bencheeorg/benchee

Benchee Logo

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#469 opened on May 2, 2025

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Description

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 😁

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Issue type
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2
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familiarity with logo designability to create vector graphics
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75
Research direction
The issue requests a logo and icon for the Benchee benchmarking library. The maintainer suggests two directions: a stopwatch (idiomatic) or a banshee reference from Warcraft 3, both with an Elixir ish purple theme. The deliverable should include a README logo and a GitHub organization icon. No prior work or design constraints are mentioned, so the contributor can propose concepts. Review the comments for additional feedback.