Almost isn't good enough: Introducing VybBench, our Design Fidelity Benchmark
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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked
VybBench is a new benchmark that measures how faithfully generative image models preserve a user's taste across edits, covering font fidelity (IoU against Google Fonts renderings), color fidelity (per-channel RGB error on requested hex codes), and edit fidelity (share of unintended pixels changed, plus an LLM check that the edit…
Why it ranked
No. 144 of 155 with a score of 0.56. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.93) and substantiated (0.80), lowest on significance (0.50). The judges disagreed most on reader interest (spread 0.45), so the story is marked contested.
- AI judgeJudge 2claude-haiku-5-5
- A new AI benchmark for design fidelity with a reproducible methodology and open data, but mostly a product-launch announcement with limited broad significance and some unvalidated metrics.
- AI judgeJudge 3gpt-5.6-luna
- Introduces a reproducible benchmark for visual-generation fidelity, with concrete metrics, methodology, limitations, and offline rescoring. It is highly relevant to AI, design, and product builders, though broader validation and model results are not shown.
Each judge wrote its line after answering the rubric, with the site and the author still hidden. Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.56total under rubric v2.2Contestedjudges differ by 0.45 on reader interest
- Significance0.50
- Reader interest0.62
- Audience breadth0.52
- Practical relevance0.66
- Substantiated0.80
- Technical depth0.74
- New information0.93
- Counts against: Promotional0.18
- Counts against: Overclaim0.24
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significance | 0.51 | 0.35 | 0.65 | 0.50 | 0.30 | +0.24 | +0.121 |
| Reader interest | 0.50 | 0.45 | 0.90 | 0.62 | 0.45 , above the contested threshold | +0.26 | +0.160 |
| Audience breadth | 0.55 | 0.40 | 0.62 | 0.52 | 0.22 | +0.13 | +0.068 |
| Practical relevance | 0.66 | 0.55 | 0.78 | 0.66 | 0.23 | +0.22 | +0.146 |
| Substantiated | 0.94 | 0.60 | 0.86 | 0.80 | 0.34 | +0.05 | +0.040 |
| Technical depth | 0.84 | 0.60 | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.24 | +0.05 | +0.037 |
| New information | 0.90 | 0.90 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.08 | +0.05 | +0.046 |
| Promotional | 0.12 | 0.30 | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.18 | −0.19 | −0.034 |
| Overclaim | 0.25 | 0.30 | 0.18 | 0.24 | 0.12 | −0.11 | −0.027 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.557 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.557 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
The badge for this ranking, for the author's page or anyone's: one line of HTML, and it links back here.
<a href="https://rubric.hrih.si/editions/2026-10-28/144/"><img src="https://rubric.hrih.si/badge/2026-10-28/144.svg" alt="Ranked #144 on Rubric, 28 Oct 2026" width="252" height="28"></a>Also covered by
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Elsewhere
Elsewhere: HN 2 pts, not on front page
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