Tips for Creating a Bento Box Layout

28 February 2025 dev By Tim Eaton

If you haven’t learned about Bento Box Design yet, it’s a newer trend for displaying information in a compact and fun (and delicious) way. It’s based on the design of Japanese lunches, split into divided squares and rectangles for the different ingredients.

Bento Box Example — Example of a Bento Box by kofookoo.de on Unsplash

If you haven’t already, I recommend checking out the bentobox. It’s a gorgeous gallery of Bento Box Designs around the web?

Bento Box Example on the internet — Example of an unused bento box design for the web

I’m working on building one for the first time right now, so I’m learning how to build a responsive, fluid version myself. Here are the list of resources I’ve found useful so far:

Tutorials

8 CSS Snippets for Creating Bento Grid Layouts
Build a bento layout with CSS grid
Somehow, another, different 8 CSS Snippets for Creating Bento Grid Layouts

Generators

Bento Generator
Bento Tailwind (paid)
Make It Grid

I hope this helps! I’m building a demo just for fun, with AI images to make it look alien…