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  "title": "Downtown Bend’s earlier circle device",
  "publisher": "Downtown Bend Business Association",
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  "accessedOn": "2026-09-11",
  "notes": "A DOWNTOWN wordmark beside a BEND disc, seven years before the association’s filed 2018 badge and a different drawing.",
  "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/dbba-2011-circle/",
  "evidence": {
    "id": "dbba-2011-circle",
    "kind": "variant",
    "date": "October 14, 2011",
    "summary": "Downtown Bend used a BEND disc beside a DOWNTOWN wordmark in 2011.",
    "findings": [
      "DOWNTOWN is set in red slab letters beside a dark disc holding BEND in broad shaped letters, the D filling the right of the circle.",
      "It precedes the association’s 2018 commissioned badge by seven years and is a different drawing."
    ],
    "limitations": [
      "The file sits at an upload path reading 2009/11. An upload directory is not a creation date, and the capture is the date used here.",
      "No designer is identified for this earlier device."
    ],
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        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111014im_/http://downtownbend.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/downtown-logo.png",
        "accessedOn": "2026-09-11",
        "role": "Received source bytes"
      }
    ],
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        "page": null,
        "box": null,
        "title": "Downtown Bend’s device, captured in 2011.",
        "rights": "Documentary reproduction of a third-party mark, retrieved from the Internet Archive. No project license or fabrication permission is granted.",
        "color": true,
        "width": 900,
        "render": "Source raster; no drawing reconstruction",
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      }
    ],
    "family": "Downtown Bend Business Association",
    "origin": "Web archive capture; the artwork’s creator and creation date are unverified.",
    "sourceIds": [],
    "review": {
      "status": "image-reviewed",
      "method": "Retrieved image inspected at full size; the source URL was confirmed against the harvester cache.",
      "reviewedOn": "2026-09-11"
    }
  },
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      "id": "dbba-2011-circle",
      "label": "Downtown Bend's earlier circle device, 2011",
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      "role": "specimen",
      "family": {
        "id": "the-downtown-file",
        "name": "The Downtown file",
        "diagnostic": "The same narrow letters and notched E as the bureau roundel, with a capital N."
      },
      "standsAlone": false,
      "construction": "The notched construction",
      "confidence": "medium",
      "readAt": 54.2,
      "readAtBasis": "the letters alone, at this drawing's own letter cut",
      "metrics": [
        {
          "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": 0.977
        },
        {
          "key": "wordAspect",
          "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
        },
        {
          "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": 0.3446
        },
        {
          "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",
          "value": 0.2682
        }
      ],
      "nearest": [
        {
          "id": "deschutes-born-in-bend",
          "label": "Deschutes Brewery, Born in Bend",
          "iou": 0.4063,
          "reading": "different drawings",
          "href": "/archive/deschutes-born-in-bend/"
        },
        {
          "id": "visit-bend-2022",
          "label": "Visit Bend, 2022",
          "iou": 0.404,
          "reading": "different drawings",
          "href": "/archive/visit-bend-2022/"
        },
        {
          "id": "vintage-bend-profile",
          "label": "Vintage Bend profile rendering",
          "iou": 0.3968,
          "reading": "different drawings",
          "href": "/archive/vintage-bend-profile/"
        }
      ],
      "furthest": {
        "id": "city-landscape-2011",
        "label": "The City’s roundel at 135 px",
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        "href": "/archive/city-landscape-2011/"
      },
      "ties": [
        {
          "from": "chamber-2001-emblem",
          "to": "dbba-2011-circle",
          "kind": "hypothesis",
          "label": "The same drawing, one letter changed?",
          "basis": "Every narrow drawing on hand, civic and commercial, carries a notched E and a notched B at the same height. The only difference that is not weight, tilt or colour is the third letter: arched in the civic uses, a capital N in the commercial ones.",
          "test": "Downtown Bend’s own answer to who made its earliest file and from what, and the artwork attached to the 2011 LogoTournament brief, which the public contest page does not carry. Either would show whether the capital N was cut into an existing drawing.",
          "cites": []
        },
        {
          "from": "dbba-2006-bug",
          "to": "dbba-2011-circle",
          "kind": "measured",
          "label": "0.87 at the letters cut",
          "basis": "Read at the smaller of the two drawings’ own letter cuts, where neither mask holds a ring, these two agree at 0.87. At the global cut the same pair scores 0.35, which is a number about two rings. Neither score says which drawing came first.",
          "test": null,
          "cites": []
        }
      ],
      "excludedReason": null,
      "control": 0.975
    }
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    "id": "dbba-2011-circle",
    "title": "Downtown Bend’s earlier circle device",
    "intro": "Seven years before its commissioned badge, Downtown Bend was already using a BEND disc.",
    "body": [
      "The association’s 2018 badge by Chad DeWile is already in this archive. This is what came before it: a red DOWNTOWN wordmark beside a dark disc with BEND in broad shaped letters.",
      "The file’s upload path reads 2009, which is suggestive and is not evidence — the repository has written that rule down before, about someone else’s logo, and it applies here too. The capture date is what we can defend."
    ],
    "related": [
      "dbba-badge-2018"
    ],
    "date": "October 14, 2011",
    "collection": "emblems",
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        "caption": "Downtown Bend’s device, captured in 2011.",
        "alt": "The word DOWNTOWN in red slab letters beside a dark green disc containing BEND in broad gold letters.",
        "credit": "Downtown Bend Business Association · retrieved from the Internet Archive",
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    "publication": "Downtown Bend Business Association",
    "galleryTitle": "Downtown Bend, 2011",
    "galleryDescription": "The device that preceded the 2018 badge."
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