Bend Don’t Break It
Oregon Secretary of State, 2021 public filing · 2021
In the story: 7. They got there, 2011–2021.
A circular Bend design joins a separate slogan in this commercial specimen filed with Oregon in 2021.
The specimen records one business use of the emblem. The filing date does not establish the drawing’s first use or authorship.
Measured
The Downtown file, the notched construction. The same narrow letters and notched E as the bureau roundel, with a capital N.
Read at high confidence from 543 px of letter, which is the letters alone, at this drawing's own letter cut.
Each drawing is reduced to the same thing — the letters BEND, cropped to their own ink, rasterised at a common size — so two of them can be compared by shape alone.
- Device aspect
- 0.990 The roundel’s width divided by its height. 1.000 is a true circle; anything else is an oval, or a photograph taken at an angle. 0.977 – 1.048 across the collection
- Word aspect
- 1.000 The same ratio for the block of BEND letters alone, once cropped to their own ink. 0.927 – 1.862; the high end is lettering set wide rather than stacked
- Figure ink
- 0.455 How much of the drawing is ink rather than ground. A heavy ring and fat letters push it up. 0.169 – 0.728, median 0.493
- Coverage
- 0.454 How much of the normalised square the letters fill once every drawing is reduced to the same size. 0.198 – 0.576, median 0.456
What it most resembles. Two digitisations of a single printing score 0.975, so that is what “the same artwork” looks like as a number.
- BendEmblem.com 1912 adaptation 0.526 — related letterforms, clearly redrawn
- Deschutes Historical Museum, 2012 0.513 — related letterforms, clearly redrawn
- Bend Chamber of Commerce, June 1953 0.506 — related letterforms, clearly redrawn
Least like it: Bulletin business directory, August 1949, at 0.094.
Resemblance is not descent. A high score means two drawings have the same shape. It does not establish which came first, or that either was copied from the other.
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