Masonry vs. Bento Grid

Masonry packs cards of UNKNOWN heights into columns, like Pinterest — row lines never align, and content flows down each column. A bento grid is DESIGNED: hand-placed tiles of mixed sizes snapping to one grid with aligned edges, like a lunch box. Feeds get masonry; marketing pages and dashboards get bento.

How to tell them apart

• Ragged bottom edges and no horizontal alignment → masonry.
• Tiles align on shared grid lines, with deliberate big and small features → bento.
• Content arrives dynamically (user photos, posts) → masonry.

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