Layag is Filipino for “to sail.”
A travel companion for planning trips, keeping the documents in one place, and splitting the costs with the people you are travelling with. The logo says the name out loud: it is a sail.
A sail
The literal meaning of the name, drawn plainly. One sail, billowing, on two cream wave strokes.
An L
The sail's crisp vertical luff and horizontal foot read as an L for Layag. That is why those two edges are kept sharp while the third billows — the curve is the wind.
A vinta band
The two-tone stripe at the sail's foot nods to the vinta, the bright-sailed outrigger of Mindanao and Sulu. A quiet cultural root, not a costume.
Sea-derived, and deliberate.
Not a defaulted grey-and-accent scheme. One bold thing — the gradient — and everything around it kept quiet.
- Deep sea#0B4F6CPrimary ink, and the sail on light grounds
- Shallow teal#16A79EThe gradient's other half
- Sail canvas#FBF7EFThe warm off-white everything sits on
- Afternoon sun#F2A65AThe rising sun, and the upper vinta band
- Vinta coral#E8734AThe lower vinta band. Used sparingly
Built where the kitty is normal.
Layag is built in the Philippines, and it shows in the parts that matter. The common fund exists because that is genuinely how a lot of group trips here are organised — everyone sends the organiser money before the trip and things get paid out of the pot. A pairwise “who owes whom” model alone does not describe that, so Layag models the pot properly.
Settling up hands off to GCash or Maya rather than pretending to be a wallet. Groups are assumed to be mixed — a Thailand trip with Filipino and Japanese travellers raises the question of whose currency a balance is shown in, and that question has a real answer in the product.
Warm to plan in, exact about money.
A trip is emotional but the ledger has to feel trustworthy, so the app splits its personality on purpose: warm and spacious on the planning and overview screens, plain and exact everywhere a number lives. No playful ambiguity anywhere near a figure.
Layag is a web app that installs to your home screen — one surface for the laptop you plan on and the phone you carry, rather than two that drift apart. The parts you need mid-trip are built to work with no signal, because that is the state they are opened in.
Made by Over-Biz.