Visit Bend’s tilted letters

The Downtown file, the notched construction. The same narrow letters and notched E as the bureau roundel, with a capital N.

Read at medium confidence from 107 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

1.048 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

0.995 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

0.491 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

0.386 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.

• Vintage Bend profile rendering 0.590 — related letterforms, clearly redrawn
• Deschutes Brewery, Born in Bend 0.554 — related letterforms, clearly redrawn
• City of Bend Neighborhoods, 2023 0.532 — related letterforms, clearly redrawn

Least like it: Bend Rubber Stamp & Printing, at 0.152.

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.

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