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Surface & texture · Simulated material

Frosted glass

Translucent layers over blurred backdrops.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under surface & texture: what is the material finish?

styles make it: 5
as a defining choice: 2
as a usual one: 0
now and then: 3
avoid it: 4

Styles defined by it 2

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Frutiger Aero2004–2013 · Global / networkedThe glossy, optimistic look of consumer technology from the mid-2000s to the early 2010s, retrospectively named in 2017 by the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute after Windows Vista's Aero interface and Adrian Frutiger's humanist sans.
Glassmorphism2020–present · Global / networkedAn interface style of translucent, frosted panels floating over vivid, blurred backgrounds, so that depth and hierarchy come from layered transparency.

Styles that use it now and then 3

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Other choices in surface & texture