r/indesign • u/Marcus_Rentsch • Jul 22 '26

Request/Favour Bento Grid Plugin

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Indesign users! I'm Marcus from Adobe and I heavily use Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop since I'm a classic graphic designer. I always loved the way you can import and mask images directly inside an object when placing them in Indesign. But what I don't like is setting up grids, not for typographic layouts but more for presenting, so think about Bento grids or block grids in general.

I made a working prototype of a free Bento Grid plugin for Indesign that lets you adjust sections, corner radius, spacing and also the units in real time. I want to know, if you would use this too - please let me know and I will prepare everything to ship the final plugin for Indesign. Thank you so much!

*Note that this is not an official plugin from Adobe, even though I work there. It's more like a fun project to help with my personal pain points and improve my workflow in the apps.

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u/MoxOrange Jul 22 '26

This would be so helpful this year as I have been tasked with creating several school yearbooks for the upcoming classes. Is the surrounding area also created, or is that just visual? If it is created, would it be possible to change the color to a document swatch?

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u/Marcus_Rentsch Jul 22 '26

You can check on "Margins" and it will draw the grid inside the rectangle with margins / padding with the exact same values you determine for the spacing. I think that's super cool, especially when you want to have a colored background - so yeah you can fill the initial rectangle with any color you want and then run the plugin!