{ "id": "dbba-common-graphic", "title": "The heavy-lettered emblem on Downtown Bend’s history page", "publisher": "Downtown Bend Business Association", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://www.downtownbend.org/history-downtown-bend", "accessedOn": "2026-09-10", "notes": "The association’s history page shows a blue-and-gold emblem related in appearance to the common family.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/dbba-common-graphic/", "evidence": { "id": "dbba-common-graphic", "kind": "variant", "date": "Observed September 10, 2026", "summary": "The association’s history page shows a blue-and-gold emblem related in appearance to the common family.", "findings": [ "The broad B, E, N and D fill the disk, with a thin surround. The public file provides an independent comparison specimen, but does not establish authorship of the supplied common master — and measurement puts it far from that master (0.372, sixteenth of twenty) while making it a near-twin of the gold file saved in March 2022 (0.959)." ], "limitations": [ "The association’s historical narrative is retrospective; it cannot by itself settle the club’s founding date or the original emblem designer." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/logo-reference/2026-09-10-public-leads/dbba-emblem.png", "sha256": "86a10f2bec718315e454a67937bebdd2556d4633feb1033f2721df463bc19c7e", "url": "https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660c2b57f205cc6bae552d9b/9bedaaa8-3606-4734-a0c7-d13a2f6b2113/Screenshot%2B2024-05-06%2B172848.png", "accessedOn": "2026-09-10", "role": "received source bytes" } ], "images": [ { "from": "archive/logo-reference/2026-09-10-public-leads/dbba-emblem.png", "original": "archive/logo-reference/2026-09-10-public-leads/dbba-emblem.png", "page": null, "box": null, "title": "Image as published by DBBA", "rights": "Third-party documentary evidence. No project license or fabrication permission is granted.", "color": true, "width": 900, "render": "Source raster; no drawing reconstruction", "sha256": "86a10f2bec718315e454a67937bebdd2556d4633feb1033f2721df463bc19c7e" } ], "family": "Common-related web graphic", "origin": "Publisher documented; designer and date of drawing unknown.", "sourceIds": [], "review": { "status": "image-reviewed", "method": "Source page image inspected and findings limited to the material identified below.", "reviewedOn": "2026-09-10" } }, "measurement": [ { "id": "dbba-common-graphic", "label": "Downtown Bend gold roundel", "recordId": "dbba-common-graphic", "role": "specimen", "family": { "id": "the-museum-rounding", "name": "The museum rounding", "diagnostic": "The same rounded construction as 1917, with the last letter run straight down at one thickness instead of tapering." }, "standsAlone": false, "construction": "The rounded construction", "confidence": "high", "readAt": 313.6, "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": 1 }, { "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": 1.015 }, { "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": 0.4625 }, { "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": 0.4563 } ], "nearest": [ { "id": "dhs-2012-emblem", "label": "Deschutes Historical Museum, 2012", "iou": 0.9616, "reading": "very close; the same drawing, or one traced from it", "href": "/archive/dhs-2012-emblem/" }, { "id": "grayson-emblems-2022-gold", "label": "Grayson Graham collection, gold, 2022", "iou": 0.9585, "reading": "very close; the same drawing, or one traced from it", "href": "/archive/grayson-emblems-2022/" }, { "id": "dbba-badge-2018", "label": "Downtown Bend Business Association badge, 2018", "iou": 0.8155, "reading": "a family resemblance, not the same cut", "href": "/archive/dbba-badge-2018/" } ], "furthest": { "id": "bb-1949-08-24-12", "label": "Bulletin business directory, August 1949", "iou": 0.1661, "href": "/archive/bb-1949-08-24-12/" }, "ties": [ { "from": "dhs-2012-emblem", "to": "dbba-common-graphic", "kind": "measured", "label": "One artwork, two files", "basis": "The museum’s February 2012 file and the roundel on Downtown Bend’s history page score 0.962 against each other and hold that score at every device cut. Which file came first is not measurable.", "test": null, "cites": [] } ], "excludedReason": null, "control": 0.975 } ], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "dbba-common-graphic", "title": "Blue and gold on Downtown Bend’s history page", "intro": "Broad letters fill the circle in the emblem displayed by the Downtown Bend Business Association.", "body": [ "This record was filed as a comparison for the project’s common version, and its id still says so, but measurement does not bear that out: against the common master it scores 0.372, ranking it sixteenth of twenty. It is closer to the 1912 and 1916 newspaper impressions (0.67) than to the drawing this site hands out. What it is close to is the gold file saved in 2022, at 0.959 — near-identity. The page does not identify the graphic’s designer or establish where the project’s received drawing came from.", "The colours are worth a sentence. The Emblem Club’s own colours were blue and gold: its booth at Seattle’s Potlatch in July 1912 was “decorated throughout with blue and gold, the colors of the Emblem Club”, and the emblem filled the back of it as an electric transparency in the same two. This drawing is in blue and gold too. Nothing in this archive joins them — no chain of files, no brief, no statement by anybody who drew it — and the resemblance is recorded here as a resemblance." ], "related": [ "dbba-badge-2018" ], "date": "Contemporary use", "collection": "emblems", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "from": "archive/logo-reference/2026-09-10-public-leads/dbba-emblem.png", "original": "archive/logo-reference/2026-09-10-public-leads/dbba-emblem.png", "page": null, "sha256": "86a10f2bec718315e454a67937bebdd2556d4633feb1033f2721df463bc19c7e", "box": null, "width": 1000, "caption": "Image as published by DBBA.", "alt": "Broad gold BEND letters within a dark blue circle.", "credit": "Downtown Bend Business Association", "sourceUrl": "https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660c2b57f205cc6bae552d9b/9bedaaa8-3606-4734-a0c7-d13a2f6b2113/Screenshot%2B2024-05-06%2B172848.png", "color": true } ], "publication": "Downtown Bend Business Association", "galleryTitle": "Broad letters in blue and gold", "galleryDescription": "Downtown Bend’s history page displays a broad-lettered roundel. Measured, it is a near-twin of a 2022 file and not close to the project’s common version." }, "displayAssets": [ { "path": "/archive/dbba-common-graphic/plate-1.webp", "source": "archive/logo-reference/2026-09-10-public-leads/dbba-emblem.png", "sourceBox": null, "height": 370, "bytes": 6468, "width": 370, "quality": 82, "title": "Image as published by DBBA.", "rights": "Downtown Bend Business Association", "derivation": "Cut from archive/logo-reference/2026-09-10-public-leads/dbba-emblem.png; display source archive/logo-reference/2026-09-10-public-leads/dbba-emblem.png: the full 370×370 px page. Converted to color WebP at 370 px wide, quality 82. Context thumbnail; open the source record for full-resolution reading." } ], "pageSources": [], "clipping": null }