Seven directions for the bento mark. Grid is my recommended primary — literal enough to click, geometric enough to live in a CLI, and the nori-green accent cell carries the color story without needing a full logotype. The others are support marks: editorial, terminal-native, playful. Pick one, or use them together as a system.
grid
Grid
PRIMARY
The literal bento box: one rice compartment + four sides. Nori-green fill in the rice cell is the signature.
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iso
Isometric
EXPLORATORY
Stacked isometric box — CAS layers metaphor. Feels more system-y, less food-y.
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stack
Stack
EXPLORATORY
Horizontal cells — content-addressed chunks. Reads great at tiny sizes (favicon, badge).
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hanko
Hanko
EDITORIAL
Circular seal with a lowercase b. Japanese-nod without the cliché. Great for swag, sticker.
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ascii
ASCII [b]
WORDMARK
Terminal-native mark. Lives well inside CLI output, man pages, READMEs.
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node
Node
EXPLORATORY
Network node — multi-cloud story. Central box + four peer clouds. Technical, a little busy.
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pixel
Pixel
PLAYFUL
5×5 pixel b. For 404 pages, Easter eggs, stickers. Not the primary.
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wordmark
Lockups
SYSTEM
bento
bentocloud
bentodocs
bentov0.4.0
Mark + "bento" in Geist 600 with optional mono subtitle. Use subtitles to differentiate product surfaces: cloud, docs, version tags.
— In context
How the mark lives in the wild.
FAVICON · 16×16 · 32×32
readable at 16px
TERMINAL
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▐████▌ bento v0.4.0
▐████▌ a build system that thinks
▀▀▀▀ you're welcome.
Usage: bento <command> [options]