Bend Emblem

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The Bend Store · Contemporary use

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A black-and-white circular Bend sticker with tall narrow letters and a Bend, Oregon Sticker label below.
Retailer’s product photograph. Product image: The Bend Store Examine the original

The Bend Store’s product photograph shows a circular sticker with narrow letters and rounded terminals.

Its upright diagonal N and projecting middle arm on E distinguish it from the broad letters of the common version. The retailer calls it a classic Bend sticker; the listing does not identify the artist or first sale date.

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 570 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
1.022 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
0.984 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
0.474 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
0.375 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.

Least like it: Bend Rubber Stamp & Printing, at 0.172.

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.

Ties touching this drawing, each in the class of evidence it has:

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Seen in use

68 dated sightings, 2017–2026. Each is a record of this object or this drawing somewhere else, and where a picture is hosted it is a documentary crop of the object, credited to whoever holds it.

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