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  "id": "visitbend-2014-logo",
  "title": "Visit Bend changes the letter, 2014",
  "publisher": "Visit Bend",
  "sourceClass": "primary",
  "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140317200446im_/http://www.visitbend.com/blog/wp-content/themes/VisitBend2014/images/visitbend-2013-logo.png?v=1",
  "accessedOn": "2026-09-14",
  "notes": "Dates Visit Bend’s move from the arched-n roundel to the capital-N drawing to no later than March 2014.",
  "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/visitbend-2014-logo/",
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    "id": "visitbend-2014-logo",
    "kind": "variant",
    "date": "March 17, 2014",
    "summary": "Visit Bend’s orange roundel, with a capital N where the bureau’s own roundel had an arch.",
    "findings": [
      "Visit Bend carries the capital-N drawing by 17 March 2014, having carried the arched-n roundel from 2001.",
      "Every other character matches the bureau’s roundel: narrow letters clear of the ring, notched E and notched B at the same height.",
      "The file name says 2013; the archive’s earliest capture of these bytes says March 2014. The name is not a date."
    ],
    "limitations": [
      "A capture dates the file, not the change. Captures between 2008 and 2014 carry the roundel too small to read.",
      "No statement by Visit Bend about the change, or about where either drawing came from, has been found."
    ],
    "objects": [
      {
        "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2014_logo.png",
        "sha256": "e8903ebf6d367a187ea60a9f08ae4e9eca76702e6d918ad634eb364ba84a4241",
        "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140317200446im_/http://www.visitbend.com/blog/wp-content/themes/VisitBend2014/images/visitbend-2013-logo.png?v=1",
        "accessedOn": "2026-09-14",
        "role": "Received source bytes"
      }
    ],
    "images": [
      {
        "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2014_logo.png",
        "page": null,
        "box": null,
        "title": "Visit Bend’s orange roundel in March 2014, with a capital N.",
        "rights": "Documentary reproduction of a third-party mark, retrieved from the Internet Archive. No project license or fabrication permission is granted.",
        "color": true,
        "width": 700,
        "render": "Source raster; no drawing reconstruction",
        "sha256": "e8903ebf6d367a187ea60a9f08ae4e9eca76702e6d918ad634eb364ba84a4241",
        "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2014_logo.png"
      }
    ],
    "family": "Visit Bend",
    "origin": "Web archive capture; the artwork’s creator and creation date are unverified.",
    "sourceIds": [],
    "review": {
      "status": "image-reviewed",
      "method": "The capture was re-fetched at the URL recorded here and its SHA-256 confirmed against the filed bytes; the image was rendered and read at its own resolution.",
      "reviewedOn": "2026-09-14"
    }
  },
  "measurement": [
    {
      "id": "visitbend-2014-logo",
      "label": "Visit Bend’s capital N, 2014",
      "recordId": "visitbend-2014-logo",
      "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": "high",
      "readAt": 67.7,
      "readAtBasis": "an upper bound: this drawing's letters run into its ring, and no cut separates them",
      "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": 1.014
        },
        {
          "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": 0.984
        },
        {
          "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": 0.3508
        },
        {
          "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": 0.2987
        }
      ],
      "nearest": [
        {
          "id": "visit-bend-2022",
          "label": "Visit Bend, 2022",
          "iou": 0.3381,
          "reading": "different drawings",
          "href": "/archive/visit-bend-2022/"
        },
        {
          "id": "city-mark-2026",
          "label": "The City of Bend's current mark",
          "iou": 0.3318,
          "reading": "different drawings",
          "href": "/archive/city-mark-2026/"
        },
        {
          "id": "deschutes-born-in-bend",
          "label": "Deschutes Brewery, Born in Bend",
          "iou": 0.3274,
          "reading": "different drawings",
          "href": "/archive/deschutes-born-in-bend/"
        }
      ],
      "furthest": {
        "id": "bb-1949-08-24-12",
        "label": "Bulletin business directory, August 1949",
        "iou": 0.1831,
        "href": "/archive/bb-1949-08-24-12/"
      },
      "ties": [
        {
          "from": "dbba-2006-bug",
          "to": "visitbend-2014-logo",
          "kind": "hypothesis",
          "label": "Visit Bend takes the commercial file?",
          "basis": "Visit Bend carried the arched-n roundel from 2001 to at least 2008 and the capital-N drawing by March 2014. Every character of its 2014 roundel matches the file Downtown Bend held in 2006, and the bureau has never published a statement about either drawing.",
          "test": "Visit Bend’s own answer to who drew the mark it adopted, and the artwork file behind the 2014 site theme. The captures between 2008 and 2014 carry the roundel too small to read, so the web cannot close this on its own.",
          "cites": []
        }
      ],
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      "control": 0.975
    }
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  "appearanceLeads": [],
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    "id": "visitbend-2014-logo",
    "title": "Visit Bend changes the letter, 2014",
    "intro": "The bureau that carried the arched-n roundel from 2001 is carrying the capital-N drawing by March 2014.",
    "body": [
      "An orange roundel beside BEND OREGON and the line IT’S WHERE YOU GO TO PLAY. The construction is the same as the roundel Visit Bend used from 2001: narrow letters clear of the ring, a notched E and a notched B at the same height. The third letter is not. It is a capital N with a diagonal.",
      "The file is named for 2013 and the earliest capture carrying these bytes is 17 March 2014. Between the bureau’s 2005 to 2008 theme and this file, Visit Bend moved from one drawing to the other; the captures in between do not resolve the roundel, so the change is bracketed rather than dated."
    ],
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      "visitbend-2003-header",
      "dbba-2006-bug",
      "visit-bend-2022"
    ],
    "date": "March 17, 2014",
    "collection": "emblems",
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        "caption": "Visit Bend’s orange roundel in March 2014, with a capital N.",
        "alt": "An orange ring enclosing the word BEND in narrow letters, the third a capital N, beside the words BEND OREGON.",
        "credit": "Visit Bend · retrieved from the Internet Archive",
        "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140317200446im_/http://www.visitbend.com/blog/wp-content/themes/VisitBend2014/images/visitbend-2013-logo.png?v=1",
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      }
    ],
    "publication": "Visit Bend",
    "galleryTitle": "The capital N arrives, 2014",
    "galleryDescription": "The bureau’s own roundel had an arch. By 2014 Visit Bend is using the capital-N file."
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      "title": "Visit Bend’s orange roundel in March 2014, with a capital N.",
      "rights": "Visit Bend · retrieved from the Internet Archive",
      "derivation": "Cut from archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2014_logo.png; display source archive/online-research/2026-09-14-lineage-captures/vb2014_logo.png: the full 384×92 px page. Converted to color WebP at 384 px wide, quality 82. Context thumbnail; open the source record for full-resolution reading."
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