Windows Aero

In the "Personalize" section added to Control Panel of Windows Vista, users can customize the "glass" effects to either be opaque or transparent, and change the color it is tinted.

Use of DWM, and by extension the Windows Aero theme, requires a video card with 128 MB of graphics memory (or at least 64 MB of video RAM and 1 GB of system RAM for on-board graphics) supporting pixel shader 2.0, and with WDDM-compatible drivers.

[8] Larger icons and multiple font sizes and colors are also introduced with Aero's notification windows.

The Segoe UI typeface is the default font for Aero with languages that use Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic character sets.

The guidelines for Vista and its applications suggest messages that present technically accurate advice concisely, objectively, and positively, and assume an intelligent user motivated to solve a particular problem.

Specific advice includes the use of the second person and the active voice (e.g. "Print the photos on your camera") and avoidance of words like "please", "sorry" and "thank you".

[34] The name was coined by Sofi Lee in 2017, as a combination of Aero and the Frutiger typeface,[35] which was popular with corporate materials of the time.