Kodama — Brand System
A quiet place
for your thoughts.
Kodama are the unseen spirits of the forest. We translate that stillness into a digital language — present, private, and calm.
A single seed, held by the forest.
The mark is a kamon — a Japanese family crest reduced to its quietest form. A circle for the grove, a seed at its centre for the thought it protects.
KodamaOne spirit, many forms.
Every product in the Kodama family shares the same crest. Only a small modifier shifts inside the circle — so the family always reads as one.
Kodama Note
Write quietly
A calm canvas for thinking. Paper lines folded into the seed.
Kodama Secret
Share, hidden
An eclipsed circle — present, but never fully revealed.
Kodama Drop
Send softly
A single droplet. A transfer that leaves only a ripple.
Kodama Poll
Ask gently
Three staggered marks — many voices, kept in balance.
Kodama NoteKodama SecretKodama DropKodama PollDrawn with a steady hand.
Icons share one rule: a 1.5px stroke, rounded joins, and no flourish. They are functional, geometric, and never decorative — quiet signposts, not illustrations.
A voice that whispers.
Cormorant Garamond brings an old, intelligent calm to headlines. Satoshi keeps the interface clear and unhurried. JetBrains Mono handles the small, technical details.
Cormorant Garamond
Display · Light 300 / Regular 400
The quiet brown fox rests beneath the cedar.
Satoshi · Body · 300 / 400 / 500
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JetBrains Mono · Detail · 400 / 500
Earth, never electric.
A monochrome foundation of stone and mist, lifted by a single muted moss. No pure black, no pure white — contrast comes from light, not from loud hue. Tap any swatch to copy.
Light — Daylight in the grove
Dark — Dusk beneath the canopy
The space between is the design.
Kodama breathes. Built on an 8-point rhythm, the system favours generous negative space — Ma — so every element feels distant yet connected. Emptiness is intentional.
Base unit. Every gap, padding and radius is a multiple of eight — a steady, predictable cadence the eye can trust.
Kanso
Simplicity
Ma
Negative space
Seijaku
Tranquility
Nature, reduced to a line.
Two registers, one feeling. Hand-tuned line art carries the calm into interfaces, while restrained, desaturated photography grounds the brand in real, quiet places.
Line system
Photographic register
Mist
Stillness
MossEven waiting should feel calm.
Kodama never shouts to fill a void. Empty screens offer stillness and a single gentle invitation; loading is a soft breath, not a spinning demand.
Empty states
Quiet here.
Your first note is waiting to be written.
Nothing yet.
When something arrives, it will rest here gently.
Loading states
Breathing mark