The baseline rankings.
Compare how the examples look and how much work they take to change. These are initial editorial assessments, open to revision.
60% visual appeal + 40% modification ease. This table shows the committed baseline. The gallery includes your local reviews.
| Rank | Diagram | Family | Visual | Edit | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Code diff ↗ | Developer surfaces | 96 | 98 | 97 |
| 2 | Terminal transcript ↗ | Developer surfaces | 95 | 98 | 96 |
| 3 | Annotated code ↗ | Developer surfaces | 94 | 98 | 96 |
| 4 | Processing pipeline ↗ | Flows | 94 | 96 | 95 |
| 5 | Horizontal bar chart ↗ | Charts | 93 | 92 | 93 |
| 6 | Service architecture ↗ | Architecture | 92 | 94 | 93 |
| 7 | HTTP exchange ↗ | Developer surfaces | 92 | 95 | 93 |
| 8 | Release timeline ↗ | Time & planning | 91 | 95 | 93 |
| 9 | Structured logs ↗ | Developer surfaces | 90 | 97 | 93 |
| 10 | Layered stack ↗ | Architecture | 90 | 96 | 92 |
| 11 | Test results ↗ | Developer surfaces | 89 | 97 | 92 |
| 12 | File tree ↗ | Developer surfaces | 88 | 99 | 92 |
| 13 | Trace waterfall ↗ | Sequences | 95 | 84 | 91 |
| 14 | Request sequence ↗ | Sequences | 93 | 88 | 91 |
| 15 | Editor with file tree ↗ | Developer surfaces | 91 | 90 | 91 |
| 16 | Relationship matrix ↗ | Data structures | 88 | 94 | 90 |
| 17 | Object tree ↗ | Data structures | 86 | 95 | 90 |
| 18 | Decision flow ↗ | Flows | 91 | 86 | 89 |
| 19 | Line chart ↗ | Charts | 91 | 87 | 89 |
| 20 | Entity relationship ↗ | Data structures | 92 | 83 | 88 |
| 21 | Git branches ↗ | Time & planning | 90 | 85 | 88 |
| 22 | Retry with backoff ↗ | Sequences | 86 | 90 | 88 |
| 23 | Linked list ↗ | Data structures | 84 | 94 | 88 |
| 24 | Async fan-out ↗ | Sequences | 89 | 83 | 87 |
| 25 | Hub and spoke ↗ | Architecture | 87 | 87 | 87 |
| 26 | State machine ↗ | Flows | 89 | 82 | 86 |
| 27 | Gantt chart ↗ | Time & planning | 89 | 82 | 86 |
| 28 | Deployment topology ↗ | Architecture | 88 | 82 | 86 |
| 29 | Heatmap ↗ | Charts | 87 | 84 | 86 |
| 30 | Swimlane process ↗ | Flows | 88 | 78 | 84 |
| 31 | Dependency graph ↗ | Time & planning | 88 | 79 | 84 |
| 32 | Donut chart ↗ | Charts | 83 | 75 | 80 |
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