I feel like the Deeqs (from dairy queen) fit this aesthetic perfectly.

@OhioanOrganDonor

4 ай бұрын

never heard of it before, but i think it’d fit too!

@PrincessGalaxia9

4 ай бұрын

@OhioanOrganDonor it was kinda like ubfunkeys (they fit too!). Just you on a quest to stop a villain(s). Sadly, the story was never finished and it turned into 3 puzzle flash games, then completely vanished. The theme of the original fits very well with the aesthetic too. kzread.info/dash/bejne/q2eI15RyeaTep6Q.htmlsi=Gu182VyjZB17zSXb

Swagger jagger by Cher Lloyd.

6:40 anyone else remember this as the pink guy song high school blink193

the funky metro has a lot of arrows that just look like DDR arrows

3:34 NO NO NO NO NO NOT SKIBIDI TOILET NO

This was always the most corporate and corny of the design aesthetics. I remember seeing this design aesthetic in the episode of Tim and Eric that parodies MTV variety shows. Always thought it was ugly and it brings back the despair of being a helpless high schooler in the 2008 economic downturn.

I hated this design era when it was about. I was a kid but idk what was wring with me but it made me physically feel sick. Like i never was but it gave me travel sickness. Same with some songs from back then too. There was a R.E.M song that did it, it wasn’t losing my religion but same album. Especially the clown fish with the bubbles, absolutely hated it. Ever toilet in the uk had something like it. The only one i do like is that hand soap where it looked like the fish was swimming in the soap. Idk the name but i loved it. Honey and vanilla scent. My nan had it and maybe its because i loved her so much and loved going around her house. Man i moss her. How the f*ck did i end up tearing up from hating this design period 😂 miss you nan.

6 years from now. The shitty corporate art we have today will another nostalgia bs, but we actually would hate it

yes, now goodday👍🏿

frutiger metro is awsome and nostalgic but i prefer frutiger aero because of the water and the fishes... i really like them