bencheeorg
Benchee Logo
Original ask from @PragTob: https://bsky.app/profile/pragtob.bsky.social/post/3lo6lbllur22r
edit by @PragTob, full text of original ask:
I finally want to get a logo for benchee - it looks so sad without a logo compared to other popular libraries.
Any great ideas how to go about this?
What I basically would love:
- logo for the top of the README
- icon for the github org I know I could AI generate something, but I'd rather not right now.
As for logo there's probably 2 ways:
The most idiomatic/easy to grasp is a stop watch or something, as measuring time is the most popular use case. With a nice elixir-ish purple. The actual name inspiration though came from the warcraft 3 unit Banshee which also happens to be purple: https://classic.battle.net/war3/undead/units/banshee.shtml
So, having a reference in there would be fun to me but I'm not sure if anyone would get it/like it 😁
My initial attempt: (which could probably use some lower contrast/sharpness)
I can also provide the GIMP .xfc file if anyone is interested!
Thank you so much everyone 💚 Didn't imagine people would show up and do some - I'll sleep on this 👀 😱
Six more design ideas inspired by Peter's hilarious inclusion of an actual park bench.
(Each image was generated with a paid plan on Recraft, which I'm trying out for one month)
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Option 4
Option 5
Option 6
Thank you everyone! I think I actually like the first edition from @Nezteb the best - I like the simplicity of it, how it's close to the banshee and has the stop watch in there.
That said it seems the bench combination seems to be a community favorite 😂
Option 2 has something 👀 🤔
Technically speaking a banshee could set in a bench with a stop watch timing something but I suppose that's too complicated for a logo 😅
I guess I'll throw this into #benchee and see if something comes out. I'm terrible at making decisions.
Thank you all so much though!
If you are hard-pressed deciding, or want to solve other pressing problems with benchee, try a bench(ee) press!
@PragTob Here is a public folder of my two non-AI attempts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SWxy-NeYxm8YOGPapPXf4fbLZ088e60x (it includes the GIMP .xfc files in case anyone wants to play with those, as well as a document with attribution links to the CC icons I used)
There are some pretty good CC icon results for queries like "park bench" and "bench press" too, so if I feel inspired I might try to do a similar thing with Peter/Philipp's ideas!