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01 / Sushi

Meet Sushi, a nigiri with legs.

Sushi stands on the composer in the Sush harness, and around this site too. It breathes, it blinks, it floats along as you scroll, and it hides a few secrets. This page is where you can meet it properly.

Play with SushiWhy a mascot?
02 / Meet Sushi

Salmon, rice, a band of nori, and a lot of heart.

Sushi is drawn on a 16 by 11 grid, one square per pixel, straight in code. It's the same sprite the desktop app uses, so it stays crisp at any size. Rosy cheeks, two square eyes, four little legs. In dark mode it gets sleepy.

16 × 11

Pixels

8

Colors

4

Legs

0

Image files

The palette

  • Rice#fff8ee
  • Rice, shaded#e3d1b8
  • Salmon#f0533f
  • Salmon, shine#ff8f73
  • Nori band#0f5e5c
  • Eyes#2b2b2b
  • Cheeks#f7a39b
  • Legs#3d3d3d
03 / Playground

Go on, poke it.

Put Sushi in a mood, point its eyes, or teach it a trick. Then go looking for the easter eggs hidden around the site. Every one you set off gets ticked off below, in this browser.

Mood
Look
Tricks

Looking only shows while Sushi is idle or walking; lost Sushi looks around on its own. If your device asks for reduced motion, Sushi stands still, but everything else works.

0 / 10 found

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    Small talk

    Click Sushi, here on the stage or the one floating by the page.

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    Backflip

    Click Sushi five times, quickly.

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    Name drop

    Type sushi anywhere that isn't a text field.

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    Nigiri rain

    Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A.

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    Lights out

    Press d, or use the sun and moon in the header. Sushi gets sleepy in the dark.

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    Nap time

    Leave the floating Sushi alone for 20 seconds.

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    The end

    Scroll all the way to the bottom of a page.

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    Peekaboo

    Hover the logo in the top-left corner.

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    Camera shy

    Right-click the co-founders photo on the home page, or long-press it on a phone.

    Find the photo
  • 10Not found

    Lost and found

    Visit a page that doesn't exist.

    Get lost
04 / Why Sushi

The name came first. The nigiri followed.

Say Sush out loud and you're one letter from lunch. Once we heard it, Sushi more or less drew itself.

A

A face for the work

The harness edits files and runs commands in your folders. That's a lot to trust to a blinking cursor, so we gave the composer someone to look at.

B

Made by people

Sush is two people in Chennai. We wanted it to feel made by hand, not by a platform, and nothing says that like a nigiri with legs.

C

Pixels on purpose

A tiny sprite drawn in code weighs nothing, scales without blurring, and is easy to teach new tricks. It's how Sushi ended up all over this site.

Meet Sushi in the harnessMeet the studio