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Visit Bend changes the letter, 2014
Visit Bend · March 17, 2014
In the story: 7. They got there, 2011–2021.
The bureau that carried the arched-n roundel from 2001 is carrying the capital-N drawing by March 2014.
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.
Measured
The Downtown file, the notched construction. The same narrow letters and notched E as the bureau roundel, with a capital N.
Read at high confidence from 68 px of letter, which is an upper bound: this drawing's letters run into its ring, and no cut separates them.
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
- 1.014 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
- 0.984 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
- 0.351 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
- 0.299 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.
- Visit Bend, 2022 0.338 — different drawings
- The City of Bend's current mark 0.332 — different drawings
- Deschutes Brewery, Born in Bend 0.327 — different drawings
Least like it: Bulletin business directory, August 1949, at 0.183.
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.
Ties touching this drawing, each in the class of evidence it has:
- A question Visit Bend takes the commercial file?. 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. What would settle it: 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.
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