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  "id": "carstickers-arched-2020",
  "title": "Car Stickers Inc's BEND circle sticker, 2020–2026",
  "publisher": "Carstickers.com (@carstickersinc), Bend, Oregon",
  "sourceClass": "primary",
  "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/CMDiTuqBvGn/",
  "accessedOn": "2026-09-16",
  "notes": "A Bend sticker company has sold one BEND-disc product continuously since at least July 2020: a promotional graphic in 2020, the physical sticker photographed in hand in March 2021, and a water-bottle durability reel in July 2026, all showing the same drawing.",
  "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/carstickers-arched-2020/",
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    "id": "carstickers-arched-2020",
    "kind": "variant",
    "date": "July 25, 2020",
    "summary": "A Bend sticker company's BEND disc, sold continuously from 2020 to 2026 and read here as the Downtown file's construction rather than a family of its own.",
    "findings": [
      "Three posts — July 2020, March 2021 and July 2026 — show the same product, so the design ran at least six years.",
      "The drawing is the Downtown file: narrow letters clear of a ring, notched B, notched E at the same height, capital N running the ordinary way, even last letter.",
      "The ring is heavy where most centennial-button drawings carry a thin one. That is a treatment and separates nothing.",
      "The product page for the same sticker is live on carstickers.com and is not a dated source."
    ],
    "limitations": [
      "The research deliverable calls this an “arched-capitals” family of its own. That reading is not adopted: the matrix separates families by construction, and this drawing's construction is one already on file.",
      "Nothing says who drew the artwork or when. July 2020 is the earliest located post, not the design's date.",
      "Eight of the account's 1,588 posts were looked at here, so the account is sampled rather than exhausted."
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        "accessedOn": "2026-09-16",
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        "title": "The physical sticker, photographed in hand in March 2021.",
        "rights": "Carstickers.com; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. No project license or fabrication permission is granted. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMDiTuqBvGn/",
        "color": true,
        "width": 620,
        "render": "Source raster, cut to the object by the box recorded here; no drawing reconstruction",
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      "method": "The 2021 photograph was cropped to the sticker and enlarged; each character was scored, and the third letter and ring weight were compared directly against bend-store-classic and dbba-2006-bug.",
      "reviewedOn": "2026-09-16"
    },
    "family": "the-downtown-file",
    "origin": "A product of Carstickers.com, Bend; the artwork's author and date are not published."
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      "label": "Carstickers.com BEND sticker",
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        "name": "The Downtown file",
        "diagnostic": "The same narrow letters and notched E as the bureau roundel, with a capital N."
      },
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      "construction": "The notched construction",
      "confidence": "high",
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      "readAtBasis": "an upper bound: this drawing's letters run into its ring, and no cut separates them",
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          "key": "deviceAspect",
          "label": "Device aspect",
          "what": "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.",
          "range": "0.977 – 1.048 across the collection",
          "value": 1
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          "label": "Word aspect",
          "what": "The same ratio for the block of BEND letters alone, once cropped to their own ink.",
          "range": "0.927 – 1.862; the high end is lettering set wide rather than stacked",
          "value": 1.032
        },
        {
          "key": "figureInk",
          "label": "Figure ink",
          "what": "How much of the drawing is ink rather than ground. A heavy ring and fat letters push it up.",
          "range": "0.169 – 0.728, median 0.493",
          "value": 0.4594
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        {
          "key": "coverage",
          "label": "Coverage",
          "what": "How much of the normalised square the letters fill once every drawing is reduced to the same size.",
          "range": "0.198 – 0.576, median 0.456",
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          "label": "Modernisation reference made with ChatGPT, 2026",
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          "reading": "related letterforms, clearly redrawn",
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        },
        {
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          "label": "The City’s roundel alone, 2016",
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          "reading": "different drawings",
          "href": "/archive/city-standalone-2016/"
        },
        {
          "id": "grayson-emblems-2022-black",
          "label": "Grayson Graham collection, black, 2022",
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          "reading": "different drawings",
          "href": "/archive/grayson-emblems-2022/"
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        "label": "BendEmblem.com common master",
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      "holder": "Carstickers.com",
      "object": "Promotional graphic for the company’s BEND circle sticker",
      "format": "Digital graphic",
      "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/CDFTsByByQa/",
      "evidence": "pixel",
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      "date": "2021-03-05",
      "dateBasis": "Instagram post date, UTC",
      "holder": "Carstickers.com",
      "object": "A white circular vinyl sticker held in a hand, outdoors",
      "format": "Photograph of the object",
      "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/p/CMDiTuqBvGn/",
      "evidence": "pixel",
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        "rights": "Carstickers.com; documentary reproduction at documentary size for commentary, with attribution and a link. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMDiTuqBvGn/",
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      "date": "2026-07-02",
      "dateBasis": "Instagram post date, UTC",
      "holder": "Carstickers.com",
      "object": "A circular vinyl sticker on a water bottle, set in snow to test how it holds",
      "format": "Photograph of the object",
      "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaTp9NLJ0Ar/",
      "evidence": "pixel",
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    "id": "carstickers-arched-2020",
    "title": "Six years of one sticker",
    "intro": "A Bend sticker company has been selling the same emblem sticker since 2020, and photographed it three times.",
    "body": [
      "Carstickers.com is a Bend business that prints stickers and decals, and among the 1,588 posts on its Instagram account it has shown a BEND disc three times: a promotional graphic in July 2020, the physical sticker held in a hand against pines and snow in March 2021, and a water bottle in a snowbank in July 2026, testing how well the vinyl holds up. Every one is the same product.",
      "The deliverable that found these called the drawing an “arched-capitals” family of its own, on the strength of the letters' rounded tops and bottoms. Read against the matrix here it is not a new family: narrow letters standing clear of a heavy ring, a notched B, a notched E at the same height, a capital N running the ordinary way and a last letter that runs down at one thickness. That is the Downtown file's construction. What is different is the ring, which is heavy where the Downtown file's is usually thin — and the ring is a treatment, recorded per drawing and never used to separate one family from another.",
      "The sticker is also the cleanest modern rendering of that construction in this archive: printed vinyl, photographed close, in focus."
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