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The Downtown Bend badge, in black
Savage Skye Design · September 11, 2026
In the story: 8. Carrying it forward, since 2022.
A higher-resolution, monochrome rendering of the Downtown Bend badge, found on a design studio's portfolio. Kept as a reference so the badge can be measured at a size the filed green version does not reach.
The association's badge is already filed here from its own green artwork. This is the same badge rendered in black at about four times the resolution, which is the whole reason it is kept: a measurement is only as good as the picture it is taken from, and a drawing read at 1,484 pixels says things a drawing read at 300 cannot.
A portfolio appearance is evidence that a studio displayed the badge. It is not a sole-authorship claim, and it is not a reason to overwrite the attribution the association's own commission record carries. This project files it as a reference for that reason and makes no claim about who drew what.
It is not a documented appearance of the emblem either. Nobody put this on a window or a door; it is a second rendering of a mark already in the collection, which is what the references row on the board is for.
Measured
Read at high confidence from 739 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
- 0.999 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
- 0.522 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
- 0.523 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.
- Downtown Bend Business Association badge, 2018 0.900 — very close; the same drawing, or one traced from it
- Downtown Bend gold roundel 0.791 — a family resemblance, not the same cut
- Deschutes Historical Museum, 2012 0.789 — a family resemblance, not the same cut
Least like it: Bulletin business directory, August 1949, at 0.188.
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.
Compare this drawing with another · The board · How the drawings were measured