Brand Book · v1 · Marker Holiday · June 2026
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Take a deep breath. We've got lunch covered.

Fresh organic bento lunches for kids · Santa Monica

Who we are

A little lunch brand with a big heart.

Beam Bento makes weekly bento lunches for kids from organic, farmers-market, made-from-scratch ingredients. It exists to take the mental load off lunch for busy parents, and to get even picky eaters excited about real food. The look is "my kid drew this meets high-end organic": loose, joyful, hand-drawn, and unmistakably made with care. Named for Jade's two kids, Koko and Lou.

Palette

Color

A bright marker-box palette on warm cream. Cobalt leads, marigold is the sunshine, coral is energy and calls-to-action, leaf keeps it fresh, ink does the linework and text.

Cream#FBF4E4Backgrounds, paper, space
Cobalt#2D5FAFPrimary brand, wordmark, headings
Marigold#F4B63AThe sun, highlights, joy
Coral#ED6A4CAccents, energy, CTAs
Leaf#5C9A5BFresh, organic, secondary
Ink#20242BText, outlines, the marker line

Accessible pairings: ink on cream for body text; cream/white on cobalt, coral, leaf, or ink for buttons and labels. Avoid marigold for small text (use it as fill, not type).

Typography

Type

Three Google fonts (all free for commercial use). Shantell Sans is the hand that carries the brand; Permanent Marker is the handwritten note; Hanken Grotesk keeps menus and fine print clean and readable.

Display · Shantell Sans
Beam Bento
Headlines, the wordmark, big friendly moments. AaBbCc 0123
Accent · Permanent Marker
you've got this, kiddo!
Lunchbox notes, hand-lettered labels, little asides. Use sparingly.
Body · Hanken Grotesk
H1 / 40Real food, made with love
H2 / 28This week's box
Body / 16Organic ingredients, farmers-market produce, nothing you can't pronounce.
Caption / 12CONTAINS: SESAME · MADE IN A KITCHEN WITH NUTS
Illustration library

The cast & the world

Original marker-and-gouache art (generated and owned, prompted on the look, not copied from any artist). Use the food characters for stickers, menus, and delight; the spots for "how it works"; the hero and pattern for big moments and backgrounds.

Food-character cast
Strawberry
Avocado
Broccoli
Carrot
Orange
Blueberry
Rice ball
Pea pod
Egg
Koko and Lou
Koko & LouThe rice-ball + strawberry duo, our origin-story characters
Beam, waving
Beam, peeking
How-it-works spots
1 · Browse the menu
2 · Order
3 · Pickup
Hero & pattern
hero
Hero illustrationHomepage banner, big moments
hero alt
Hero, single boxAlt hero / section art
Icons & doodles

Hand-drawn marks

Crisp, scalable SVG icons drawn in the same wobbly marker line as the art, in ink with palette fills. Recolor freely for UI.

Organic
Pickup
Cutoff time
Allergen
Made with love
Star
Beam
Check
Squiggle
Arrow
Leaf
Bento
Underlines, dotted leaders, and sparkles for accents.
Motion

Draw-on & wobble

Things sketch themselves in as if a marker is moving across the page, then keep a gentle living wobble, the hand is never fully still. Use it lightly: a logo draw-on at load, a soft wobble on the wordmark, a doodle that completes itself. Always respect reduced-motion.

Beam Bento
Voice & tone

How we talk

Warm, first-person, a little witty, and always reassuring. We're the friend who has lunch handled. Plain words, real food, no jargon, no guilt.

We sound like

Warm and personal ("we", "I"). Reassuring ("take a deep breath"). Playful about food. Honest and clean. Short.

We don't sound like

Clinical or preachy. Guilt-trippy about nutrition. Salesy. Babyish. Over-explainy.

Tagline

"Take a deep breath. We've got lunch covered."

Lines in the wild

"Leeks with temperament." · "Eat your colors." · "You've got this, kiddo."

In the wild

Putting it together

Beam Bento
Friday's box →
you've got this,
kiddo!
Beam Bento
This week's box
Meet Koko & Lou
Tote / wrap
Templates & states

The kit

Ready-to-use template sets built on this brand, open each to screenshot or hand off. Plus the app and illustration states.

Illustration states
Success / celebrate
404 / not found
Empty state