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I really enjoy retro aesthetics , especially the Frutiger Aero style. I'm also really interested in old macOS Aqua 's design language and Y2K aesthetics.

I am looking for the best clients that follow this aesthetical rules for federated socials. I'm mainly interested in Mastodon, but I also would love to see it on PieFed/Lemmy and Friendica (since old facebook style would be fitting).

Does anyone know if such a thing exists for modern OSs? Should I look for clients or for a web app stylizer? Thanks.

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If you're knowledgable about CSS you could use the Stylish extension to customize websites, but given frutiger aero's aesthetic, you'd probably have to add a bunch of images for ui elements, so I wouldn't neccisarily expect it to be easy

Short of customizing stuff yourself, I think thats a really niche styling to be looking for, for already niche platforms. If you wanna check for other people's CSS creations you can go to the userstyles.world site, or the older and I think now defunct userstyles.org, and search for mastodon, or any other sites you wanna check out themes for. There may not be many, customizing your websites with CSS stylesheets isn't exactly a huge hobby, so the most themes are available for sites everyone uses (YouTube, Wikipedia, google, etc.). Any themes there you find could be used with the stylish extension, though it may require some extra work from the older site

As someone else who enjoys the y2k retro aesthetic, I hope you find something you enjoy :)

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

With respect to CSS, there's already several projects that recreate the Win 7 and Vista look.

https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/

https://github.com/Avayy/Windows-Vista-HTML-Clone-WIP

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

!piefed_css@piefed.social has examples of how to make small tweaks by pasting CSS into a field in your profile. Nothing y2k themed but it shows a route someone could take to create one.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Someone posted about a read-only Linux client they made that looked like it came straight out of Windows 7/Vista. It was probably at least a year ago and I’m not finding it so far.