Drew Ink The year

Bento

Also called Bento grid, Bento box layout

A grid of unequal rounded panels packed tightly into a rectangle, each holding one idea, named after the compartmented Japanese lunchbox.

Bento: eight unequal rounded panels packed tight into one rectangle, each holding a single thing of the foundry's own, all sharing one corner radius whatever their size.
Bento, the foundry's own shelf, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-10.

Near it

GridNeo-brutalismModular grid

Minimalism

What it is made of

cellsdifferent sizes, but all on one grid
gapconsistent and visible
radiusequal on every cell
one idea per cellthe constraint that makes it work and the one that gets dropped first

Where it came from

The term entered interface writing around 2022 and 2023, largely off the back of Apple's product pages and of dashboards built the same way.